Enhancing Training Through In-House Digital Media Capability

Nigel Doyle | Multimedia Specialist Operations Support, Royal Australian Navy


Navy Training has an embedded multimedia development team tasked specifically to produce digital media to support training.

The team represents a mature capability and delivers quality multimedia content to courses across Navy.

Navy Training’s digital media capability did not happen by accident. We look at the long-term strategy which has put Navy in the right place to leverage online delivery now and into the future.

We also share some tips and tricks we have learned on how to succeed in delivering video and interactive content to trainees in a large and tightly governed organisation.


KEY TAKEAWAYS
  1. Empower your people to initiate innovative solutions.
  2. In 2022, VR does not have to cost the earth. 
  3. Start with the end in mind.

About Nigel

Nigel Doyle comes from a computer science background and has spent most of his career partnering with training developers and subject matter experts to implement e-learning solutions. He loves the collaborative nature of his job, as well as the buzz of always working with new technology. Nigel’s present role as senior multimedia specialist with Navy is tremendously varied, and sees him working on design and construction of interactive training content, as well as scriptwriting and training video production. Nigel’s latest major project has been the delivery of an effective and cost-efficient online solution which (virtually) brings young marine engineering trainees into complex spaces on board ships without the difficulties of real-world physical ship access.