edna.edu.au

Outcomes

• relevant and accessible e-learning content and services for educators
• Increased community awareness of the scope of edna services.

Strategies 

• source and deliver topical news, debate, workshops and enquiry services
• employ user-centred development processes
• promote and enhance  edna content and functions.
  

Outcomes

• quality digital educational resource collections
• efficient discovery of online resources and learning objects.
  

Strategies 

• aggregate, share and distribute educational resource collections
• enhance  harvesting and metadata tools and services
• provide targeted, fast user search experiences.

Outcomes

•  provide vibrant, sustainable communities of interest and practice
• create leading-edge practice in online collaborative tools and  workspaces.
  

Strategies 

• support owners and members of Groups and Lists
• promote professional learning in the use of ICTs for education
• provide free online and ‘web 2.0’ services for educators.
  

Outcomes

• promote cutting-edge practices of ICT in learning
• demonstrate new and emerging e-learning platforms and tools.

Strategies 

• showcase new e-learning research and practices
• trial new digital content and collection practices
• maintain ICT in learning ‘labs’ to explore and demonstrate social networking
• publicise and monitor international e-learning developments.

Outcomes

• creation of a  robust,  flexible and cost-effective ‘national hub’ for e-learning
• educational web services for sites, portals and devices are packaged and distributed.

Strategies 

• deploy world class content and repository management systems
• trial new search and collaborative workspace applications
• support distributed applications and RSS services
• promote and model e-learning benchmarks and standards.

As part of the consultation process for edna, education.au limited conducts an extensive consultation and collaboration process with the states, territories and the Australian Government through the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST), to ensure that edna services reflect and complement initiatives in each state or territory and within each sector of education and training.

The consultation process includes an education.au development workshop (eDW) to which stakeholders are invited to send representatives. There are also face-to-face meetings in each state and territory and consultation through formal committees.

Every year edna seeks advice about future services. Users and organisations are invited to submit feedback via e-mail, respond to a survey and attend face-to-face meetings. Information about the edna consultation process is posted in The Networker.

To subscribe send a blank e-mail to: join-thenetworker@edna.edu.au.

The consultation process provides a basis for the development of edna's online services. It also provides the basis for a funding submission for the following financial year.