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Seventh Annual IAFIE Conference Australia and Intelligence Education. Becky Mitchell Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (PICT) Macquarie University, Sydney. 55% Cheesehead, 45% Aussie. Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (PICT) Sydney, Australia. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Seventh Annual IAFIE Conference
Australia and Intelligence Education
Becky MitchellCentre for Policing,
Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (PICT)
Macquarie University, Sydney
55% Cheesehead, 45% Aussie
Centre for Policing, Intelligence
and Counter Terrorism (PICT)Sydney, Australia
•Began in 2005•First classes offered in Semester 2, 2006
Australian context
• Playing field smaller, but many similar strategic goals
• National Security Statement of Dec 2008 changed intelligence education approach
Australian Qualifications FrameworkFocuses on:
• academic standards
• learning outcomes/graduate capabilities
• quality of “teaching and learning”
Challenges
• Intelligence education lacks a common core curriculum
• Staying relevant in rapidly evolving threat environment
Challenges
• Publish or perish
• Professional experience vs. academic credentials of staff
Trend – Blended Learning
Trend – Blended Learning
• significant advantage of a blended program is the ability to cater for students’ individual needs
• caters for professionals, full time workers (military deployments, etc) and other adult students
Trend - Globablization of Learning
Trend – Outreach
• Council for Asian Transnational Threat Research (CATR)
• International liaisons
Trend/Concern
• Plagiarism
• Blurred concept of “authorship”