Webducate Blog

Reading Room - Social Media website

The Reading Room, a social media website for book lovers, will be launched at the Sydney Writers' Festival 2009 to compete with Facebook and Amazon.

A whole new world of studying

From video marking to Second Life technology is continuing to transform the process of education and the options for online students and the enterprise.

$237,000 funding for eLearning

$237,000 has been awarded to develop and manage five projects that will deliver innovative Northern Territory e-learning training solutions in 2009.

$81.9 million for Education Network

The Government is committing $81.9 million over 3 years to fund the Vocational Education Broadband Network proposed at the 2020 Summit.

Investing in Vocational Education

The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, today called for applications for funding under the $200 million Training Infrastructure Investment for Tomorrow program.

Growth of eLearning

Latest research clearly shows the growth of eLearning generally and the expansion of conceptual and practical applications - yet confusion continues!

E-commerce laws to be upgraded

Australian eCommerce laws will be upgraded so Australia can adopt the United Nations Convention on the use of Electronic Communications in international contracts.

Social networks - popular than email

Latest research shows social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are more popular than email with Australians spending one in every 10 minutes online.

Australians spend more time online

Australians are spending most of their waking hours consuming media and are now spending much more time online than ever before, a recent study has found.

eLearning 2.0

eLearning has emerged from being a radical idea,the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven,to something that is widely regarded as mainstream.