The standard of Australia's tertiary education system could be 'turbo-boosted' by creating an online university where lecturers from the world's best institutions such as Harvard and Oxford are beamed in using new technology. Utilising this new global connectedness to build Australia's knowledge base and capacity for innovation is just one way to begin preparing for the end of the resources boom, says Hugh Evans, director of the Global Poverty Project. The Australian, 8 September 2009
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- Education Network AustraliaEducation Network Australia (edna) was a collaborative project between all Australian governments, states and territories and sectors of education and training. The project was partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Initiated in 1994 as a means to facilitate access to the internet for schoo […]
- Protection of children online. Risks faced by children online and policies to protect themAs increasing numbers of children worldwide enjoy the benefits of the Internet, they also face a spectrum of risks to which they are more vulnerable than adults. This report examines these risks as well as the policy responses of governments and other stakeholders to improve the protection of children online.
- ICT and the Australian CurriculumCurrently there is no published curriculum documentation for ICT Competence as a GC. Rather its place in the Australian Curriculum is recognised within each of the four published learning areas through embedding in content descriptions and/or achievement standards. As a learning area, work is just beginning on determining ICT's 'conceptual' ho […]