Romania’s Military Training Revolution
E-Learning offers quick and efficient access to the newest information and knowledge,
effective methods of teaching, learning and evaluation, permanent instruction
and education. E-learning is, therefore, an alternative to permanent education
now and in the communication society of the future. An informational society can
only be built through research and investment projects, both in the field of IT and
in the field of education. The Romanian Army, like any other modern army, needs to
modernise its methods of teaching in order to reach the quality standards required
by the constitution and by its status as a member state of NATO and the EU. These
new standards call for conceiving, experimenting and implementing an Advanced
Distributed Learning system that can go together with classic education systems
and contribute to raising the quality of process of instruction for all militaries.
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Prove IT! Using evidence-based research to demonstrate e-learning effectiveness in police training environments
Back in 2004 when the Canadian Police Knowledge Network first
introduced e-learning as a means of conducting police training,
we met our fair share of skeptics. At that time, apart from a handful
of progressive organizations, we were working within a highly
conservative sector that was wholly immersed in traditional
training regimes. But to be fair, with a lack of truly compelling
evidence for how effective e-learning could be, we were asking
the police community to take a leap of faith. Though we’ve come
a long way since then, providing evidence that supports the elearning
model in this sector remains a central element of CPKN’s
strategic framework.
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Making Learning Real: technology, virtual space and best practice
These have been strange times indeed. For longer than I can remember, I can recall commentary
and blanket media coverage on the impact of change. For decades the truism
has been proclaimed that change is pervasive and unprecedented. Well, you wait for
ages, and then all the buses come at once! So just as I was planning the next round of innovative
project applications for creative learning and arranging coordination meetings
for a range of new learning initiatives, Eyjafjallajokull decided to remind us that we have
volcanoes nearby. And as the dust settled – or not as the case may be – Greece called
in the IMF, the euro wobbled and the deepest recession since the 1930s worked its way
through a panorama of disintegrating social and economic relationships.
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Training from crime scene to courtroom
Andrew Rosthorn talks to Scotland’s Assistant Chief Constable John Geates
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Understanding the threat to airline passengers
Do we really understand the complex dynamics
of terrorist threats? If not, how can we train
and respond effectively? In a report for the New
Security Foundation, supported by the Critical Infrastructure
Program of George Mason University,
Alexander Woodcock and John Dockery examine
the critical infrastructure surrounding the airline
passenger industry and show how a variety of
threats can expose unknown and unexpected vulnerabilities.
Modelling Airline Passenger Security
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September 03, 2010
Training from crime scene to courtroom
Andrew Rosthorn talks to Scotland’s Assistant Chief Constable John Geates

Police officers from all over the world now gather in the
great panelled drawing rooms at Tulliallan, to learn from
computerised “high fidelity immersive simulation systems”
how to tackle twenty-first century crises; train crashes, airline
hijacks, hostage negotiations and daunting exercises
known to specialists as “multi-agency child protection”.
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