Online Learning at Sydney TAFE

Digital Media - New Learners Of The 21st Century

"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."

Productivity Commission report in to the VET sector 5 May 2011

"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."

"This research uses adapted self-assessment questionnaires to examine the relationships between the learning motivation, learning strategies, self-efficacy, attribution and learning results of 135 distance learners. The aim is to model the relationship between psychological characteristics and learning results of distance learners. The outcomes of this study show that a relationship exists between psychological characteristics and learning scores of distance learners. First, there is a relationship between self-efficacy, learning strategies and learning results"

"Design thinking is centered on innovating through the eyes of the end user and as such encourages in-the-field research that builds empathy for people, which results in deeper insights about their unmet needs. This focus helps avoid the common problem of enthusiastic "outsiders" promoting inappropriate solutions and ensures that solutions are rooted in the needs and desires of the community."

an Jukes

"What are Learning Analytics?"

"Going Virtual! 2010," a study by researchers at Boise State University, said they received training geared specifically to online instruction before beginning their work.

Thinkinsights with google

Future focus: Australia's skills and  workforce development needs  A discussion paper for the 2012 National Workforce  Development Strategy

Which one are we?

Just a little something I found long ago...still relevant perhaps...