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2007 Funded E-learning Networks

15 online e-learning networks are operating in 2007 to enable VET professionals to dynamically build knowledge and skills in e-learning. The emphasis of these 2007 networks is on forging a wide membership, including national and international connections; and in delivering e-learning outcomes to clients. You are invited to participate in any of the networks!


Greg Bourne
Greg Bourne

TAFE NSW - Illawarra Institute, NSW
greg.bourne@det.nsw.edu.au
Jo Kay
Joanna Kay
TAFE NSW - Illawarra Institute, NSW
joanna.kay@tafensw.edu.au

The Film and Media Studies Network

The Film and Media Studies Network is focussed on drawing together teachers from Tertiary Preparation Courses (TPC), General Education and Foundation and Vocational Education (FAVE) subjects to explore the use of new media including digital image and film techniques, mobile learning and online publishing to enhance teaching and learning and engage clients.

To join this network contact Greg Bourne

Arabella Hay
Arabella Hay

North Coast Institute of TAFE, NSW
arabella.hay@tafensw.edu.au
Alex Miller
Alex Miller
North Coast Institute of TAFE, NSW
alexandra.miller@tafensw.edu.au

E-Learning Leadership and Management Network

This project will provide a springboard to embed e-Learning at NCI by providing our leaders and managers with e-learning information and in addition, the opportunity to collaborate and discuss e-Learning implications upon their leadership and management role. It is hoped that NCI Managers will further their understanding in order to fully support innovative pedagogy practices and our planned NCI e-Learning strategy.

The network will be provided with an overview of new and emerging technologies and examine related leadership and management issues. This will complement and enhance our whole of organisation planned e-Learning Strategy for 2007 - 2008, which focuses upon the embedding of e-Learning throughout NCI.

This project also has relevance to managers outside NCI and the network will be broadened by collaboration initially with Gipps TAFE and followed by members of the community and other RTO's, such as members of the NCI Institute Council, NCI commercial clients and the wider VET bodies.

To join this network visit: www.elmo.nciwiki.com.au

Darren O'Connell
Darren O'Connell

TAFE NSW - Illawarra Institute, NSW
Darren.OConnell@det.nsw.edu.au

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
TAFE NSW - Illawarra Institute, NSW
steven.parker@det.nsw.edu.au

Environmental Sustainability Network

The Environmental Sustainability Network aims to connect environmental education teachers at TAFE with an existing state-wide TAFE NSW Environmental Officers group, to form an online network that will promote environmental sustainability amongst staff across TAFE NSW - and other interested staff across Australia. The network will provide participants with the necessary e-learning skills to be able to effectively communicate with each other (regardless of distance) and to develop innovative educational tools for environmental awareness training at TAFE.

Find out what is happening at - http://environet.wikispaces.com/

To join this network contact Darren O'Connell

Nicola Pegum
Nicola Pegum
TAFE NSW - Business, Arts & IT Curriculum Centre, NSW
nicola.pegum@tafensw.edu.au

Tim Dein
Tim Dein

TAFE NSW - Business, Arts & IT Curriculum Centre, NSW
tim.dein@tafensw.edu.au

TAA - Expanding the E-Learning Net

This Training & Assessment (TAA) network plans to provide an online forum for discussion of new options, as well as bring to the surface exemplars of good practice recognition, delivery and assessment strategies for the delivery of the TAA04 qualifications.
A core of TAA trainers and assessors from TAFE Institutes & private RTO's across Australia will be linked in a national network. 
Our focus is to:

  • extend and strengthen networks of collaboration incorporating current & new and emerging e-technologies
  • enable trainers and assessors to discuss online critical issues of Recognition; Assessment and Delivery strategies
  • explore e-learning opportunities to assist with the integration of employability and ICT.
To find out more or to join this network visit:  http://taanet.wikispaces.com/

Alicia Boyle
Alicia Boyle

Charles Darwin University
Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre, NT

