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TAFE NSW eLearning Hub Contents Organisational overview The TAFE NSW eHub provides support to the ten TAFE NSW Institutes, with a focus on advancing teachers' eLearning capability via learning experiences and knowledge sharing.

TAFE NSW North Coast Institute Contents Organisational overview One of the ten Institutes of TAFE NSW, North Coast TAFE consists of seventeen campuses located along the coastline of northern New South Wales stretching from the Great Lakes region, north of Newcastle, through to the Queensland border.

In an Australian-first study, researchers from Macquarie University in Sydney tested the link between environmental lead and violent crime by examining air samples from six NSW suburbs

MediSkills aims to build Business-Training Provider Partnerships between 4 Divisions of General Practice and 4 Community Colleges in the northern region of NSW.

The Western Sydney Institute trial team evaluated the benefits for on-the-job learners of delivering learning content, formative assessment tasks and evidence gathering via mobile devices using wireless networks. The trial integrated several established technologies (2D-barcodes, wireless networking and an open-source web server / application framework) into a customised system, in order to overcome several problems encountered when using mobile devices as a learning platform: difficult navigation and text entry using mobile phone keypads slow data transfer speeds and expense of the commercial 3G mobile network limited options for authoring and/or hosting learning content specifically for mobile devices.

Based on currently available open source applications, the project team identified, developed and customised multi-touch educational activities for use by learners with a disability. Outcomes included reporting how Australian Government web accessibility requirements (WCAG2 Level A - or ideally, Level AA) can be achieved on touch screen devices. The activities were trialled with students from New England Institute and Tasmania Polytechnic

Skill shortage areaDisabilities The work online - induction tool project by Greenacres Training Service focused on the need for timely, easy access to new staff induction training in the Disability sector.