AICTEC - Australian Information & Communications Technology in Education Committee

• AICTEC
• Priorities

AICTEC priorities 

Key requirements for good use of ICT for learning and teaching are:

• Educator skills and enthusiasm;
• Very good, affordable communications infrastructure;
• Compelling, easily accessible content;
• Easy to use collaboration tools; and
• Ubiquitous computing capacity.

AICTEC's focus is accordingly on those areas where a cross sectoral and cross jurisdictional approach can provide national solutions to support education and training in Australia to provide these key requirements.

AICTEC's Work Plan identifies the following as priority areas for action:

• Bandwidth
  Monitoring developments in bandwidth across Australia for educational and training purposes by educators, learners and researchers
• Copyright
  Cooperating across education sectors to manage appropriate licensing agreements in a digital environment
• Developing educators in the integration of ICT for educational purposes
  Developing educators who are confident, capable users of ICT, able to incorporate digital strategies and resources into practice
• Domain management (.edu.au)
  Managing and administering the .edu.au internet domain for eligible education and training bodies
• Interoperability Standards
  Promoting use of common standards for systems and agreed policies for information collection, storage, transmission and exchange
• Learner identity management
  Enabling a national framework to manage learner identity across sectors

Sector specific information

These links provide information relating specifically to sectors.  

• Schools
• VET