Alicia.boyle@cdu.edu.au

Tanya Spoehr
Tanya Spoehr
Batchelor Institute of Aboriginal Tertiary Education, NT
tanya.spoehr@batchelor.edu.au

Central Australian Education and Training Network (CAETN)

The Central Australian Education and Training Network (CAETN) is based in Alice Springs and is comprised of individuals representing public and private providers of vocational education and training, Australian and Northern Territory government agencies and Aboriginal development and education and support organisations.  The Network exists to share knowledge and to work together to identify and implement Aboriginal demand-responsive education and training in both remote and regional areas.  Links will be forged with the NT "Top End Groove E-learning Network".

www.desertknowledgecrc.com.au/forums
Guests will need to scroll down and to the Central Australian Education and Training Network Group and then the E-Learning Networks Project 2007 Forum.


To join this network contact Alicia Boyle

Catherine Curry
Catherine Curry

CHARTTES Training Advisory Council, NT
eo@charttes.com.au

Richard Agar
Richard Agar
Kimberley TAFE, WA
ragar@kimtafe.wa.edu.au

Top End Groove - Cultural Tourism E-Learning network

The Top End Groove Cultural Tourism E-Learning network consists of VET practitioners and tourism business owners, employers, trainers and mentors.  The network has a shared interest in how VET can help develop, enhance and grow Indigenous Tourism businesses.  With the network stretching across from the Kimberley's to Cairns, e-learning provides the perfect platform to share good practice, access and trial new ways of training and assessing and investigate how e-learning can support business development and growth. 

Anyone with an interest in VET, e-learning and cultural tourism is invited to join this network at: www.topendgroove.com.au

Chris Sutton
Chris Sutton

Australian Lifesaving Academy, Qld
csutton@lifesaving.com.au

Peter Gould
Peter Gould
Australian Lifesaving Academy, Qld
pgould@lifesaving.com.au

Between the Flags - the Surf Life Saving Trainers Network

This network will bring together Surf Lifesaving Australia trainers and assessors and their colleagues in lifeguard and coastguard services and emergency services around the world to:
  • share the knowledge we already have of e-learning applications in Public Safety and Emergency Services training
  • open up new possibilities and pathways for e-learning in our field
  • celebrate the worldwide fellowship of volunteers who put their skills and lives on the line to keep their communities safe.
To join this network visit:
Website:  http://alsaq.com.au/
Discussion Forum (EdNA Groups): http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=1317

Margaret Granger
Margaret Granger

TAFE SA Regional Institute, SA
margaret.granger@tafesa.edu.au

Michael Coghlan
Michael Coghlan
TAFE SA Adelaide North Institute, SA
michael.coghlan@tafesa.edu.au

SA Connections

This virtual e-learning network will provide an online support platform for TAFE SA staff using online conferencing and virtual classrooms, such as Centra and Moodle. It will also make links nationally with VET staff interested in using such tools, especially those coming from large, regional TAFEs. The network will encourage staff to share ideas and collaborate across programs and workgroups.

To join this network visit: http://www.vetsa.net.au/course/view.php?id=312

Stuart Jones
Stuart Jones

Milang Old School House Community Centre, SA
stuart@byte-on.org.au

Shirley Smith
Shirley Smith
Milang Old School House Community Centre, SA
Shirley@byte-on.org.au

CANH E-NET

The Community and Neighbourhood Houses and Centres E-NET (CANH E-NET) intends to link Community Centres from around South Australia as well as to link in with other States. It will support Centre coordinators and ACE workers to investigate and develop e-learning strategies, while also strengthening the communication and partnerships between centres through enhanced IT strategies and understanding of available technologies.

To join this network visit:  http://canhnetwork.blogspot.com/

Ian Whitehouse
Ian Whitehouse

GlobalNet ICT Pty Ltd, Tas
Ian.whitehouse@globalnetict.com

Marcus Ragus
Marcus Ragus
Consultant
marcus.ragus@gmail.com

The "e-mania" e-learning network for all ...

