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LearnScope From 2000 - 2005

An overviewLearnScope focuses on professional development to enhance the skills and understanding that underpin e-Learning and e-business. It provides funding for work-based professional development projects and encourages both individuals and teams to model sustainable practices in their own learning through a range of strategies including engagement with recent thinking about professional development in the ‘knowledge era’.



Context• LearnScope is one

form of funding for Professional Development in VET funded by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework



LearnScope outcomes• 17,500 teachers, trainers, managers,

technical and support staff have benefited to date

• LS manages and leaders, in each State and Territory, are skilled project & thought leaders

• Longitudinal studies have measured and indicated flow-on effects for organisational ability



LS Case Studies



Background: Best of AFLC: a collection of learning from the archives

http://flexiblelearning.net.au/community/default.htm



Teaching, Training & Learners



2005 Performance Indicators

• % of VET teachers and trainers able to customisee-learning content

• % of VET teachers and trainers using and satisfied with e-learning

• Take-up, use, sharing and personalization of e-learning resources by providers

• Attitude of VET leaders and managers to e-learning

• % of VET providers offering e-learning options

• Use of e-learning by targeted learner segments including people with disabilities

• Level of general usage and resource sharing achieved through the national network



Project Examples from 2005

• Digital Storytelling PD• Online induction• Upskill food safety

technology• Internships• Writing and editing online• E-meetings• eMentoring• Online role-play• Professor on the Podium• Blended learning techniques

• Tourism and Floristry• Online health resources• Retail online• Making toolboxes work• Librarians and Learning

Resources• English language school e-

Learning support• Engage (Building

relationships with Youth)• Putting PDAs into practice



Reflections from projects

• "Through LearnScope projects staff have become up-skilled and enthused about a whole range of Flexible Learning concepts and practices. The experiences they have had working on the projects have enhanced the creativity of the teachers." Adrian Marron, CEO Wodonga TAFE



LearnScope managers’ perspectives



Early rush for a project



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Or visit these useful URLsLearnScope - national• http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/learnscope/

LearnScope Community - Victoria• http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=196

LearnScope Archives• http://flexiblelearning.net.au/community/default.htm



LearnScope Victoria

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