The war in Ukraine shows us the importance of maintaining the ability to educate and train (new) military personnel in time of war. The Armed Forces of Ukraine (UA) have a robust online system that is a vital part of their educational system. For more than 10 years the Norwegian Defence University College (NDUC) and NATO Defence Education Enhancement Program (DEEP) have worked together with the National Defence University of Ukraine named after Ivan Chernyakhovskyi (NDUU) to establish a resilient UA online learning system.

The efficiency of the UKR ADL system was proven during annual evaluation visits (2020 and 2021) conducted online during the COVID lockdown. Of importance is to stress the UKR input as far as the development of the NATO DEEP Strategy for Distance Learning Support is concerned. So, it means that this system has already been proven under pandemic conditions and now in the time of war. 

From September 2013 to February 2023, total 145 ADL-focused NATO DEEP events were conducted, involving 1800+ Ukrainian participants. Such formats were introduced as postgraduate studies "e-Teacher and e-Instructor within a new learning environment caused by COVID-19", e-Instructor Certification Program, and dedicated projects: Computer Adaptive Language Testing - CALT, translation of the NATO and Norwegian ADL courses into Ukrainian, involving SMEs from UKR (i.e. Cyber Defence Awareness - CDA), and translation of the book "Modernizing Learning" into Ukrainian.

This tutorial will tell the story on how NDUC, NATO DEEP and NDUU for several years have planned and executed the project of establishing this vital capability for Ukraine. Furthermore, the tutorial will cover the strategy applied to reach these goals, courses and training needed to get a resilient online learning system and the technical solution and security aspects. How the online learning system is used in war to enhance military capability and how Ukraine has cooperated with international partners will be outlined during the presentation. The online system will also be presented and at the end NDUC, NATO DEEP and NDUC will cover lessons learned and recommendations from a long-time cooperation process, also introducing innovative solutions, based on XR/AI technologies. 

Keywords
ADVANCED DISTRIBUTED LEARNING, LEARNING TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS, ONLINE LEARNING, SECURITY