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Defense Education Pedagogy
01 Jul 2027 -
31 Jul 2027
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Defense Education Pedagogy is an online course aimed at faculty working in institutions that have partnerships with the Perry Center. The workshop is held once a week over four weeks and covers topics of interest to those working in professional military education while allowing participants to share their research. There are four focus areas for the workshop:

  • Setting objectives and evaluations
  • Exercises and experiential learning
  • Teaching writing as a tool for military-scholars
  • Current research in the region

The workshop will draw speakers from the different colleges at the National Defense University, United States universities, senior service colleges, and the service academies. Some of the topics that will be discussed are:

  • Introduction to course design and evaluation
  • Innovative ideas in student evaluation
  • Introduction to wargame design
  • Writing and the military scholar
  • Teaching research and writing
  • Effective online teaching
  • The future of professional military education

IMPORTANT DATES

DOCUMENTS / LINKS

COURSE PARTICIPATION IS BY INVITATION ONLY
Virtual Course Dates:
01 Jul 2027 -
31 Jul 2027

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This workshop is designed to support the community of security and defense professionals in the Americas in pursuing collaborative approaches to mutual opportunities and challenges by providing an academic forum designed for people in this career track, strengthening their educational offering, while demonstrating the unique value of a formal partnership with the Perry Center. This will also enhance the capacity of partner institutions to train their security and defense forces.

ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS

DEP is a virtual, ‘by invitation‘ course for military and police officers and civilians engaged in educational activities including course administration, delivery, and design.

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This course is conducted in Spanish. Non-native speakers must demonstrate the ability to speak and write in Spanish at a bilingual level prior to acceptance and enrollment.

COURSE FACULTY

Arturo Sotomayor
Dr. Arturo Sotomayor
Course Coordinator
William J. Perry Center