H808 - Core Activity - 1.2

Introducing Me....... Link OK so I can do it but I'll paste here as well.

Hi,

I'm Grant Kelly. I'm a Naval Officer by 'profession?' but am a training management specialist within the Engineering Branch. I've been in the Royal Navy for thirteen years and have been an instructor, training designer, Training Needs Analyst for new Warships, delivered Train The Trainer, managed instructors and faculties and served at sea and overseas a number of times. My most recent posting was to Iraq where I was Head of Training for the UK/US training team overseeing the rebuilding of the Iraqi Navy. I am presently serving at RAF Cosford near Telford as Head of the Joint Training development Team which among other things adjudicates over the Army, Navy and Air Force Training requirements for Air Engineering. In terms of E-learning experience I was the co-architect of a Moodle based blended learning solution to train Marine Engineers at HMS Sultan, but I never got to see the project through to fruition. So in many ways I have researched, deliberated, lobbied, cajoled and designed an overall approach but never actually delivered one. I am pretty evangelical when it comes to the modernising of training and learning. As such I organised a Modern Learning Symposium in 08' and am pushing the hierarchy of schools under my College to look at and engage with modernisation project. I am presently doing something similar at RAF Cosford. At Cosford I am the single point of contact for Raytheon as they undertake the Early Training Transformation Project as part of the wider Defence Training Review which aims to modernise the delivery of technical training. I am therefore being exposed to the 'Raytheon way' and some of the tools and processes they use in the analysis, data capture and design of learning and learning resources. One of the major roles I perform is to map and understand how the Raytheon way maps to the Defence System Approach to training and help manage the considerable changes taking place as a result. .

I also own a Franchised milkshake shop called Shakeaway in Canterbury. Its a long way from home in Portsmouth and even further from the job in Telford but provides me a very real, tangible commercial focus when I think about training and running a business. I also love working there!

Lastly, doing this module I hope to gain a better understanding of the E-learning environment at large, and will, funding and Her Majesty's Royal Navy permitting continue to the full Masters in order to back up the experience gained thus far as I am certain the MoD will be utilising e-learning a great deal more in the future.

Yours Aye,

Grant