USING E-LEARNING TECHNOLOGY AS A SUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY
USING E-LEARNING TECHNOLOGY AS A SUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY

Summary/Abstract: Besides being a modern trend, e-learning technology is a necessity of the knowledge-based society in which learning, as an organizational subsequent process, as well as the educational activities have new characteristics, much closer to the needs of individuals, groups or organizations, public and private. The staff involved in the activities specific to critical infrastructure, having high operational and managerial responsibilities in a continuously changing social-technical environment primarily due to the evolution of the IT factor that unprecedentedly galvanizes the interdependencies in the critical infrastructure sectors, represent in this framework a distinct professional community, with very diverse formation needs throughout their life. Given the widely dispersed territorial disposition of the places where this category of personnel performs its daily activities, this paper’s authors argue that the educational approaches based on e-learning represent a vector of success in making more efficient some constraints such as time and the resources necessary for maintaining and upgrading certain necessary essential competences. Taking the best educational practice existing in this field as reference points, a conceptual model for the acquisition of knowledge in the field is drawn up and a case study regarding the current stage of e-learning technology is presented as it is used in one of the institutions traditionally organizing postgraduate courses devoted to the management of critical infrastructure protection. In accordance with the central theme of the conference, the general objective of the present scientific approach is to demonstrate the sustainability of the e-learning solution in the field and,implicitly, to disseminate the educational practice of the Land Forces Academy mainly to other institutions within the system of defence, public order and national security.

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