1. Using technology for expanding options in desert education contexts Alicia Boyle Desert Knowledge CRC

2. Presentation Overview Why do we need to expand the options? What’s in the new VET practitioner ‘toolkit’?

3. Why do we need to expand the options? Facilitate individual, negotiated learning in context Facilitate a range of blended delivery and assessment options Assist with Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) Assist with the formal recognition of workplace and informal learning, cultural learning and lifelong learning Reduce the reliance on text based learning Reduce the reliance on learning and assessment in English Increase flexibility in the time and place to access learning Improve the quality of delivery and assessment Reduce cost of delivery Community-based job creation

4. What’s in the new VET practitioner’s ‘toolkit’? Interactive Distance Learning (IDL) (satellite) and online (web) classrooms VOIP - Skype Blogs, Wikis, Kaltura, VoiceThread, YouTube, SlideShare, Podomatic Online RPL and E-portfolios Mobile technologies – ipods/video ipods Free online software – Photostory, Audacity, Moviemaker Online resources – Australian Flexible Learning Framework

5. E-Tools Interactive Distance Learning (IDL) (satellite) and online (web) classrooms

6. Skype

7. Blogs, Wikis, Kaltura, VoiceThread, YouTube, SlideShare, Podomatic

8. Online RPL and E-portfolios

9. Mobile technologies – ipods/video ipods

10. Free online software – Photostory, Audacity, Moviemaker

11. Online resources – Australian Flexible Learning Framework Make it Real Our Art Our Place Our Way PowerUp

12. Questions Alicia Boyle Education Coordinator, DKCRC alicia.boyle@cdu.edu.au