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An interesting demographic about the ten services provided by education in the tertiary sector. PDF download available

The Online Therapy Institute provides a range of services including counselling in virtual worlds and online, web site templates for private therapists to be able to conduct e-counselling and more. Technology is becoming part of the profession. Preparing our learners to use it is vital to their careers.

This guide will assist assessors to offer streamlined recognition processes and enable them to help employers and recognition candidates to be better informed about recognition. This guide is intended for trained assessors who are familiar with key aspects of quality assessment practice, including the principles of assessment and the use of a wide variety of methods of assessment applicable to both groups and individuals. This guide is not a substitute for thorough training in assessment for all assessors.

I work in a private RTO. When can I use copyright material for my work without seeking permission from the copyright owner? Your private RTO is unlikely to have been declared an 'educational institution' under the Copyright Act 1968 10A(4) declaration and will not be operating under statutory licences that allow it to reproduce other peoples creations.Private RTO's can purchase 'blanket licences' that allow it to operate in the same way as the statutory licences. Contact the Copyright Agency Limited for detailed information.Otherwise, if a work is subject to copyright you will generally need the copyright owner's permission to reproduce it. However, listed below are several circumstances where you won't need permission:Owner gives permission Some authors, want to make their work more freely available so they put an alternative copyright statement on their work. This is often true in the VET system where there is a strong culture of collaboration. To check this - read the copyright statements on hard copy items. In the electronic environment look out for items bearing a Free for Education (FfE) or Creative Commons logo.Work is now in the public domain What is the public domain? This is where all works go when their copyright expires. In Australia, that is 70 years after the author dies. Once a work is in public domain you can use as much or as little of it as you like without the author's permission. To find out more try typing "public domain" into any major search engine.

Why we need to move beyond text assignments in our courses...

This is in BETA, but looks really, really promising! A sub page module for Moodle courses, that FINALLY allows the Course Outline to be just that, and allow for sub pages with resources and activities hanging directly off them. Will save DAYS of manually linking!

THERE is a concept in telecommunications called "the last mile," that part of any phone system that is the most difficult to connect - the part that goes from the main lines into people's homes. Prem Kalra, the director of the new Indian Institute of Technology in Rajasthan, one of the elite M.I.T.'s of India, has dedicated his school to overcoming a different challenge: connecting "the last person."

Shirley Brice Heath is a linguistic anthropologist

Download and print your Free Family Movie Pass

iGoogle acts as an RSS feed reader - and you can also add in some fun and useful gadgets. It comes free with a Google account. Useful for tracking activity of multiple web sites and skimming headlines. Can create multiple dashboards (tabs) for specific topics).

The Blooming Orange poster is WONDERFUL - http://learngrowlead.wikispaces.com/file/view/BloomingOrangev1-2.pdf

 poster size guide for teachers, allowing them to compare the functionality and pedagogical advantages of some standard Moodle tools, adding a column to indicate how tricky the tool is to set up.