these trainers were capable of running the entire programme unassisted, enabling the Ministry to take over this programme. On 17 November, representatives of the MoI, together with a Mission representative, held a joint presentation at the Second Western Balkan and Serbian Moodle Moot conference, organized in Novi Sad by the Serbian and Croatian Moodle Communities. The Conference gathered experts from the region who shared their experiences in using e-learning and integrating this type of learning with other learning methodologies. By the end of 2012, the Mission had organized and funded training for a total of 47 Moodle Course Designers, 16 Moodle Administrators, and five Trainers of Trainers. Using resources generated through this process, the MoI delivered 2 e-pilot training courses in 2012 for more than 100 participants across the Ministry, and a number of new training courses were underway. On 28-29 June, a seminar on the “Integration of the Interactive Library in Police Training” was held at the newly refurbished library of the Basic Police Training Centre in Sremska Kamenica. The Mission organized the event and facilitated the participation of an expert from the Swedish National Police Academy. The seminar gathered 14 national police trainers and course managers expected to utilize the new library resources in the basic training of police cadets as well as in the professional development of serving police officers. The newly established information library was the result of a bilateral project funded by the Norwegian Government. The initial development of the project was supported by the Mission. The Mission complemented this bilateral project by enhancing the library staff capacities through a series of seminars and a study visit to the Swedish National Police Academy Library. Following this last seminar in June, the modern library was expected to support networking of the Serbian police training institutions with other professional libraries and enable the police cadets to learn interactively while developing their problem-solving skills. These skills would later be transferred to their operational police work. On 3 August, the interactive information centre and the library were formally inaugurated at the Basic Police Training Centre in Sremska Kamenica in the presence of senior MoI and Mission officials. The Mission provided the library with several hundred books on law enforcement, criminal law, forensics, human rights, ethics and other topics and it allowed online access to the national virtual library and worldwide library resources. In addition to renovating the library, the Mission had also provided equipment to the Curriculum Development Unit of the Basic Police Training Centre. With the aim of supporting the Police Education Directorate's role of co-ordinator of the police training system within the Serbian MoI, the Mission organized four workshops in Belgrade in November and December, which focused on introducing training standards in the areas of specialized and in-service training as well as on effective training cycle management. Participants included training managers from the Police Education Directorate as well as Police Training Co-ordinators from all 27 regional police districts in Serbia. The workshops also aimed at identifying the areas in which further capacity was needed in order to have a well-managed and co-ordinated system of police training within the MoI. The workshops, each gathering around 30 training professionals from the MoI, were facilitated by two national experts in adult learning and training management and development. The workshops focused on standards needed as well as processes through which these standards are supervised and evaluated. Defined standards of training would enable the MoI to assure the quality of the police training cycle, consisting of training needs analysis, development of curricula, selection of participants and trainers, assessment of training efficiency, monitoring and evaluation. The workshops also enabled the regional and central level training managers to discuss their respective roles within the training cycle and to develop tools that would unify the efforts of all concerned to build a functioning and effective training system for all employees of the Ministry. 80

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