e-learning standards

Below is a link to a recent and very interesting presentation from Education Services Australia (ESA) on ‘The Digital Australian Curriculum’  at http://www.usq.edu.au/~/media/USQ/lia2011/ACARA%20Curriculum%20Connect%20LIA.ashx .

This presentation covers the National Digital Learning Resources Network, ACARA, Australian Curriculum Connect, and the ACC pilot.

A recent post http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/01/metadata-digital-publishing.html from the publishing area explains how creating ‘metadata isn’t a chore, it’s a necessity’. This is a timely reminder about the continuing value of creating relevant metadata to help enable people to find your digital resources.

On a similar topic Irvin Flack and Evan Bailey presented at ALIA Information Online 2011 Conference in Sydney on February 1  on ‘Metadata for the uninterested’. PowerPoint available  [5.7MB] on ALIA website.

This paper [PDF 5p] from Link Affiliates describes how ‘technical standards enable an education delivery scenario that would not have been possible a few years ago’. The paper provides examples of how Australian involvement in technical standards has been directly beneficial to Australian education initiatives. The paper comes from a DEEWR-funded ‘Technical Standards for Digital Education’ project which reported earlier in 2010. Irvin Flack and Evan Bailey were among the representatives from CLI.

URL = http://www.linkaffiliates.net.au/Activities/FGOutputs/Impact_of_Standards_Work_on_Australian_education.pdf