eLearning08: Into the future of education
Last December, the Australian Flexible Learning Framework held the NSW eLearning08 Conference to showcase the outcomes of 38 projects that had received funding under the E-learning Innovation Program in 2008. The conference was deemed a great success with over 250 attendees each day of the 2-day event.
Mark Pesce has been exploring the frontiers of media and technology for a quarter of a century, with a strong focus on education.
Mark Pesce’s keynote address on what education might look like in the future and the growing power of the learner/consumer to choose and determine the content, style and format of their learning provided much food for thought and sparked lively discussion.
The industry panel session was well received as the attendees enjoyed hearing about the challenges faced by industry in developing and delivery of training across huge organizations. In 2009 the Framework hopes to host an online forum to allow more “conversation” on mutual topics of interest.
Each project presented the story of their project in themed panel sessions and sharing of these stories provided much insight and inspiration to the attendees.
Resources and Podcasts
All resources and podcasts from eLearning08 can be found on the TalkingVTE website
Conference feeds
The eLearning08 twitter feed shows us some of the things that participants, speakers and organisers were and have been doing.
Now you can have your turn!
Funding for the 2009 E-learning Innovation Program has recently been announced. Full details are available from the NSW section of the Flexible learning website.
Applications close on 5 March 2009
Guidelines and the Application form are available from the NSW page of the website and also information about a series of Information sessions that are currently being held around NSW. These are running now – possibly in a town near you – so hop on to the site to make sure you don’t miss out. There are also online sessions for those who can’t make the face to face sessions and there are recordings from these sessions also available.
For more information please contact Melanie Doriean on 9244 5784 or contact Sharron Edwards to register for one of the Information sessions.