The "e-mania" e-learning network for all ... will build upon the existing face to face network. Its intention is to establish a dynamic and innovative online network that provides new and engaging online alternatives for collaboration, presentations and resourcing for it members. The network plans to build a dynamic and naturally evolving online community which will promote e-learning across a rural and regional area leveraging strategies that are designed to generate both formal and informal levels of engagement and participation.

To join this network register at: http://emania.org/

Michael Gwyther
Michael Gwyther

Yum Productions Pty Ltd, Vic
michael.gwyther@yum.vic.edu.au
Mia Lauze
Mia Lauze
Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA)
mlauze@cbaa.org.au

Community Radio Trainers Network

The network is made up of radio broadcasting trainers from community stations around the country.  As a multi-campus RTO, the CBAA establishes partnerships with stations and registers in-house trainers in order to facilitate the delivery of accredited training to around 400 member station's staff and volunteers.  The trainers network provides opportunities for the sharing of ideas and information for this geographically dispersed group. Network members have identified building staff capacity in online facilitation, moderation, content adaptation and online/flexible assessment as critical enablers to ensure ongoing and sustainable training options for staff and volunteers in relevant broadcasting competencies.

To join this network visit:  http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=1318

Lynn Huguenin
Lynn Huguenin

GippsTAFE, Vic
lynnh@gippstafe.vic.edu.au
Glenda McPherson
Glenda McPherson
GippsTAFE, Vic
glendam@gippstafe.vic.edu.au

Classrooms Online

The Network will focus on the pedagogical practice of using online synchronous classrooms and will be of interest to VET practitioners who currently use, or are interested in using, online classrooms to enhance learner experiences and outcomes.

To join this network contact Lynn Huguenin
To find out more about this network visit: http://classroomsonline.blogspot.com/

Glenda McPherson
Glenda McPherson

GippsTAFE, Vic
glendam@gippstafe.vic.edu.au
Malcolm Jolly
Malcolm Jolly
GippsTAFE, Vic
malcolmj@gippstafe.vic.edu.au

Teaching and Learning using Virtual Worlds

A network of practitioners interested in Virtual Worlds, especially Second Life (SL), as a teaching and learning tool.. This network will be a forum to explore and discuss real applications of SL and other virtual worlds in a VET context. The network will explore actual examples of teaching and learning that have taken place in virtual world environments.

To join this network contact Glenda McPherson


Tina Sahin

Koori Programs Unit - Kangan Batman TAFE, Vic
tsahin@kangan.edu.au

Michael Swinbourn

Koori Programs Unit - Kangan Batman TAFE, Vic
mswinbourn@kangan.edu.au

Indigenous E-learning Community of Practice Network

This national network will be hosted to initiate, develop, enhance, maintain, up skill and build the capacity of Indigenous sector teachers, Koori liaison officers and other workers in Indigenous education and training to engage in e-learning networking.

To join this network visit:  http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=1328

Sandra Robinson
Sandra Robinson

Skills Strategies International, WA
sandra@skillstrategies.net
Steve McVey
Stephen McVey
Skills Strategies International, WA
steve@skillstrategies.net

EPWA (E-learning Practitioners of WA)

EPWA  is a network of e-learning practitioners from WA.  It engages participants across sectors and focuses on effective e-learning delivery, regardless of subject area or organisational constructs.  It will also be making links nationally to other e-learning networks such as the Tasmanian E-mania network.

The key objectives for 2007 are:
  • Creation of an online presence with links to other existing sites and incorporating space for specific sector information, resources and sharing spaces
  • Dissemination of information related to e-learning
  • Sharing of knowledge, information and resources
  • Promotion and delivery of PD opportunities
  • Development of a substantial membership
To join this network visit:  http://epwa.net/