Webducate Blog

Thu, 12/02/2009 - 11:02

Donna Mortlock, Webducate | 12 January 2009

Learning doesn't have to happen in a bricks and mortar classroom. Webducate has reinvented the learning process making education more dynamic and engaging.

Webducate believe that sustainable success comes from creating true "win-win" solutions that engage and inspire people to work together, harnessing...

Fri, 10/12/2010 - 11:05

By Stephen Downes

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. 

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Fri, 24/12/2010 - 11:45

Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson  |  March 05, 2009

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.

We also are ditching our desktop computers for laptops, accessing the internet wirelessly and almost all internet users have broadband access at home, the...

Wed, 05/01/2011 - 09:46

Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson, The Courier-Mail | March 11, 2009

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.

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Wed, 05/01/2011 - 09:47

Karen Dearne  |   April 23, 2009

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

DOMESTIC e-commerce laws will be upgraded so Australia can adopt the United Nations Convention on the use of Electronic Communications in...

Wed, 05/01/2011 - 09:48

Donna Mortlock, Webducate | 18 April 2009

Research clearly shows the growth of eLearning generally and the expansion of conceptual and practical applications.  Yet there is still considerable confusion in what actually constitutes eLearning.    Essentially, eLearning is about technology being used to support educational interactions and this can include...

Wed, 05/01/2011 - 13:38

The Hon Julia Gillard MP | 23 April, 2009

2020 Summit: Vocational Education Broadband Network

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

The Vocational Education Broadband Network will provide the infrastructure to support a high speed...

Wed, 05/01/2011 - 13:40

Vocational education and training (VET) students are having their say on how e-learning is being used in training.

The 2011 E-learning Benchmarking Student Survey, conducted by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework, is happening now across Australia.

The survey measures student attitudes towards the uptake, use and impact of e-learning, with questions around the extent...

Wed, 05/01/2011 - 13:47

Lucy Tobin, The Guardian | Tuesday 21 April 2009

There's not a red pen in sight when Russell Stannard marks his master's students' essays - but it's not because the students never make mistakes. Stannard doesn't use a pen, or even paper, to give his students feedback. Instead - and in keeping with his role as principal...

Wed, 05/01/2011 - 13:48

Demand for training needs to be considered in a number of dimensions. The first is the type of training. The second is who is the agent (the demander), and the third is the institutional setting. Training can be accredited, formal but not accredited, or informal, such as on-the-job training. It can also be at various levels—in the vocational education and training (VET) sector, from...