Themes

This years Security & Defence Learning Forum will focus on the following key topics:

1.  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

    

2.  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

    

3.  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

    

4.  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

    

5.  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