Vision

The ED WG supports the development of defense and professional military education (PME) in the nations of the Partnership for Peace. Its efforts are framed within the context of NATO’s Partnership Action Plan for Defense Institution Building, its Education and Training for Defence Reform (EfR) Initiative and the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Top Ten Priorities for the Partnership for Peace.

The Working Group focuses on three elements of partner PME: (1) curricula that respond to the education and training needs of modern armed forces; (2) teaching and learning methods that match best practices in use in Western defense education and training institutions, and (3) faculty and institutional development and mentoring through sustained engagement over time.

In every case, the ED WG strives to respond to validated, demand-driven requirements in its areas of expertise and not on supply-driven availability of experts. At the same time, the ED WG will endeavor through dialogue and encouragement to influence partner educators in the direction of the following objectives.

Objectives of the ED WG

• Guide and mentor reforms in professional defense and military education, both in individual education institutions and in a defense-wide holistic approach to defense education and training
• Promote learner-centered education
• Promote and enable the innovative use of instructional technologies
• Create learning objectives which facilitate a depth of learning that can be readily applied through practice
• Assist in the development of assessments and action plans to employ these methods in support of quality academic programs at partner defense education and training institutions