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Seventh Annual IAFIE Conference Australia and Intelligence Education

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.

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Seventh Annual IAFIE Conference Australia and Intelligence Education

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  1. Seventh Annual IAFIE ConferenceAustralia and Intelligence Education Becky Mitchell Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (PICT) Macquarie University, Sydney

  2. 55% Cheesehead, 45% Aussie

  3. Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (PICT)Sydney, Australia • Began in 2005 • First classes offered in Semester 2, 2006

  4. Australian context • Playing field smaller, but many similar strategic goals • National Security Statement of Dec 2008 changed intelligence education approach

  5. Australian Qualifications Framework Focuses on: • academic standards • learning outcomes/graduate capabilities • quality of “teaching and learning”

  6. Challenges • Intelligence education lacks a common core curriculum • Staying relevant in rapidly evolving threat environment

  7. Challenges • Publish or perish • Professional experience vs. academic credentials of staff

  8. Trend – Blended Learning

  9. 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

  10. Trend - Globablization of Learning

  11. Trend – Outreach • Council for Asian Transnational Threat Research (CATR) • International liaisons

  12. Trend/Concern • Plagiarism • Blurred concept of “authorship”

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