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"The National Education Technology Plan, Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology, calls for applying the advanced technologies used in our daily personal and professional lives to our entire education system to improve student learning, accelerate and scale up the adoption of effective practices, and use data and information for continuous improvement."

ISTE is the premier membership association for educators and education leaders engaged in improving learning and teaching by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and higher education.

"Cope, Bill and Mary Kalantzis, 'The Social Web: Changing Knowledge Systems in Higher Education', in Debbie Epstein, Rebecca Boden, Rosemary Deem, Fazal Rizvi and Susan Wright (eds), Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Framing the Future of Higher Education, World Yearbook of Education, Routledge, London, 2008, pp.371-38 | "

Australian Collaboration Education Network Response to Review of Australian Higher Education Discussion Paper Ist August 2008 ACEN Secretariat:Fleur Webb,

"A place to share e-learning and Web 2.0 tools for education. Computers and laptops in education are important only when used with good pedagogy. Digital content and creation is an important part of the process for educators in the 21st century."

"Kalantzis, Mary and Bill Cope, New Learning: A Charter for Australian Education, Australian Council of Deans of Education, Canberra, 2001, 160pp"

Open source software and Australian school education education.au

The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET) is a collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training.

The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) is Australia's principal provider of vocational education and training (VET) research and statistics.

A paper discussing recent trends in public funding for VET and TAFE and the implications for future funding of government targets to improve the skills of the Australian population Prepared by Michael Long Monash University -ACER Centre for the Economics of Education and Training for The Australian Education Union

"Use a systematic approach to transform education and empower learners to thrive in the 21st century."

"The aim of the 'Indigenous voices: teaching us better' project was to improve the experiences and outcomes of Indigenous students in education and training by building the capacity of the VET workforce to effectively teach Indigenous learners. The first step in this process was for VET trainers to develop an awareness of the experiences of Indigneous learners in education. The project involved Indigneopus people telling stories about their experiences in education. These stories, recorded as audio or video files, were to be shared through a website developed during the project. "

The National Center for Open Source and Education exists to champion the use of Free and Open Source Software in K-12 schools, to empower teachers to be heroes to their students through the use of Open Technologies and to be the vital bridge between the United States and international Open Source and Education efforts.

Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies is a collection of chapters and case studies contributed by college and university presidents, provosts, faculty, and other stakeholders. Institutions are finding new ways of achieving higher education's mission without being crippled by constraints or overpowered by greater expectations.

keynote debate atEd-Media conference 2010, Toronto, 28th June to 2nd July Neil Selwyn London Knowledge Lab Institute of Education - University of London, UK

This wiki is a template that you can use for any Professional Development or Training sessions that address the use of wikis in education. With Mark's permission, we are making it available to educational technologists who are looking for tools to show their teams what can be accomplished with wikis in general - and Wikispaces in particular - in the K-12 environment.

We are a research and development centre that investigates how learning takes place in, through and for the workplace. We analyse emerging international workforce and training trends, then use this information to support progress in vocational and work-based education.

Education FOSS Primer - International Open Source Network Tan Wooi Tong