GAC Corporate Academy, Moodle and ISO: Partnering for Corporate Learning Excellence

The GAC Group is a global shipping, logistics and marine service provider, based in the UAE and serving customers in more than 300 offices and 40 countries around the world. Bengt Lindwall , the Group founder, established GAC in 1956 on the basis of what he called the “GAC Spirit”. This was, and continues to be, a corporate culture focusing on excellence in our relationships between partners, employees and customers.
The GAC Spirit establishes that the biggest asset of the company is its people, but with a workforce of more than 10,000 people spread around the world, GAC was presented with a unique set of learning and development opportunities. GAC Corporate Academy (GCA) was established in 2007 to achieve the company’s l earning and growth objectives.
In seven years, GCA has come a long way.
As a pioneer in eLearning- based corporate academies, GCA was faced with the challenge of developing an effective corporate learning programme from scratch.
This included:
• Aligning and continuously evolving the learning and development programme with Group strategy.
• Measuring the contribution of learning programmes to improved work performance.
•The use of social constructivism in a corporate environment to establish an effective

Source: GAC