edna turns 10
The education network Australia initiative or edna initiative has been in existence for 10 years. A unique collaboration between the Australian Commonwealth and state and territory education departments, its focus is on helping educators to leverage the benefits of technology.
For educators, the most visible products of this initiative are the edna web site and the services available through edna Groups, edna Sandpit Groups and edna Lists as well as the workshops delivered by the staff of education.au, the ministerially owned company that manages the edna web sites.
We talk with current education.au CEO Greg Black, former CEO Gerry White, General Manager of Business Development Garry Putland and edna Communications Officer Kerrie Smith about the past, present and future of edna and e-learning.
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Web sites related to this episode
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edna Groups
- edna's free, online collaboration spaces for Australian educators.
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edna Lists
- edna's free e-mail discussion lists available to Australian educators.
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education.au
- The ministerial-owned company that manages the edna web sites and services.
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edna feeds
- RSS services available from the edna web site.
Resources related to e-learning in Australia
These are the first 50 of hundreds of resources available through the search on the edna web site.
- E-learning: Australia's Achievements in Education and Training [edna Resources]
- Australia's national achievements in developing state-of-the-art shared online content and services for schools, vocational education and training, an...
- E-learning in Australia and Korea: Learning from practice [edna Resources]
- This project investigates the uptake of e-learning in two countries (Australia and Korea) which have experienced a rapid expansion of the use of infor...
- e-Learning Technologies Lab, University of South Australia [edna Resources]
- The E-Learning Technologies research lab conducts research & development in the application of advances in computer science and information technologi...
- Multicultural Australia - e-Learning Objects [edna Resources]
- A growing collection of 'downloadable' useful files from Making Multicultural Australia, including simple graphic PowerPoint files for classroom prese...
- Conference proceedings - ASCILITE 2004 [edna Resources]
- The conference was hosted by The University of Western Australia. Presentations include: Reem Al-Mahmood & Catherine McLoughlin. Re-learning through e...
- Conference Proceedings ASCILITE 2005 [edna Resources]
- Includes: Key Notes: When our students can't see us in person, how do we know they catch our enthusiasm for learning?; Better questions?; Community di...
- $5.3 million nationwide for innovative e-learning [edna News]
- Funding of $5.3 million has been awarded to support more than 90 registered training organisations (RTOs) across Australia to deliver innovative e-lea...
- E-learning Indicators [edna Resources]
- This Australian Flexible Learning Framework project has established a set of 12 e-learning indicators for use in assessing the uptake, use and impact ...
- SA e-learning strategy [edna Resources]
- The South Australia e-learning strategy for Vocational and Technical Education (VTE) is divided into four sections: the workforce; the community; the ...
- 2005 Australian Flexible Learning Framework E-learning Networks [edna News]
- Vocational education and training (VET) professionals looking for a way to share knowledge and experience of e-learning can now join one of 20 e-learn...
- Globally Positioning Australian VET e-Learning Products and Services [edna News]
- Expressions of Interest are being called from organisations interested in developing a strategy to introduce and expose Australia's vocational educati...
- e-Learning Indicators 2005 - Survey Results Released [edna News]
- Results from a recent survey show e-learning uptake on the improve in Australia's VET system. The statistics found that 85% of teachers and trainers w...
- An investigation of the enablers and barriers to industry uptake of e-learning: Small business [edna Resources]
- The primary purpose of this study is to profile the status of e-learning in small business in Australia and identify the barriers to effective impleme...
- e-learning - key Australian initiatives [edna Resources]
- This paper presented by Garry Putland, Director of education.au limited via video-conference to the e-learning Conference organised in Warsaw. The foc...
- 2005 Indigenous Engagement Report [edna Resources]
- The Australian Flexible Learning Framework Indigenous Engagement Project commissioned this report on developing a model for the effective delivery of ...
- 2006 education.au National Seminar - Delivering 21st Century Tools, Learning and Skills [edna News]
- education.au limited is pleased to announce 'Delivering 21st Century tools, learning and skills', the first of two national seminars for education lea...
- New technologies training for youth [edna News]
- Young people who are typically detached from traditional learning experiences have now been given the chance to use new technologies e.g. mobile phone...
- Australian Flexible Learning Framework Funding Announced [edna News]
- The Australian Government has committed further funding for the Australian Flexible Learning Framework, the national e-learning strategy for the VET s...
- Information Online 2003 - Conference Proceedings [edna Resources]
- Conference papers, presented at the 2003 Information Online Conference, held at the Sydney Convention Centre.Barndt, Ian, Designing Information Archit...
- Elearn.WA delivers for the blind and visually impaired through flexible learning [edna Resources]
- Established in 2001, Elearn.WA is a registered training organisation based in Perth, Western Australia (WA) specialising in e-learning and educational...
- Increasing the Use of E-resources in Mainstream Teaching and Learning [edna Resources]
- Making technology relevant and appropriate to teacher needs and skill levels is the key to achieving an increase in the usage of e-learning resources ...
- Learning activity sequences, content design and development: the next generation of e-learning? [edna Resources]
- Learning activity sequences, content design and development presentation by Dr James Dalziel, Director and Professor of Learning Technology, Macquarie...
