edna, digital education and me

Sunday Aug 10, 2008

Forum 7: New South Wales, July 30

New South Wales map from Wikimedia Commons

16 participants representing a range of schools and VET programs and functions from DET NSW - Centre for Learning Innovation, Connected Classrooms, Leadership Directorate, TAFE Director, VET virtual learning environments.

Issues and challenges

  • Commonwealth and state funding visibility - DEEWR contract provides $1.6 for edna direct costs with a further state and territory contribution in the order of 10% to meet indirect edna expenses
  • Fundamental design challenge for VLE in meeting both institution or the learner (personalization) needs, how to solve multiple identities across institutions
  • Options for smart filtering that discriminate between different  groups of users
  • Positive working relationship with education.au over the years eg jointly developed events schema
Advice and recommendations

  •  Education.au can play an important role in standards across sectors and jurisdictions. Investigate further ways states and territories can 'plug in or plug out' in a national distributed environment. Education.au contribution can be in repositories, search, VLEs, pedagogical models and advice
  • Focus less on building separate new tools and more on supporting a national integrated infrastructure and frameworks
  • Publish information about edna experience in collaborative practice, analysis of data, what does and doesn't work
  • Review current and planned national repositories and how they are connected - articulate the points of difference between national and local repositories, edna, TLF, LORN
  • Review current and planned national repositories and how they are connected - articulate the points of difference between national and loc
  • Continue innovations role as a safe place for educators (and possibly students) to experiment with ability for teachers to personalize their environment to meet individual needs
  • Meet  regularly with education.au to address business change management and approaches to professional learning

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