Nick Barker, Project Manager, at LINE gives his personal slant on the launch of an innovative iPad learning programme for the Royal Artillery.
I’d just delivered 20 iPads to the Royal School of Artillery at Larkhill Camp in Wiltshire. On each of these was an app which LINE had jointly developed with Major Rich Gill of the Army’s Training Development Branch.
I felt a double helping of anticipation that morning. First there was the fact that a group of soldiers were about to use our iPad version of their Fire Control Orders training for the first time as part of user trials – What would they think? Would they be engaged with it? Would they really love it? Or would they want to stick it up against a wall and fire a salvo from a 105mm Light Gun through its beautiful 9.7 inch touch screen?
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