Themes
This years Security & Defence Learning Forum will focus on the following key topics:
- Change, Innovate, Learn
- The Innovation Imperative
- Security-related innovation for training
- New challenges, new skills
- Developing new solutions to overcome new threats
- Education or training?
- Learning how to learn
- New learning for the old guard
- Training the new trainers
- Work, Learning and Life Balance
- Flexible, Relevant and Authentic Pedagogical Approaches
- Re-Thinking Assessment, Evaluation and Qualifications
- Best Practice – What Worked Today Might not Tomorrow
- The Role of the Learner and the Facilitator (e.g. Flipped Learning)
- Informal Professional Development
- Leadership and Talent Strategies to Drive Innovation
- Rapid, Cost Effective Responses to Change
- Accepting the Challenge of Failure
- Tools to Transform Content and Practice
- Publishing, but not as We Know It
- The Power of Video and the Moving Image
- Managing an Information Mass
- SoLoMo – Social, Local, and Mobile
- Developing skills for a digitised world
- Language Learning for the Global Interconnected World
- Collaborative Content Inspired by Collaborative Practice
- The Open Movement and the Security Community
- Adapting Content for New and Future Practices
- The Creative Classroom in the security context
- Web 3.0 – What Does This Mean in Reality?
- Using Learner Created Content
- Content Strategies to Transform Practice
- Improving Quality Whilst Reducing Costs
- Standards and Regulations
- New pedagogies and learning methods
- Which Environment, What Media?
- Video – The New Language of Learning
- Engaging with Games and Augmented Reality
- The Social Networking Effect
- Making the Most of ‘Mobile’
- What Works in the Cloud?
- Should we fear the Cloud?
- Creating a Learner Centred Environment
- Adapting to New and Future Media
- The role of the private sector
- Multinational and multi-sectoral collaborative environments
- Managing Learning Environments
- Immersive Learning – What Is Working and What Isn't
- The New Lust for Learning – what it means for recruits and employers
- Informal Learning Stimulates Motivation
- Youth Mobility
- Workforce Enablement
- Cross Generational Engagement
- Pre-training learning packages
- Continuous in-service
- The expansion of game-based learning
- Supporting Performance at Work
- Assessment and monitoring
- Education for all
- Technology Focus
- Training needs and how technology can help
- What is in the pipeline
- Technology and future cost-benefit analysis
- Technology and the learning mind
To submit a proposal on any of these subjects or to suggest another subject for discussion, please contact Dr. Yan St-Pierre at yan.st-pierre@newsecurityfoundation.org