eLearning news archive
eLearning news archive |
| BETT 2008 9-12 January, London, United Kingdom |
| BETT 2008 attracted 700 educational suppliers and more than 30,000 visitors bringing together the global teaching and learning community for four days of innovations and inspirations. In 2008, 12 Victorian eLearning companies attended BETT, further consolidating Victoria's reputation as the home of excellence in eLearning. |
| BETT 2007 10 - 13 January, London, United Kingdom |
| BETT is the world's leading educational ICT event, with over 600 leading educational suppliers, and over 27,000 visitors, it brings together all relevant ICT providers for the global teaching and learning marketplace. Victorian eLearning companies have been attending for several years and using BETT as an effective forum to build their UK market presence. The Victorian Government and the Victorian eLearning Industry Association exhibited at BETT 2007. |
| Victorian eLearning companies visit Japan: 10-14 April 2006 |
| The Minister for ICT, Marsha Thomson, led a Victorian Government ICT Mission to Japan to promote the strengths of Victoria as an investment location and an internationally competitive source of innovative products and services. Of the 21 companies which participated in the mission, four companies were in the eLearning field. The mission gave Victorian eLearning companies the chance to showcase their sophisticated products to a global market. |
| New eLearning tool to help reduce the suicide rate in Men |
| Melbourne-based company, Microcraft recently created a new eLearning tool to help reduce the suicide rate in Men. The new tool, "Suicide Assessment and Intervention: Men at Risk", was created for the Federal Government's Crisis Support Services and launched by the Federal Minister for Family and Community Services on October 13, 2005. Aimed at mental health professionals, the eLearning tool is being delivered in CDROM format to agencies within the Family and Community Services Network. |
| Press release (PDF, 9KB, 1 page) |
| Victoria at Aichi World Expo Japan, June 2005 |
| In June 2005, the Victorian Minister for ICT, Marsha Thomson, accompanied Victorian ICT companies to Japan. The trip highlighted Victoria's ICT capabilities in particular sectors including computer games, eLearning, intelligent transport systems, RFID and photonics and microelectronics R&D. |
| Aichi eLearning media release |
| ICT Mission to Japan Delivers for eLearning Industry - 28 June 2005 |
| Victorian eLearning company Etech Group has entered into a partnership with Japanese broadband provider Data Pacific and Waseda University. |
| Managing Intellectual Property, IP, for eLearning: Leveraging IP - Build, Buy or Borrow 7 April 2005, Melbourne |
| This workshop was designed to provide organisations with an opportunity to get an understanding of intellectual property principles and issues, especially copyright. |
| Download the presentation from AE ShareNet (PDF, 833KB, 34 pages) |
| VASSP Statewide General Meeting eLearning Symposium for Education 31 March 2005, Melbourne |
| Supported by Multimedia Victoria and the Department of Education and Training, the symposium was aimed at "Developing partnerships between Education and the ICT Industry". |
| Contact elearning@mmv.vic.gov.au if you would like to view Dr Martyn Forrest's presentation (Department of Education, Tasmania). |
| Media release - 10 March 2005 |
| IDEA Summer 2005 : IDEA-Lab 10-11 February, Melbourne |
| The Federal and Victorian Government sponsored this event, to encourage and promote interoperability between educational content and application developers by providing an opportunity to test interoperability between implementations of the specifications and standards. |
| http://standards.edna.edu.au |
| Victorian eLearning at BETT Education Technology Show London, January 12-15, 2005 |
| MMV accompanied a group of Victorian companies to the BETT Education Technology Show - in London from 12-15 January 2005. |
| Media release - 6 January 2005 |
| View the list of Victorian companies who attended (available in English and French): English | French |
| $1.8M for Creating eLearning Leaders (CeLL) |
| The Creating eLearning Leaders (CeLL) program will commence in 2005. The project is a joint initiative with Microsoft's Partners in Learning Program. Twenty-eight schools will become centres of ICT expertise, innovation and support. |
| Media release - 23 January 2005 |
