Adult Learning
iFEST 2021
iFEST 2021 Online Conference Mark your calendars for 31 August – 2 September to join us virtually for iFEST 2021. A year of dramatic shifts in online education and training have made iFEST 2021 a must-participate conference for the distributed learning community. iFEST brings together...
International Fellows from the U.S. Army War College Visit the Center
On April 1, 2022, DKI APCSS hosted 40 international officers from the U.S Army War College’s International Fellows Program. Ranging from lieutenant colonel to brigadier general, the Fellows were hand-selected from the Chief of Staff of the Army to participate in a 10-month, in-resident course...

International Innovations in the Classroom @ I/ITSEC 2018
By Gheorghe (Gigi) Roman, ADL Colonel (USAF) Timothy Dreifke, Commandant of the NATO School Oberammergau (NSO), was invited to take part in the Signature Event Panel of the International Innovations in the Classroom at the annual Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education...

International Innovations in the Classroom @ I/ITSEC 2018
By Gheorghe (Gigi) Roman, ADL Colonel (USAF) Timothy Dreifke, Commandant of the NATO School Oberammergau (NSO), was invited to take part in the Signature Event Panel of the International Innovations in the Classroom at the annual Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education...
IPOC 22-1 Motivates Fellows to Improve Regional Security
Understanding the complexity of the Indo-Pacific region was the focus of the recent Indo-Pacific Orientation Course recently held at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) in Honolulu, HI. During the 5-day course, 127 military and civilian security...
Marshall Center Alumni Programs Offers 20 Scholarships for 2019
By Christine June Public Affairs Office George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Sept. 13, 2018) – The Marshall Center’s Alumni Programs Office is now accepting applications for the 2019 Alumni Scholars Program. “This program offers...
Marshall Center Course Teaches Diplomats Nuances of the English Language
By Christine June Public Affairs Office George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany – Erta Dunga’s everyday job is to help her country, the Republic of Albania, build relationships with neighboring countries, to include the Western Balkans and...
Marshall Center’s Faculty Roundtable Addresses Today’s Security Trends, Threats
By Christine June Public Affairs Office George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany – The Faculty Roundtable is one of the ways that the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center here is able to...
NATO Design and Innovation Courses
One of the newest addition to the NATO School Oberammergau course catalog just completed with the first iteration of the NATO Design and Innovation Basic Course. This course have been, conducted in a 'flipped classroom' adult learning configuration over five days providing foundational...
NATO Joint Advanced Distributed Learning Online Course Catalog 2019
NATO Joint Advanced Distributed Learning has published the Online Course Catalog 2019 and this isavailable for download on JADL and on GlobalNET here.
NATO Online Course catalog 2020
This catalogue captures the current course list available to NATO, NATO nations and partners. Since this list changes frequently, readers are encouraged to visit the Joint Advanced Distributed Learning (JADL) website at https://jadl.act.nato.int for the most current listings. The courses...
NSO ADL Team @ iFest2020
The National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA), in collaboration with the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, hosted iFEST 2020 onlline 17-19 August 2020. Attendees from the military, government, industry, and academia participated in the three-day symposium focused on...
NSO GRADUATES WIN NATO E-LEARNING SHOWCASE DURING ACT FORUM
The showcase of the 13th Annual e-Learning Forum, hosted by Joint Advanced Distributed Learning, Allied Command Transformation (ACT) in September 2018 in Norfolk, Virginia, was won by NATO School Oberammergau (NSO) M7-126 alumni. During the showcase, ADL teams from several...
Partnership for Peace Consortium (PfPC) Call for Papers!
The Partnership for Peace Consortium has issued a call for article submissions for the quarterly academic journal "Connections". Please see below for details on themes and submission dates: NATO's adaptation to new challenges, Open Continuously Hybrid Warfare, Deadline: 10 December...
Perry Award 2016: Call for Nominations
Today, the Perry Center announced a call for nominations for the 2016 William J. Perry Award for Excellence in Security and Defense Education. Nominators from around the world are asked to submit the names of individuals and institutions advancing security and defense education in the Americas...
Perry Center Concludes CTOC and HR/ROL Courses
June 29, 2016 Last week, the Perry Center celebrated the graduation of students participating in its Combating Transnational Organized Crime and Illicit Networks in the Americas (CTOC) and Strategic Implications of Human Rights and the Rule of Law (HR/ROL) courses. Attended by fifty-six...
Perry Center Explores Solutions to Complex Threats in New Academic Course
July 15, 2016 More than 30 students from 10 Latin American countries are attending a new academic course at the William J. Perry Center on how to handle complex security threats. The course, Defense Policy and Complex Threats (DPCT), is directed by Dr. Luis Bitencourt and Professor...
Perry Center professor briefs the OAS
Perry Center professor Pat Paterson presented to the Committee on Hemispheric Security (CHS) at the Organization of American States (OAS). Professor Paterson spoke about the impact of organized crime at a special session to address security concerns of the small island states of the Caribbean...
Perry Center Professor Leads VTC Session on Security and Defense
On April 25th,Perry Center Professor Boris Saavedra conducted a VTC in support of CAEN‘s (Center for Higher National Studies) CEDEYAC course. With approximately 45 participants, Professor Saavedra discussed the conceptual framework of security and defense in the Western Hemisphere, followed by...
Perry Center provides VTC lecture to CEDEYAC course
On October 10, Dr. Luis Bitencourt lectured via VTC on “Challenges for Defense Governance in a Complex and Rapidly Changing World” to approximately 25 students of thePeruvian Navy’s CEDEYAC (Curso de Dirección Estratégica para la Defensa y Administracián de Crisis) course. Dr. Bitencourt...