- Information Infrastructure: Backing Australia's Ability - Digital Objects Respository Management Forum [edna Resources]
- The forum is part of a consultative process being undertaken by the Higher Education Information Infrastructure Implementation Steering Committee. The...
- Conference Proceeding - Unlocking IP, November 2004 [edna Resources]
- The conference featuring cutting-edge perspectives from the frontiers of education, law, publishing and IT, this groundbreaking two-day conference cov...
- e-Framework for Education and Research [edna Resources]
- The e-Framework is an initiative by the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Australia's Department of Education, Science and Training ...
- Conference Presentations - Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA) 2005 [edna Resources]
- Lucia's Breakfast Tour, Adelaide Central Market; Kaye Schofield, The Magic Umu? Open and distance learning in three Pacific Island countries; Buchan J...
- VET SA Teaching and Learning [edna Resources]
- This website provides Vocational Education and Training (VET) practitioners and students with an online space, using Moodle, to interact and engage in...
- Australian Computers in Education Conference: ACEC 2008 [edna Events]
- The Australian Computers in Education Conference 2008 (ACEC '08) is the biennial conference of the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE...
- New Series 8 Online Training Materials [edna News]
- Teachers and trainers can now preview some of the new online training materials, activities and resources which will be available when Series 8 Flexib...
- Have Your Say on a Proposed VET E-learning International Conference [edna News]
- The 2005 Australian Flexible Learning Framework (2005 Framework) is looking into holding a vocational education and training (VET) e-learning internat...
- E-Learning To Go Interactive at ACPET Conference [edna News]
- Attendees at this month's ACPET (Australian Council for Private Education and Training) National Conference in Adelaide will be getting hands on with ...
- Indigenous Communities Adopt E-learning [edna News]
- More than $600,000 has been committed this year to increase the skills and employability of Indigenous Australians through the use of technology. Fund...
- Victoria Shows Off E-learning Overseas [edna News]
- Eleven Victorian organisations have headed to the UK to show off their wares at Londons education technology show, BETT 2006.
- New edition of important resource for trainers [edna News]
- A new edition of the text book, 'Training in Australia: Design, delivery, evaluation, management, 3rd Edition' for trainers and people studying to bec...
- Interoperability: why does it matter? [edna Resources]
- Opening presentation from Dr Evan Arthur for the e-Learning Interoperability Seminar as part of Interoperability Demonstration for Education Australia...
- education.au limited [edna Resources]
- education.au is a national ICT agency owned by the education and training Ministers in Australia. education.au has been established to enact agreement...
- MCEETYA ICT in schools taskforce [edna Resources]
- The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in schools taskforce provides strategic advice to the Ministerial Council on Education, Employmen...
- Australian Flexible Learning Framework Collaborative Interoperability [edna Resources]
- This project aims to extend access to resources for the VET sector by focussing on improved information management and greater adoption of national te...
- Developing Quality Online Materials: The Flexible Learning Toolbox Experience (December 2004) [edna Resources]
- In October 2003, the Steering Group for the Resources for Teaching, Learning and Assessment Program requested that the learnings from the Toolbox expe...
- Learning in an online world: Learning architecture framework [edna Resources]
- The Learning Architecture Framework is a reference document to support organisation and school planning. It articulates issues for consideration by mi...
- MCEETYA ICT in Schools Taskforce - Bandwidth - Connectivity [edna Resources]
- MCEETYA has endorsed the need for particular priority to be placed on the provision of high bandwidth services to schools covering urban, rural and re...
- Learning Partners [edna Resources]
- Learning Partners is an innovative training organisation that provides nationally recognised education and training services Australia wide. They have...
- Presentations from IDEA 2006 - integrated e-learning environments [edna Resources]
- The forum was held in October 2006, at Victoria University, in Melbourne Australia. Included presentations: Integrated learning environments in New Ze...
- Effective professional development [sound recording] [edna Resources]
- Episode 3 of the 2006 edna e-learning insights podcast features audio of an interview with Dr. Susanne Owen, an independent educational consultant and...
- Teacher ICT Skills Key to Online Benefits for VET in Schools [edna Resources]
- This news article from The Knowledge Tree describes the innovative approaches to flexible learning professional development in VET in Schools RTOs in ...
- Ironer Stop: Laundry Industry Safety Program [edna Resources]
- This resource for the laundry industry is targeted at users with very low numeracy and literacy skills, poor English or no English skills, and sometim...
- education.au limited - Research [edna Resources]
- This page contains information about research activities undertaken by education.au. It includes Global Summit of Online Knowledge Networks - Themes A...
- Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development, Volume 1, Issue 1 (2004) [edna Resources]
- A scholarly, peer-reviewed, international journal that supports emerging scholars and the development of evidence-based practice and that publishes re...
- Online Articles - Online Collaborative Learning in Higher Education [edna Resources]
- This page provides a bibliography of papers about online collaborative learning which have been published online and are available in full free of cha...
- Artists' books online : redefining the book [edna Resources]
- The site provides access to images of artists' books from the State Library's collection. This project has provided an opportunity to showcase the art...
