Scoping the Future of Education in National Security and Beyond
War on the Rocks
War on the Rocks
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🗓️ 14 May 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
There's a revolution coming in education that promises to empower lifelong learners in the national security space. In the first of a series of special episodes, pick apart the technological, organizational, and -- most importantly -- cultural issues at play. What does it all boil down to? What kind of learning should count and how can you make sure it counts? To understand all this, Ryan spoke with Sae Schatz, the Director of the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative; retired Marine Corps Brigadier General Frank Kelley, vice president of Defense Acquisitions University; and Jason Tyzsko, the vice president of the Center for Education and Workforce at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the War on the Rocks podcast on strategy, defense, and foreign affairs. |
| 0:15.8 | My name is Ryan Evans, the CEO of War in the rocks. |
| 0:18.1 | This is the first of at least several episodes we're going to be doing on the subject of learning. |
| 0:22.0 | Why learning? Well, if you think about it learning |
| 0:24.0 | has always been at the root of the War on the Rocks project. Learning from |
| 0:27.1 | the experience, those who have walked the terrain we're trying to understand |
| 0:29.7 | whether they're scholars, service members, veterans, government officials, you get the idea. |
| 0:34.8 | And learning is changing. |
| 0:36.8 | There are structural and technological trends that are underway that might very well revolutionize |
| 0:40.1 | the way we learn, and not just a national security. |
| 0:43.0 | Imagine a learning record that travels with you from childhood or young adulthood |
| 0:47.0 | that you could use to show the world what you know, not just from formal classrooms, |
| 0:50.0 | but from courses you take online, periods of self-guided study, games, simulations, and just |
| 0:55.2 | plain life. |
| 0:56.5 | You know that your educational experience is more than just the formal accredited degrees |
| 1:00.2 | that you have earned. |
| 1:01.8 | So why shouldn't you leverage a learning record that |
| 1:03.6 | captures all this for professional game? And why shouldn't it travel with you |
| 1:06.9 | everywhere you go so you can show organizations and prospective employers what |
| 1:10.4 | you know and what you're good at? Whether that's the Air Force or Apple, Harvard or |
| 1:13.8 | HP. Imagine a future where soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines have detailed learning records |
| 1:19.4 | across institutions that go beyond the standard fit wrapper OER or OPR that includes in a structured and secure way, |
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