The adoption of ADL is evolving rapidly throughout the e-learning community and is changing the way we create, deliver and manage learning content. The National Guard has developed a communications backbone with distributive training classrooms in all 50 states and territories to reach National Guard personnel where they live. The U.S. Military Services have already converted numerous courses to ADL and are undergoing a training revolution to provide the requisite knowledge and skills to personnel in their homes, classrooms, on Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and in operational environments around the world.

• Work closely with industry, government and academia to promote common, open, international specifications and standards that enable reuse and interoperability of learning content.
• Promote widespread collaboration that satisfies common needs.
• Enhance performance with emerging learning technologies.
• Promote a coordinated implementation process with incentives for organizational and cultural change.

• Providing implementation guidance for the design and development of efficient, cost-effective and global distributed learning.

• Encouraging collaboration regarding the practical application of learning technologies.

• Advancing the state-of-the-art in the science and technology associated with individual and collective education, training, performance and assessment.

• Providing global online forums that enable large-scale exchange of information, tools and resources through ADLNet.gov.