Welcome to your new e-learning hub
flexiblelearning.net.au provides a central hub for vocational education and training (VET) practitioners and providers working in e-learning to connect with colleagues around Australia and internationally.
Launched in early July 2009, the site is interactive and user driven, featuring web 2.0 technologies which encourage the sharing of knowledge, experience and learning resources.
Through the new site you can:
- network with other VET practitioners to develop your knowledge and use of e-learning, by joining relevant online groups and communities
- contribute your own e-learning content to the site, and view content contributed by others
- actively build your own site presence, by bookmarking website content and commenting on and rating other users’ content
- conduct an enhanced search of the site, allowing you to find old favourites and new content quickly and easily.
The site provides users with information on the types of learner groups that can be engaged through e-learning; how to use technologies such as digital stories, ARED, LORN and podcasting; and organisational strategies which support the uptake of e-learning.
The new site provides meaningful learning experiences for users by helping to capture and share the collective e-learning knowledge and know-how of the VET system in one easy to access portal, according to website manager and Western Australian Flexible Learning Advisory Group (FLAG) member, Sue Lapham.
"The site is easy to use and designed to be experimented and interacted with – you don't need to be a technical whiz, just have an eagerness to learn and develop your e-learning knowledge.
"Along with the obvious benefit of learning from and connecting with people working in e-learning, the site uses web 2.0 tools as a platform, and will help educate users in a hands-on way about how to adopt social networking tools in teaching and learning."
To become a user of the site, you must first register for a login account. This can be accessed via the login tab on the right side of the homepage.
The national training system’s e-learning strategy, the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework), conducted an initial briefing session about the new website at the Getting Connected 09 online conference (the recording of the Elluminate!Live session is available).
Additional website training will be held in the coming months, and readers can keep up-to-date by signing up to Flex e-News.
Please note: the Framework is uploading the new flexiblelearning.net.au website in the first part of July. While this site is being uploaded, some downtime may occur. If this happens, please exit the site and try again shortly.
Submitted by Kim Edgar on 2 July 2009 - 4:03pm. 
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Communities tend to be made
Communities tend to be made up of those who have widely diverse interests. I believe Stephen is right in that a network is most likely to succeed (especially if it is made up of such a community).
In my commentsphere, for instance, I am forever amazed at the diverse group of people, of all types and background, who are part of it. And though they are held by a common thread, the strength that I see in that network is not because they all have a devotion to one topic, but that their other interests permit them to bring different qualities to the forum.
And while the size of the network is important to the facile way that it can function (and this is important too) its makeup is just as important. It is strength in diversity.
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