Working together

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Working together building Australias knowledge
networks
NATIONAL COLLABORATION AND ITS REWARDS OR LINKING
THINKING
Gerry White Chief Executive Officer education.au
limited
Towards collaborative global education networks
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education.au limited
education.au limited is a national non-profit
agency owned by Australias education and
training Ministers and funded by the Commonwealth
and all State and Territory Governments. The
agencys role is to develop and manage online
information services that are a benefit to all
Australian education and training
communities. Through the use of collaborative
and consultative processes, education.au limited
builds and maintains national online information
services and products that meet the needs of
early childhood, school, vocational, adult
community and university education.
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education.au limited

• education.au limited is owned by MCEETYA and
  governed by a Board with a Chair appointed by the
  Commonwealth and nominees from
• Commonwealth
• schools (gov n/gov)
• VET
• higher education
• experts (3)

• Australian
• Education Internet
• Commonwealth, States Territories
• Collaboration
• Grow distributed networks

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education.au limited
Professor Lesley Parker Professor Ian
Goulter Professor Judyth Sachs Peter Nissen Dr
Evan Arthur

• education.au limited is owned by MCEETYA and
  governed by a Board with a Chair appointed by the
  Commonwealth and nominees from
• Commonwealth
• schools (gov n/gov)
• VET
• higher education
• experts (3)

• Australian
• Education Internet
• Commonwealth, States Territories
• Collaboration
• Grow distributed networks

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Collaboration
Registered Institutions
Universities 38
Schools 10,000
Vocational Education and Training
3.5 Million education training
82 FE Colleges (govt) 640 campuses
Private Training Organisations 4000
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Commonwealth
education.au limited
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Exec Officer Cath Parker
Commonwealth
education.au limited
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Professor Robin Stanton Professor James
Taylor Paul Stubing
Commonwealth
education.au limited
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FLAG Exec Officer Julie Ahern
Commonwealth
education.au limited
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Commonwealth
education.au limited
MCEETYA ICT Schools Taskforce Exec
Officer Heather Woods
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Products and services
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Products and services
EdNA (Education Network Australia)
Online Australias national gateway to resources
and services for education and training
communities. It provides weekly email information
newsletters, search functions and categories for
resource discovery and free collaborative tools
including discussion lists, forums, chatrooms and
noticeboards.

• 16,000 evaluated education and training
  resources
• 330,000 linked searchable webpages
• more than 500 discussion lists
• 10,000 subscribers to EdNA Onlines email
  alerts
• 3,000,000 hits per month
• listings of national and international
  conferences

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• EdNA Online is
• Aggregator
• Supplier
• Directory
• Gateway
• Online Communities

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• Aggregates through
• Manual input
• Indexing
• Harvesting
• Supplies through
• XML streaming
• Search (API), Chat, Listserv, Forums,
  Noticeboards
• Search across databases

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Distributed management using EdNA metadata (based
on DC)
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Hosted by Adelaide University

• Technical Details
• SUN/Solaris O-S
• Oracle
• Verity
• Lyris
• Janisons
• OAI compliant
• Z39.50 protocol

Managed by education.au Advised by EdNA Online
Reference Committee
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Hosted by Adelaide University

• Technical Details
• SUN/Solaris O-S
• Oracle
• Verity
• Lyris
• Janisons
• OAI compliant
• Z39.50 protocol

Managed by education.au Advised by EdNA Online
Reference Committee
Scott Schneider Janice Rickards
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Products and services
ICT Research http//ictresearch.edna.edu.au ICT
Case Studies http//leadingpractice.edna.edu.au
ICT school projects http//ozprojects.edna.edu.a
u National Software Evaluation http//nsep.edna.
edu.au
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Sibling site model 1. User group? 2. Business
requirements? 3. National online asset (database)
Products and services
ICT Research http//ictresearch.edna.edu.au ICT
Case Studies http//leadingpractice.edna.edu.au
ICT school projects http//ozprojects.edna.edu.a
u National Software Evaluation http//nsep.edna.
edu.au
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Products and services
www.myfuture.edu.au available from July 2002
myfuture.edu.au myfuture.edu.au, Australias
online career information service, is valuable
for all Australians interested in career
exploration.
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• Australias career
• information service
• Career Information facts about
• Courses, providers
• Occupations
• Industry
• Regional labour market
• Financial support
• Career exploration -my guide
• Interests
• Skills
• Values

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Products and services
www.thelearningfederation.edu.au

• The Learning Federation
• education.au , in a joint venture with Curriculum
  Corporation, is responsible for delivery of The
  Le_at_rning Federation Schools Online Curriculum
  Content Initiative.
• education.au is responsible for
• Specifications
• Interoperability standards
• Learning Exchange
• Digital Rights Management

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Products and services
Government Education Portal www.education.gov.au
Provides and entry point to the Commonwealth
Government information and services, and uses
many of the tools and services from EdNA
Online. Interoperability standards
www.standards.edna.edu.au education.au engages in
a range of national and international forums
which are developing technical standards and
specifications relevant to the internet in
education and training.
IMS (Global Learning Consortium, Inc), IEEE
LTSC, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36, ADL-Net, Standards
Australia, DCMI
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• Strategic Alliances (27)
• GEM
• European Commission
• BECTa, JISC
• Industry Canada
• AEShareNet
• Te Kete Iranganui
• DCITA - AMOL
• DCITA - Culture Recreation Portal
• Negotiating
• CEDEFOP Training Village
• NCVER
• ABC
• MERLOT

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Global Summit of Online Knowledge Networks
Eight actions were recommended by 300 delegates
to the Global Summit of Online Knowledge Networks
hosted by education.au and held in Adelaide,
Australia on 4 and 5 March 2002 in association
with the World Congress on Information Technology.
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Recommendations
Delegates recommended that, to ensure the
effective development and use of online services
and resources in education and training, we need
to  

• Spread the word about the benefits of online
  services
• Establish, develop and extend online communities
• Reconceptualise the role of teachers and teaching
• Draw on government and institutional frameworks
  and resources
• Demystify online education and training services
• Establish online knowledge standards
• Develop ICT across education and training sector
  boundaries
• Establish a seamless global learning framework

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Global Gateways in education training
Global Gateways A Guide to Online Knowledge
Networks is a first attempt at mapping and
analysing parallel developments in online
services around the world.
Developed as a resource for the Global Summit,
the guide is the result of a research project
undertaken by the Australian Council for
Educational Research on behalf of education.au.
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Global Gateways Guide

•  The project is a world first by providing
• a listing of close to 200 educational networks
  from around the world
• categories, terminology and criteria to define
  and compare these networks
• profiles of network users

Searchers Explorers Self improvers Participators
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The Global Gateways Guide is an evolving
potentially collaborative resource that lists
education networks managed by
Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Estonia, The
European Community, Finland, France, Germany,
Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Iran, Ireland, Japan,
Korea, Latin America (laborum.com), Namibia, The
Netherlands, New Zealand, The Nordic Community,
The Philippines, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden,
Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United
States.
www.educationau.edu.au/research/globalgateways.doc

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How can education.au support you? What do you
wish to use from the national online asset?
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Working together building Australias knowledge
networks
Thank you!
Gerry White Chief Executive Officer education.au
limited gwhite_at_educationau.edu.au
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• Direction
• Policy
• Priorities
• Standards
• Special projects

HE
VET
Schools
Nationally across sectors
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• Direction
• Policy
• Priorities
• Standards
• Special projects

HE
VET
Schools

• Bandwidth
• Content
• Professional
• development

Nationally across sectors