«The corporate virtual Defence Campus (CVCDEF)»

Abstract

Ten years ago, the Defence Department began a project to unify all the existing e-learning systems in the armies and the navy. They are currently integrated in the Corporate Virtual Defence Campus (CVCDEF), which has used various e-learning platforms as a base and which since 2014 has been using by Moodle as the most widespread in the educational community and in Spanish universities. This talk will present the structure of the system to adapt to the organization, peculiarities and needs of the different Teaching Centers, Institutions and Units that need online training in the Armed Forces (FAS), as well as what is being done and how to work in the CVCDEF, ending with the presentation of the use of the Campus by the FAS Higher School, belonging to the Higher Center of National Defense Studies, as a reference center given its experience in e-learning.

Bio

José Luis Carballo Álvarez, Colonel of the Marine Corps, has a diploma in the General Staff of the Armed Forces and a diploma from the NATO Defense College in Rome. He has been a technical advisor in the cabinet of the Secretary General for Defense Policy, head of the Multilateral Relations section in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Commander of the Third Levant of the Marine Infantry. He has participated in different peacekeeping missions since 1995, exercising command of the Multinational Battalion of the European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2008. He is the current director of the Department of Virtual Education of the School of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.

José Carlos López Palomo is an Army Liutenant Colonel (Infantry), he has a diploma in Military Computing Science since 1994 and has taken several review courses as well as courses on Information Technology Security, teaching and online tutoring. He has held positions related to training and computer science as a teacher in different centres for six years; and as an analyst, programmer and database administrator of the Integrated Logistics Management System of the Army (SIGLE) for eight, actively participating in the creation, maintenance and updating of this system. Since 2007, he has been assigned to the General Department of Recruitment and Military Education as head of the Virtual Education Unit, being the functional director and responsible for the Corporate Virtual Defence Campus since the initial conception of the project, having also actively participated in the creation, development, maintenance and updating of this system.