Delivery strategies
Content management systems
17/10/2011
Investment in the National Vocational Education and Training E-learning Strategy for 2012-2015 will stimulate innovative approaches to increasing participation in training and improve the skill levels of the Australian workforce.
Funding of $11.5m has been approved for the Strategy in 2011/12 by the Ministerial Council on Tertiary Education and Training for programs:
Building the theme –Part One
Okay, so I spent a lot of time last week setting up this new WordPress driven website for Redtwenty. In fact, I spent a lot of time building a theme and then took the whole thing down and started again!
26/7/2011
The explosion of information and communication technology use in all facets of life has seen a large increase in demand for qualified ICT professionals.
This demand is just as great in rural and remote areas, but in the past access to ICT training has been limited in isolated areas of Australia.
What is Web Accessibility?
Web accessibility is basically a set of guidelines which advise web content contributors the most effective way of contributing information to the web that is accessible by all users.
12/05/11
Two trials, investigating how e-portfolios support workforce development and lifelong learning, are now underway.
Project name
iCPole
RTO name
DFEEST Trading as TAFESA Adelaide North
Contact person
Andrew Kidd
Project category
Business-training provider partnership
Business partner
SA Government Department of Treasury and Finance (DTF)
Government Accounting, Reporting and Procurement
Background to project
You can ‘drag’ your learners to a learning management system (LMS) but you can’t make them ‘drink’ in the content unless it’s engaging.
The solution – could Facebook be used as an LMS?
One in 13 people on the planet now use Facebook – that’s more than 500 million members.
Why use different content types?
Depending on what you’re trying to achieve, there are different types of content you can use. For example if you want to gather pages of related information within a hierarchal structure, you can use a book.
This pilot will consist of three location-based 'treasure hunts' that will teach students via internet and GPS-enabled mobile phones. GPS and assesment functionality will be powered by a customised Learning Management System (Push LMS: http://pushdevelopment.blogspot.com/) developed by the project team: