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NATO DEFENSE COLLEGE
“This Technology is Not What You’re Looking For”
How to Better Use Technology to Educate for the Unknown.
Dr. Guillaume LASCONJARIAS NATO Defense College, Rome [email protected]
KCIS, 13 – 15 June 2016
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Transformation and Network Centric Warfare
What We Imagined
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Insurgencies, Guerrillas and Hybrid threats
What We Got
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What we observe? “Years of persistent conflict, adaptive enemies, decentralized operations that push both responsibility and risk to the edge of our operational formations, decreased resources, increased mission requirements and exponential technological change”
New challenges - Think - Educate - Train - Exercise
Create Leaders
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Technology is a given
Higher Education in distress
« Y and Z » generation
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n The military is not immune to these debates n PME is an outcome-based system: mission is to educate the
personnel to better understand an ever challenging and fast-evolving environment, in a comprehensive manner and with the necessary intellectual agility to act decisively
n However, PME has to contribute to cuts in the defence expenditures
n In a money-driven environment, how can we identify the right educational tools – apart from the fashionable trends?
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“Although no military can claim to be modern and capable in today’s environment without the human capital investment required to use it effectively, education is often a step child in budget drills and does not receive the sustained investment, recapitalization, growth and refresh rate that is required to keep pace with the changes in how education is delivered and the pace of changes in science and technology that underlie military preparedness”
Grant Hammond, 2015
Paradox of today’s militaries
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- Advanced Distance Learning ensures
access to high-quality education, training, and job support, tailored to individual needs and delivered on-demand anytime and anywhere
- Building a large community of e-learners, through huge enrollments (MOOC median= 33,000 students)
- Cost-effectiveness: reducing time and money spent on education
Good (and not so good) reasons to use technology
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n Investment in ADL require a significant resource commitment
n ADL = “One size fits all” Vs. learner-centric approach
n Quality of the programme n Maintenance, investment, updating = closer link to
academia and research
Investment in ADL
Case Study: UCL London
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n Focus on the « how » rather than on the « what » Ø Intelligent Tutoring Systems Ø Encourage and empower social
learning
n Develop new innovative ways to learn: Ø « Serious » games Ø Virtual Worlds Ø Online Gaming
So, what do we do?
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n Adaptation means: Ø Changing the way we see the world… Ø … and changing our organizations in
return
Some remarks
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