eStandards
Project Name
Hairdresser's Tool Pouch
RTO Name
TAFESA Tea Tree Gully
Contact person
Tina Dalwood
Hairdressing Educator
Hair and Beauty
Project name
DFC College ePortfolio
RTO name
DFC College for Learning and Development
Contact person
Nick Ratsch
Project category
Empowering learners
Business partner name
N/A
Background to project
Department for Families and Communities (DFC) consists of four agencies - Families SA, Housing SA, Disability SA and Domiciliary Care, with a total of approximately 6,338 staff. Staff are situated in metropolitan, rural and remote SA.
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:
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
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.
29/08/2011
Charles Darwin University (CDU) is undertaking an e-learning innovations project to address the significant barriers people with low levels of language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) skills have in accessing training.
10/08/11
A user guide on Digital Video Principals – designed to help e-learning content developers make informed decisions about the use of video formats, codecs and delivery systems – is now available.
02/08/2011
‘Live’ case studies exploring e-portfolios from Australian and international perspectives are now available.
28/07/2011
A free Massive Open Online Course – aka MOOC – aimed at teachers and trainers who are new to e-portfolios is running during August and September.
18/07/2011
Outcomes of two trials looking at how e-portfolios can support workforce development and improve learner participation are now available.