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Sixty Seconds of network news from
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Volume:7
Issue:3
March
2008
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Latest from education.au
education.au recently implemented major enhancements to the myfuture website. This work has been completed following a process of consultations with our stakeholders and advisory groups. New features include new promotional banner, updated and new labour market information, up to date census data, new content for parents, revised articles relating to Get that job and Work experience and more occupational videos.
New navigational aids include promotional banner and buttons, quizzes and video tabs, expandable menus and four levels of navigation. Take a look and let us know what you think of our new look and feel. |
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Our latest blog posts include:
- Al Upton’s MiniLegends closure - time to open discussion
- Google Sky in your browser
- Twenty percent time
- Great discussion on openDSM and open source
- Pedagogy(ical) interoperability
- New search in me
- Continuous partial attention
- Linden Labs' Second Life education blog - an old approach?
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The latest additions to me.edu.au add improved search functionality. A single search box now enables search for both people and communities. Search by a single term or a phrase like teacher librarian or history teacher.
me.edu.au is a professional networking service for Australian educators. It enables educators to display their professional profile, join communities with similar interests, and view and respond to the activities of their online colleagues. |
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We are reviewing the services provided through Education Network Australia (edna) in order to improve the service and determine future priorities. Your feedback on the edna website, edna Groups, newsletters and other edna services will be invaluable. The survey will take no longer than 10 minutes to complete and you will be eligible to win a prize. The survey will close on 31 March 2008.
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The Canberra workshops will take place on Friday 11 April, at the Copland Building, Australian National University. The overall theme of the conference is social networking for educators, with keynote presentation ‘Framing your digital footprint’ given by Dr Megan Poore. Concurrent sessions cover a broad range of topics at a variety of experience levels.
For further information, registration and program details, visit our workshop page. |
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Policy and Research
Industry and the public are invited to provide submissions that will assist in the development of the National Broadband Network Request for Proposals.
The Panel of Experts has been established to assess proposals to build the National Broadband Network, which will provide download speeds of at least 12 megabits per second to 98 per cent of Australian homes and businesses.
Written submissions should be provided to the panel by 30 March 2008, and can be forwarded by email to nationalbroadbandnetwork@dbcde.gov.au.
Submissions may be published and made publicly available online.
Further information on the National Broadband Network process and Panel of Experts is available on the website of the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy at www.dbcde.gov.au/nationalbroadbandnetwork.
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The Panel of Experts to assess proposals to build the National Broadband Network has been announced. The Panel will be chaired by the Secretary of the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Ms Patricia Scott.
The Panel will be supported by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, with support from other key departments and specialist advisors in relation to economic regulation and technical, legal and financial and commercial issues. |
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The Australian Information and Communications Technology in Education Committee (AICTEC) has recently updated its website. AICTEC is the national, cross-sectoral committee responsible for providing advice to all Australian Ministers of Education and Training on the economic and effective utilisation of online technologies in Australian education and training.
The website disseminates information about AICTEC’s priorities and now incorporates the AICTEC Standards website which promotes the use of common standards for systems and agreed policies for information collection, storage, transmission and exchange. |
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The number of students in higher education in Australia continues to grow strongly, reaching nearly 900,000 in the first half of 2007, according to new figures released by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
The record number of higher education students in the first half of 2007 represents an increase of 5.5 per cent from the same period in 2006 (increasing from 851,906 to 899,021).
Males represented 43.3 per cent (131, 605) of all commencing students in the first half of 2007 while 56.7 per cent were female (172, 512). |
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Minister for Education, Julia Gillard announced outstanding leadership awards in Indigenous education for 16 schools from across Australia. The achievements of these schools include improving attendance for year 10 to year 12 students, school enrolments and graduation rates have increased, a reflection of the schools hard work and dedication.
The Dare to Lead: Excellence in Leadership in Indigenous Education Awards, is a national project that helps to improve the educational outcomes of Aboriginal students |
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On 13 March 2008, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Education, Hon Julia Gillard announced a major review of Australia’s higher education system. This page collates relevant information about the review.
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Australia’s higher education independent, evidence-based review will be chaired by Emeritus Professor Denise Bradley AC.
Universities Australia Chair, Professor Richard Larkins and Chief Executive Officer, Dr Glenn Withers welcomed the announcement. “The Review also provides the opportunity to affirm and enhance the contribution universities make to national goals in a systematic and informed way,” Dr Withers said. |
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In his address to Vice-Chancellors and other representatives at Universities Australia's Plenary meeting, Senator Carr outlined a vision for the role of universities and university research in the Government’s program of reform... read more.
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The Rudd Government has called on young Australians to help shape the new forum that will allow them to participate in government policy development and decision making.
The Minister for Youth, Kate Ellis invites young people to submit their ideas and thoughts on the development of the new Australian Youth Forum.
Ms Ellis said the Forum would deliver on an election commitment to replace the National Youth Roundtable.
A discussion paper which will form the basis for the consultations is available at http://www.thesource.gov.au. |
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Education experts are warning that Australia's skills shortage is set to get even worse unless problems with the PhD system are addressed. Too many people are dropping out before they finish their further degrees. Some say it's because of low allowances and a lack of student support. |
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Charles Sturt University has embraced a new vision as a leading educator for the online world. Its School of Information Studies is repositioning itself as Australia’s national iSchool.
“The international group of iSchools is interested in the relationship between information, technology and people. It is committed to learning and understanding the role of information in a wide range of human endeavours,” said Associate Professor Stuart Ferguson, Head of CSU’s School of Information Studies. |
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This publication provides estimates of apprentice and trainee activity for the quarter ending 30 September 2007. An apprentice or trainee is a person undertaking vocational training through a contracted training arrangement.
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Developed for practitioners, this resource introduces adult literacy educators to the principles of strength-based practice, a technique that concentrates on the strengths, capacities and aspirations of individuals and uses these as a catalyst for change and growth. The resource provides examples of key processes and techniques, as well as information about where to access additional resources relating to strength-based practice.
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Australian social science received a funding injection with the announcement by Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, of $668,958 over four years for seven new research projects.
The projects were selected through a process of competitive peer review under the Linkage International Social Sciences Collaboration between the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the UK Economic and Social Research Council. A list of projects is available from the media release. |
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The Learning Federation conducted a workshop in Sydney from 14-15 March 2008 with two teachers from each State and Territory. The workshop is part of a joint project with Australian Science Teachers Association (ASTA) and History Teachers Association of Australia (HTAA).
During the course of the workshop these teachers developed exemplary units of work incorporating TLF content. They will implement these units with classes they are teaching and based on the outcomes of the implementation, adjust the units of work. It is planned to have these units available by July 2008 on The Learning Federation website.
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