Abstract:

In this paper we will present a case study on training the police educators and trainers from the educational sector of the Ministry of Interior in the Republic of Croatia (MUP RH) in use of educational technologies. Since 2014. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (FHSS) and MUP RH have a mutual cooperation agreement oriented at the implementation of educational technologies in the educational sector of MUP RH, especially in the Police Academy. Since 2015. MUP RH has a Learning Management System (LMS) based on Moodle when it was implemented and opened to all the educators and trainers in the educational sector of MUP RH. Staff from the E-learning Support Center of the FHSS (FHSS ESC) have held a large number of hands-on workshops for the teachers and educators on number of educational technology topics (digital content creation, LMS usage, instructional design, usage rights and licensing, accessibility, mobile learning) during the past five years. Since 2014. several hundred police officers and police trainees (students) have also undergone hands-on education on basic LMS usage. We will also present the issues and challenges that were met during the in-house online education and testing for the police officers, border guards and trainers physically dispersed all over the country.

Keywords:

Training, educators, e-learning, police, lifelong learning.