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Projects: Access to Flexible Learning Resources
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Investigations into access of publicly funded flexible learning
resources within the Australian Vocational Education and Training
(VET) system, including the ACE (Adult Community Education)
sector, were carried out during Stage One of the Access to
Flexible Learning Resources project in 2000.
The project team:
- Researched overseas models and conducted a literature
survey,
- Interviewed a sample of VET practitioners who are regularly
looking for flexible learning resources,
- Conducted a review and analysis of existing Australian
catalogues and databases of VET flexible learning materials,
- Wrote a discussion paper and conducted three workshops,
- Produced a Final Report which includes recommendations
on how to improve access to flexible learning resources.
Access to Flexible Learning Resources Stage Two, conducted
in 2001, produced an Online Guide to Resource Catalogues.
This Guide provides a snapshot of the major, publicly funded
catalogues of VET flexible learning resources in Australia.
The catalogues on the Guide are listed by state and the Guide
provides a description of each catalogue including:
- the scope of the catalogue,
- the URL or web address of the catalogue,
- the number of resources the catalogue provides,
- availability of the types of resources the Guide provides
(audio, video etc.).
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The Online Guide to Resource
Catalogues provides a concise set of web pages that describe
the major registers (or catalogues) of VET flexible learning
resources. The Guide provides a description of the major registers
of VET learning resources in Australia with links to their
websites. The description of each register covers the scope
of the site, including the quantity and nature of material
as well as the types of services it offers (eg whether materials
need to be purchased).
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Product
Development Planning Guide (307 kb)
The Product Development Planning Guide describes the
major considerations in planning the production of resources,
producing the resources and distributing the resources.
The Guide also introduces the most important aspects
of metadata implementation.
Access
to Flexible Learning Resources 2001 Executive Summary.
(200 kb)
This document will be of interest to anyone dealing
with information management and learning resource management
or sharing issues/projects.
Access
to Flexible Learning Resources Project 2000 Final Report
(244 kb)
Identifies key issues associated with flexible learning
and online learning resource location, holdings, dissemination
and access. This report may have relevance to practitioners,
researchers, managers, librarians, learning resource
developers, and information managers concerned with
information issues or resource location and management.
These documents are available in Adobe
Acrobat's Portable Document Format (PDF). If you do
not already have the Acrobat Reader you can download
it for free from Adobe.
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"We have just received RTO status
and are looking forward eagerly to providing training
in the community cultural development arena. The Online
Guide to Resource Catalogues has provided us with a
useful resource and relevant introductory info about
who's who in the zoo of vocational education and training."
Audrey Hutchison, Queensland Community Arts Network,
QLD
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Last updated:
January 31, 2006
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