The Defence Academy achieved success at the 33rd Ministry of Defence Sanctuary Awards on Tuesday 19 March, where they were awarded second place in the ‘Net Zero and Resource Efficiency’ category for the ‘Climate Change Awareness and Defence Resilience’ course.
The course has been developed by the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team for the Defence Capability Management School (DCMS).
Dave Tandy and Shane Kelly (TEL), joined by Wing Commander Simon Brackstone and Emily Brooke (Defence Capability Management School), attended the awards ceremony hosted at the Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth. The awards were presented by Rear Admiral Paul Beattie and Major General Richard Clements.
Ros Cameron (Climate Change and Sustainability, Skills and Culture), Training Requirements Authority for the course said:
“I turned to Defence Academy to make this material into an inspiring, interactive course. The close collaboration revealed superb professionalism, technical and artistic talent and above all, a deep interest and willingness to enliven complex subject matter. Their dedication to explaining the climate change challenge for defence was outstanding, so that our people can exploit the course and resources, to understand why and how we must become sustainable in every sense of the word.”
Dave Tandy (TEL e-Learning Design Team) commented:
“The team did a fantastic job of combining interactions, videos, animations, imagery and written content into five informative and engaging modules that are a credit to the hard work that went into writing and collating the content.”
The ‘Climate Change Awareness and Defence Resilience’ course can be accessed on the Defence Learning Environment (DLE).
The DCMS Climate Change and Sustainability Hub, which provides a variety of links and resources on all aspects of climate change and sustainability can also be accessed on the DLE.