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Teaching with digital curriculum resources. Education Services Australia develops and licenses digital curriculum resources to support teaching and learning. They are aligned to state and territory curriculums and are progressively being aligned to the Australian Curriculum as it develops. The resources are available free of charge to all Australian schools. combine still and moving images, text, audio and animation to provide interactive multimedia experiences for students. They engage, motivate and support the learning of concepts and skills in a range of curriculum areas from F to 12. are interactive resources that support formative assessment. When the student completes the assessment object, the teacher can read a report of their performance against the learning outcomes addressed. have been sourced from leading Australian and New Zealand cultural and scientific institutions and private collections.
Bring together up to 30 interactive, assessment and other resources with similar themes and subthemes drawn from the curriculum. Quality assurance. Key elements of the digital resource should be reviewed in an iterative process at each stage of development to ensure the resource is an effective learning tool. You need to check various aspects of the resource against the previously agreed specifications and relevant guidelines after each version is developed. You should cover the following aspects of the resource in the review process: educational soundness – are the learning objectives met? (it may be also be useful to conduct an in-school evaluation)factual accuracy, editorial consistency and claritytechnical issues that could affect usability and accessibilityfunctional behaviour to ensure it is easy to usemetadata, for discoverabilitya warning appears if the material includes the image, name or voice of an Indigenous person who may have passed awaycopyright permissions and conditions of licences have been fulfilled.
Australian Curriculum mapping. The Australian Curriculum Connect project provides a technical approach to assist with implementing the Australian Curriculum. Funded under the Australian Government's Digital Education Revolution initiative, the project seeks to create a technical framework for sharing, discovering and using content in different e-learning environments. It is not a new national website, product or solution that mandates a particular approach. Australian Curriculum Connect will have flexibility built in to enable education authorities to use it in a way that best suits their jurisdiction or school system.
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The metadata must be created according to Education Services Australia standards and specifications. The method of distribution must be based on one of Education Services Australia's two systems: the Metadata Exchange (MEX) or the Sharing Exchange (SHEX) Title Description Key learning objectives Educational value Topics (ScOT) Keywords Spatial coverage Temporal coverage The Metadata Exchange. National Digital Learning Resources Network home page.