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Episode 1 of the 2006 edna podcast features audio of an interview with Ian Phillips regarding the 2006 E-learning Benchmarking Survey conducted on behalf of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework. This national survey on the use of e-learning canvassed all TAFE institutes, private and enterprise training providers, adult and community education providers and VTE in schools providers. Government-funded, non-accredited training providers were also included in the survey. The results not only track the growth in e-learning uptake, but also includes data on how teachers are incorporating e-learning into their training delivery and how students are responding to e-learning.

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Al Upton's hands-on experience in using blogging as an educational tool covers learning outcomes, frustrations with content filters and extending the learning beyond school walls. He contends that even less technically inclined educators have a lot to offer their students and discusses the importance of making connections that are safe and savvy.

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A paper by Jillian Dellit presented at the ALIA Conference September 1998 which looks at some of the challenges and opportunities that Australian educators (including librarians) face in this policy environment. Part I sets a context of information economy issues for our society. Part II looks specifically at these issues as they impact on educators, who, it is argued, should be preparing for the more dynamic 'Knowledge Age'.

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The paper outlines the stages in the development of edna and the focusses which emerged as part of this Australian educational collaboration to develop a national service built on stimulating local involvement and contribution.

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The purpose of this calendar is to provide information about special days/weeks/months of celebration appropriate to Australian schools. Teachers may like to use the events listed, and the information each notice provides, as the basis of their own local calendar. It is distributed annually as a wall chart to all schools.

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Subject gateways offer a unique capacity to support innovative learning and teaching and are exemplary in demonstrating best practice in online resource description.

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This report was commissioned by the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST), as a contribution to the Inquiry to assist the work being undertaken by DCITA on bandwidth demand projection modelling as part of the Inquiry. The main aim of the Inquiry is to provide authoritative information about known bandwidth availability and pricing matters, and to promote understanding about the strategic issues raised by the transition to a data-based method of providing communications services. The report has been prepared in consultation with the education and training sector, which is one of the largest users of telecommunications bandwidth in Australia.

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MCEETYA ICT in Schools Taskforce 2002 Work Plan provided strategic advice to MCEETYA on bandwidth needs for the school sector. In addressing bandwidth, the MCEETYA ICT in Schools Taskforce recognised the inter-relationship between the three distinct components to telecommunications services provided to schools: data carriage, traffic content, technical management.

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This report shows the results of a study undertaken by education.au limited in 2000. The study was designed to achieve four major objectives: identify the characteristics and functionalities which edna currently demonstrates, compare edna characteristics and functionalities with those demonstrated by other online education services provides, recommend strategic action so that edna's characteristics and functionalities not only match, but exceed those demonstrated by other education services providers, and deliver a tool which will help edna evaluate collaborative opportunities.

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This episode of E-learning Insights features audio of an hour-long online discussion led Sue Waters, the editor of the Edublogger (the blog of the Edublog web site, a service provider of blogs for the education sector). The slides from this live classroom presentation are also available from the edna site.