1. Senior E-learning Consultant
E-Standards for Training
Creating and reusing resources that are accessible to most of your students most of the time
What are “e-standards”: Technical standards are requirements that allow electronic content and tools to operate across platforms and systems. If you are developing or managing e-learning infrastructure and content, a standards-based approach can increase the number of learners and learning environments that can use or deploy your materials.
Helen M Lynch
Senior E-learning Consultant

2. E-learning Technical standards?
Technical standards are requirements that
allow electronic content and tools to operate
across platforms and systems.
Enable your e-learning materials to be used anywhere by anyone
Offset the cost of creating your materials by facilitating adaptation of your materials for different uses
Increase the shelf-life of your materials and lower the ongoing costs for maintenance
Allowing your materials to be accessed from an online repository for sharing, exchange or sale.
If you are developing or managing e-learning infrastructure and content, a standards-based approach can increase the number of learners and learning environments that can use or deploy your materials.
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3. What functions do Standards Cover?
Accessibility
Content Formats
Content Packaging
Intellectual Property
Metadata
Platforms
Desktop Platforms
Mobile Platforms
Repositories
Web Services
Content has features or characteristics. They can be best summed up I think by asking a series of questions about the content I am creating reusing from another sources.
Can my material be used by someone with a disability?
Can my material be used by someone who has a computer with software/hardware configurations that are most commonly used by Australian students today?
Content packaging standards – making sure you materials work different OS and LMS for example

4. Content Standards Presentation and Text ? Images (Web graphics) Video
Audio

5. Software Analyser Tool
We have just looked at the formats in which you can deliver your learning resources…
Has your computer got the basic software (Functionality) you need to create and access e-learning resources in the Australian VET Sector?

6. Teacher Toolkit
Educators need access to computers configured to access and utilize educational technologies

7. What do you use? What you have?
Author and view documents
Play audio and video content
Develop web-based learning resources

8. Accessibility Perceivable Operable Understandable Robust
Provide text alternatives for non-text content.
Provide captions and other alternatives for multimedia.
Create content that can be presented in different ways, including by assistive technologies, without losing meaning.
Make it easier for users to see and hear content.
Operable
Make all functionality available from a keyboard.
Give users enough time to read and use content.
Do not use content that causes seizures.
Help users navigate and find content.
Understandable
Make text readable and understandable.
Make content appear and operate in predictable ways.
Help users avoid and correct mistakes.
Robust
Maximize compatibility with current and future user tools.
The Australian Government has endorsed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.0 for all government websites
WCAG 2.0 Level AA standard by December 2014.

10. Australia’s National VET E-learning Strategy, 2012 - 2015
Presenter:
Helen M Lynch
Senior E-learning Consultant Ph
Specialist Consulting Services
in web based technologies for education and training
Reusable learning objects, Virtual classrooms, Learning management systems and MS and Virtual learning Web 2.0 tools, webpage editing and content packaging tools, rapid e-learning development tools (ARED, Articulate, Camtasia, Wimba Create, eXe, Glomaker), online survey tools, mobile learning.