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Wednesday Aug 06, 2008
Forum 5: Australian Government, July 24
Staff from DEEWR represented several branches:
- Student Access and Equity
- VET Technology Projects, Technology and Communications
- Higher Education Quality Branch
- Enterprise and Careers Branch
- Transition to Training and Work Branch
- Student Access and Equity Branch
- IT Development Branch
Issues and challenges for edna
- Optimal targeting of audiences for edna services - sector, location, ICT access and skills
- Points of difference of repositories from other services - eg Google, Scootle, with potential for edna to focus on free and open licensed content
- Previous and pending DEEWR restructures
Advice and recommendations following edna presentation
- Continue role in innovation and assessment of new technologies for learning - allow a safe place for educators to experiment
- Present accessible research and practical advice on what does and doesn't work, inform decisions at the local level
- Improve communication strategies, search engine rankings and ways of organising interfaces for a large range of services
- Liaise with DEEWR Higher Education section in the edna higher education review (demand and value assessment) later in 2008
- Circulate completed edna 2008-09 work plan to participants
- edna contract management is the responsibility of the Schools,
Teaching, Students and Digital Education Revolution Group
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Posted at 12:06PM Aug 06, 2008
by Mark Tranthim-Fryer |
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