Technologies
06/02/2012
Money may make the world go round, but how often do we stop to think about the skills of those on the receiving end of a transaction to handle cash and electronic payments?
Submitted by Brand Management on 6 February 2012 - 12:29pm. With Australia moving to adopt a national qualification to enable workers to enter a construction site, a project is currently underway to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of an immersive 3D computer game to deliver occupational health and safety (‘White Card’) certification training for the construction industry.
Submitted by Brand Management on 3 February 2012 - 2:17pm. With Australia moving to adopt a national qualification to enable workers to enter a construction site, a project is currently underway to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of an immersive 3D computer game to deliver occupational health and safety (‘White Card’) certification training for the construction industry.
Submitted by Brand Management on 3 February 2012 - 2:15pm. Project Name: Forklifts Gettin' Mobile (FGM)
RTO Name: SAPOT
Contact person: Ben Stokes
Project Category - Empowering learners
Background to project
SA Plant Operator Training (SAPOT) has been delivering training on earthmoving equipment, forklifts and heavy vehicles to national standards since 1988.
Submitted by Alison Hall on 19 January 2012 - 12:53pm. 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:
Submitted by Web Administration on 17 October 2011 - 11:26am. 
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There is a bit of work happening out there with IMS content packages and ebooks. The Moodle books feature allows books to be exported in this format so it too has the built in capacity for creating durable learning resources and publishing them widely on the web via conversion to ebooks. See more of this at Canberra's Moodleposium11 in late October this year.
Toolbox learning objects could become even more widely portable as e-books. The mind boggles!
Tom Worthington, ACt is doing some work too - check out the blog at
Submitted by Helen Lynch on 12 October 2011 - 6:31am. - Helen Lynch's blog
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13/09/2011
The Strategic Planning for Flexible Learning conference will be held on 15-16 November in Sydney.
Themed Building capability to foster innovation in a demand driven tertiary education market, the conference will feature expert analysis from some of the countries’ leading online and blended learning professionals and examine the tertiary education industry’s most pressing issues, including how to:
Submitted by Brand Management on 13 September 2011 - 7:26am. 09/09/2011
An exciting group of speakers who have an eye on the future have been confirmed for the eyeQ2.011 conference, which will be held in Brisbane on 16 September.
Submitted by Brand Management on 9 September 2011 - 9:49am. 05/09/2011
Newly arrived migrants have participated in an e-learning project that provided them with a method to record their learning and employment experiences.
The project which was conducted by AMES (Adult Multicultural Education Services) piloted the use of e-portfolios by adult Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) learners.
Submitted by Brand Management on 5 September 2011 - 9:20am. 31/08/2011
A full program of the ePortfolios Australia Conference 2011 (EAC2011) which will be held on the 17-18 October at Curtin University, Perth is now available.
Submitted by Brand Management on 31 August 2011 - 8:21am. 