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e-MDP …… AN ONLINE TRAINING SOL
e-MDP …… AN ONLINE TRAINING SOLUTION FOR OFB OFFICERS
INTRODUCTION
This is a professional documentation learning has existed for a few decades;
of an innovative model of online training, but the pandemic-driven closure,
introduced by the National Academy of brought its true potential in sharp focus
Defence Production (NADP), Ordnance and therefore accelerated its acceptance
Factory Board, Department of Defence as a dominant technological solution.
Production, for providing training
solution to OFB officers. COVID-19 NADP is the apex training institution
pandemic has caused disruption and under Ordnance Factory Board,
devastation at a scale unprecedented in mandated with the responsibility of
the modern history of mankind. There providing training to almost sixteen
was no prevention against the pandemic hundred OFB officers. Normally training
in the beginning and social and physical courses conducted by NADP are
distancing and hygiene protocols were conventional instructor-led class room
the only ways to combat the menace. programmes. When the institution was
Hence like many other countries, India locked down, the Annual Training
was also locked down. Along with all Calendar for the year 2020-2021,
such academic, coaching and training designed on traditional method, became
institutions, NADP was also shut down. redundant. There was a real threat that
the entire training year would be a
But addressing the training needs of washout. Moreover, there were 34
officers is a permanent factor in Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS)
employee engagement, motivation and probationary officers, who had joined
enhancement of job performance. This NADP after their recruitment through
crisis also provided the opportunity to Indian Engineering Services/Central Civil
human ingenuity to create new solutions Services, who also had to be imparted
or apply existing solutions in innovative with 52 weeks of induction training.
ways to overcome the extant problem.
Thus the pandemic drove the whole This crisis scenario was converted
world to become a world of 'Remote into a challenge by NADP for finding an
Everything'. Remote working became appropriate solution. Appropriate,
the new norm and similarly remote because, e-learning has to be
learning became the new normal. The customised to fit into the capabilities of
technological basis of remote learning is the training institution (NADP) as well as
e-learning. E-learning as a medium of meet the training needs of the
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E Learning - Re-imagined, Re-designed
