Can e-learning help skill shortages?
New VET research
New research confirms that e-learning is being sought out by Australian business and industry looking to solve significant skills shortages by curbing time consuming off-the-job training and speeding up apprenticeship completion times.
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Educating the net generation in Australia's universities
February-July workshops
A series of workshops designed to share findings from the ALTC-funded Educating the Net Generation project with undergraduate teaching staff, student learning skills advisors, curriculum and staff developers, university IT services professionals, academic planners and administrators and higher education researchers throughout Australia.
National ICT workshop tour
Registration open March-June
Join your colleagues and the edna team for practical, hands-on professional learning and networking for all sectors of education and training.
The workshops include sessions on integrating ICT in teaching and learning, Moodle, online professional networking, e-portfolios, web conferencing, RSS and more.
www.edna.edu.au/workshops to register for the workshop in your State or Territory, cost $66 inc GST.
Fire safety theme page
Learning and teaching resources
In response to the Victorian bushfire tragedy, edna has created a fire safety theme page with links to a collection of resources suitable for the teaching of fire safety and prevention, bushfires and natural disasters.
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What's on this month
Upcoming conferences and events
The Universities Australia Higher Education Conference will provide the premier forum for the sector to discuss the policy agenda for higher education in Australia and internationally, and focus on important issues for higher education in the national interest.
Highlights include addresses by the Prime Minister, televised National Press Club address and National Media Awards for higner education. 4-6 March, Canberra.
eLearning Showcase - Corporate Case Studies: Who’s doing what in eLearning. 12 March, eLearning Industry Association of Victoria, Melbourne.
Integrating Interactive Whiteboards into the classroom will introduce teachers to effective and practical uses of the IWB in the classroom and explore how it can be employed across various KLAs and stages. 25 March, Scholastic Australia, Sydney.
Smartcopying is the One Stop Shop for all you need to know about copyright in Schools and TAFE.
The Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT) provides a controlled vocabulary of terms used in Australian and NZ schools.
Connect provides schools and families with the best resources from across the internet which can be used for learning. Connect replaces the former Victorian Education Channel.
It's all about me
Video by members showing what they get out of the me.edu.au professional networking community
Surviving and thriving in the first year of teaching
