21 August, 2009 – 12:24 pm
A common theme in a number of the investigations undertaken as part of Education.au’s Strategic ICT Advisory Service to the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations was the need to ensure that pre-service teachers were provided with plenty of opportunities to learn about and use ICT in terms of both skills and […]
18 August, 2009 – 3:51 pm
The ‘Towards a 21st Century National Software Infrastructure for Education‘ report from Education.au’s Strategic ICT Advisory Service for the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) makes a number of important points and recommendations focussed on bringing together and building on existing and planned initiatives.
It suggests that “the infrastructure should be focused on connecting […]
10 August, 2009 – 4:39 pm
Education.au has just released another of its reports produced for the Strategic ICT Advisory Service it’s providing to the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR)
The Annual Report on Emerging Technologies: Planning for Change report is the culmination of SICTAS’ investigative research program. It incorporates and extends the recommendations made […]
18 February, 2009 – 2:07 pm
Education.au is providing a Strategic ICT Advisory Service to the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The report on Collaboration in Teaching and Learning is the first public report from this service.
The report focuses on the information and communications technologies that enable collaborative learning to happen online and includes school education, vocational […]
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education.au has been doing some work with the Cunningham Library at ACER - the library manages ATED (Australian Thesaurus of Educational Descriptors). education.au has used ATED for some years as one of the thesauri it uses to catalogue content for the edna resource database. No thesaurus covers every eventuality, so we use a number to […]
22 February, 2008 – 11:05 am
It’s time to revisit my 2003 utopian vision for Australian education - that is, the idea of an interoperability framework and a ‘functional module bank’ for the education sector that I presented at the 2003 Adelaide educause conference. With discussion swishing around a digital education revolution it’s worth thinking about the kinds of insfrastructure we […]
6 September, 2007 – 3:07 pm
I have been involved in a consultation about the use of metadata in a new online service for the higher education sector. It’s been an interesting and challenging process (which is not over yet).
Although the consultation component is just about complete and we are soon to present our recommendations, in parallel we have been building the […]
12 September, 2006 – 2:22 pm
A briefing paper for the e-framework for education has just been released. The e-framework is a joint initiative of the UK’s JISC and the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). And an excellent initiative. An education.au educause paper in 2003 proposed something very similar - an interoperability framework for education and training.
Great to see […]
