Building and Sustaining National ICT/Education Agencies : Lessons from Australia (EdNA)

Building and Sustaining National ICT/Education Agencies : Lessons from Australia (EdNA)

Education Network Australia (EdNA) operated for fifteen years (1995-2010), providing a national education and training portal for quality resources, technology standards and educational community spaces. It was initiated in 1995, at a time when the World Wide Web was new and a number of significant...

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Main Authors: White, Gerald, Parker, Lesley
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:
ICT
education technology
internet connectivity
technology standards
training portal
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/270521488907905829/Building-and-sustaining-national-ICT-education-agencies-lessons-from-Australia-EdNA
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spelling okr-10986-262632021-05-25T08:58:22Z Building and Sustaining National ICT/Education Agencies : Lessons from Australia (EdNA) White, Gerald Parker, Lesley ICT education technology internet connectivity technology standards training portal Education Network Australia (EdNA) operated for fifteen years (1995-2010), providing a national education and training portal for quality resources, technology standards and educational community spaces. It was initiated in 1995, at a time when the World Wide Web was new and a number of significant international and national reports had been written about harnessing the benefits of digital technologies for education and training. This paper examines the origins and development of EdNA as a national collaboration of education authorities and as an online portal. It begins with an overview of the Australian context. It then goes on to outline the Australian context within which EdNA grew, the processes put in place to achieve its goals and the progress of EdNA as an ICT education initiative. A brief analysis of key internal and external factors and of policy outcomes then follows, before some concluding comments that highlight the dynamic nature and complexity of integrating ICT in education at a system-wide level. 2017-03-15T16:21:40Z 2017-03-15T16:21:40Z 2016 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/270521488907905829/Building-and-sustaining-national-ICT-education-agencies-lessons-from-Australia-EdNA http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26263 English en_US SABER-ICT Technical Paper Series; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper East Asia and Pacific Australia
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education technology
internet connectivity
technology standards
training portal
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education technology
internet connectivity
technology standards
training portal
White, Gerald
Parker, Lesley
Building and Sustaining National ICT/Education Agencies : Lessons from Australia (EdNA)
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description Education Network Australia (EdNA) operated for fifteen years (1995-2010), providing a national education and training portal for quality resources, technology standards and educational community spaces. It was initiated in 1995, at a time when the World Wide Web was new and a number of significant international and national reports had been written about harnessing the benefits of digital technologies for education and training. This paper examines the origins and development of EdNA as a national collaboration of education authorities and as an online portal. It begins with an overview of the Australian context. It then goes on to outline the Australian context within which EdNA grew, the processes put in place to achieve its goals and the progress of EdNA as an ICT education initiative. A brief analysis of key internal and external factors and of policy outcomes then follows, before some concluding comments that highlight the dynamic nature and complexity of integrating ICT in education at a system-wide level.
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author White, Gerald
Parker, Lesley
author_facet White, Gerald
Parker, Lesley
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title Building and Sustaining National ICT/Education Agencies : Lessons from Australia (EdNA)
title_short Building and Sustaining National ICT/Education Agencies : Lessons from Australia (EdNA)
title_full Building and Sustaining National ICT/Education Agencies : Lessons from Australia (EdNA)
title_fullStr Building and Sustaining National ICT/Education Agencies : Lessons from Australia (EdNA)
title_full_unstemmed Building and Sustaining National ICT/Education Agencies : Lessons from Australia (EdNA)
title_sort building and sustaining national ict/education agencies : lessons from australia (edna)
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/270521488907905829/Building-and-sustaining-national-ICT-education-agencies-lessons-from-Australia-EdNA
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