Defence E-learning

Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Campus was designed by a pan-CAF partnership as part of the Individual Training and Education Modernization Initiative launched by the Armed Forces Council in 2010. The Commander of the Canadian Defence Academy leads the initiative under the auspices of the Chief of Military Personnel as the Functional Authority for Individual Training and Education.

The CAF Campus Operational Framework serves as the blueprint for CAF Campus, which is a performance-oriented learning architecture that is agile, integrated and responsive to the contemporary operating environment and CAF institutional requirements.  It has been designed to prevent strategic gaps and deficiencies and move the current Individual Training and Education system into the future and ensure that individuals are provided with the competencies required to maintain operational readiness. 

Displacing the current stovepiped approach, CAF Campus will enable the strategic synchronization of plans, opportunities and investments to improve Individual Training and Education while reducing the burden on personnel and resources.  Innovative approaches that fuse modern methodologies with the latest technology-enabled Individual Training and Education solutions will accelerate learning, improve retention, encourage critical thinking, and enable easy access to realistic Individual Training and Education at the point-of-need.

CAF Campus will modernize the Individual Training and Education system in three domains:

1. Training Authority/Designated Training Authority Capabilities will be enhanced to enable the application of appropriate instructional methodologies to the development and delivery of learning content;
2. Common Capabilities will be centrally provided by Canadian Defence Academy Headquarter to avoid redundancy and provide access to essential capabilities, including point-of-need Individual Training and Education as well as pan-CAF collaboration to support all Individual Training and Education phases with access to a greater spectrum of best practices and talent than any Training Authority/Designated Training Authority could achieve on its own; and
3. Governance will occur through the Professional Development Council, informed by a comprehensive Performance Management Framework and mobilizing all four pillars of the Canadian Armed Forces Professional Development System with a particular emphasis on leveraging prior learning and integrating Individual Training and Education with collective and joint training.

Overall, CAF Campus represents a fundamental shift from the traditional Individual Training and Education paradigm and is the first systemic rationalization of the Individual Training and Education system in the CAF’s history.  It will resolve long-standing concerns raised by the leadership, various reviews, the Individual Training and Education community and CAF members.