Defence & Security // The  International Forum on Technology Assisted Learning for Defence, Security and Emergency Services
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Organiser: THE NEW SECURITY FOUNDATION

Themes

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

  1. New threats and challenges
    • Emerging threats and challenges
    • The cyber threat – recent developments
    • The new information age - managing transparency and security
    • The pace of technological change: how can security training keep up?
    • Information security
    • Maritime security: anti-piracy training, protecting ports, ships and freight
    • Transport security: training to protect roads, rail, ports and airports
    • Threats to food and water
    • Border security and customs training
    • Natural disasters
    • Threats to health
    • Threats to education and learning
    • Security training for prisons, hospitals and schools
    • Coordinated ‘anarchy’ and threats to public order
    • The Open Society and the Surveillance Society: learning, liberty and values
  2.  Shifts in security learning culture
    • What does the next generation of learners and recruits expect?
    • New learning approaches and pedagogy
    • Motivation for learning
    • New assessment and evaluation approaches
    • Utilising crowd sourcing
    • Virtual mentoring and coaching
    • The future of educational and training publishing
    • Managing change
    • Security and transparency: security in a more open world
  3. New security learning environments
    • Social media / Web 2.0 / Web 3.0 / social networking
    • Virtual reality and real world security
    • Game-based learning and serious games
    • Developments in simulation
    • Point-of-need learning
    • The future classroom
    • Augmented reality: its implications and possibilities
    • Mobile learning – learning everywhere
    • Cloud computing
    • Personal learning environments
    • Into the future: what is possible?
  4. New developments in training
    • New technologies and their application
    • Developments in police training
    • Developments in military training
    • Learning and training in prisons
    • Budget cuts: how technology is supporting training
    • Future conflict and learning
    • Intelligence-gathering and analysis
    • Training and the private security sector
    • New content creation
    • Intelligent content and semantics
    • Video and security learning
    • Practical tips (webinars, rapid e-learning, digital pens, smartphones, flash etc)
    • The use of social media
    • New methods of evaluation
    • Training for transparency
    • Technology, training and ethics
    • Future training requirements
    • Future training technologies
  5. Innovation
    • Innovative solutions to training problems
    • Fostering innovation
    • Keeping up with the pace of change
    • Structures: how to grow security training innovation
    • Reducing ‘flash to bang’ time: from innovative idea to deployment
    • Sources of innovation
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  7. Improving Cooperation
    • Information and content sharing
    • Best practice
    • Standards
    • International, inter-service and cross-sectoral cooperation
    • Improving coordination and response
    • Joint training exercises
    • Humanitarian aid – working with NGOs
    • Disaster management and relief
    • Medical evacuation
    • Language Learning and Culture

 

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