Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs

 

Taskforce Priorities

K-12 Interoperability

Background

New and significant infrastructure and standards issues need to be resolved by jurisdictions to ensure that the curriculum content developed by jurisdiction initiatives; national initiatives, cultural organisations; and commercial developers can be delivered to, and used in schools.

The work of the Taskforce has raised jurisdictions' awareness of the educational and business imperatives for their ICT infrastructure decisions to be informed by standards and interoperability considerations.

MCEETYA 2002 endorsed the development of a national K-12 Learning System Architecture Framework to provide a strategic guide to jurisdictions in ensuring that teachers will be able to effectively use digital materials. This will provide a broad blue print to guide jurisdictions as they acquire, develop and introduce new software to ensure that they will have the capacity to effectively deliver the digital curriculum materials, and to integrate these resources with the many other systems and sources available to teachers in preparing their work.

The Taskforce provides advice to, and is represented on the cross sector Australian Information Communication Technologies Education Committee (AICTEC) Standards Sub Committee.


Publications 

Learning Architecture Framework 

[pdf] Learning Architecture Framework Case Study - LeAP Tasmania Learning
- MCEETYA ICT in Schools Taskforce, November 2004
 (208 Kb)
[ppt] Learning Architecture Framework Powerpoint Presentation
- MCEETYA ICT in Schools Taskforce, August 2004
 (1134 Kb)
[pdf] Learning Architecture Framework
- MCEETYA ICT in Schools Taskforce, August 2003
 (968 Kb)
[pdf] Developing a National Learning System Architecture Framework for the Australian Schools Sector
- MCEETYA ICT in Schools Taskforce, March 2002
 (557 Kb)
[doc] Developing a National Learning System Architecture Framework for the Australian Schools Sector
- MCEETYA ICT in Schools Taskforce, March 2002
 (1619 Kb)
[pdf] School Online Curriculum Content Initiative November 2001 Schools Learning Information Architectures Project Report (QADRANT Report)
- The Le@rning Federation, August 2001, education.au limited and Curriculum Coorporation
 (198 Kb)
[doc] School Online Curriculum Content Initiative November 2001 Schools Learning Information Architectures Project Report (QADRANT Report)
- The Le@rning Federation, August 2001, education.au limited and Curriculum Coorporation
 (239 Kb)

Standards 

[pdf] Opportunities for School Sector Engagement with National and International Standard Initiatives
- MCEETYA ICT in Schools Taskforce, August 2002
 (158 Kb)
[doc] Opportunities for School Sector Engagement with National and International Standard Initiatives
- MCEETYA ICT in Schools Taskforce, August 2002
 (313 Kb)

Open Source Software 

The Le@rning Federation 

Specifications for The Le@rning Federation webpage lists the latest documents on: Educational Soundness Specifications, Rights Management Specifications, Accessibility Specifications, Technical Specifications for Content Development, Metadata Application Profile, Metadata Mandatory Elements and Exchange Web Service Specification.

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