context

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• context
• vocational and technical education
• australian flexible learning framework
• access to bandwidth project

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whats happening

• an approved model
• a national backbone network for the VTE sector
• AARNet most viable provider
• TAFE State/Territory networks will connect to
  AARNet capital city POPs
• on-net traffic
• australian education digital network (aedn)

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the model
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why is it happening?

• cost and quality of service
• access to publicly funded content
• innovation in teaching and learning
• support of Australian Government initiatives

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pilot projects

• test the proposed model
• provide information for network design and
  development
• demonstrate high bandwidth applications

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tafe tasmania tafe nsw at new england

• multimedia design student teams collaborating
  on design and development, virtual office hours,
  end of collaboration online show case,
  elluminate, breeze, wikis, blogs
• community services and health collaboration on
  resource development (video based demonstrations
  of manual handling techniques), moderating
  assessment, shared teaching, breeze, flash
  communications, elluminate

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tafe tasmania tafe nsw at new england

• information technology developing a classroom
  simulation, based around WebEx, multipoint
  videoconferencing, and mimio - an electronic
  whiteboard technology
• start_at_tafe using MARVIN to teach ms word to
  cert II teacher aide students, breeze
• carpentry joinery developing video-based,
  interactive learning objects, for use on campus
  and in the workplace, using video cameras to
  capture and submit for assessment, sharing
  teaching, assessment validation, breeze

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RMIT and TAFE NSW at Illawarra

• architectural design
• diploma of building design and technology
  students
• five teams collaborating on end of year design
  projects using BIM
• click to meet
• smartboards
• sharing of teaching and assessment
• wiki
• blog

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central tafe wa centre for learning innovation
nsw

• collaboration in content development, delivery
  and assessment
• certificate II in IT
• VET in schools (servite college and wyong high)
• virtual classrooms

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technical issues

• routing
• network address translation
• firewalls
• content filtering
• proliferation of virtual classroom platforms
• web 2.0 applications