Open Edge 2009
Greg Black
CEO Education.au
Open or Closed Schools?
There is a choice!
Banning & Blocking
Device bans
Other Walled Garden issues
In my view, work to date on a national e-learning business model shows the current state of play as
entity centric approach - walled gardens and central procurement
duplication of effort
lack of knowledge sharing
BARRIERS
      - between school, home and work
      - between systems and states
individualised learning a goal, but not widely realised
wide variation in effective use of ICTs
resistance to innovation and change

generate services focused on learners and learning
leverage existing knowledge and content
enable collaboration and sharing
provide a common enabling infrastructure
foster innovation
Inflexibility of Existing Models
7 years from conception to working system
"Refreshes" that don't consider all needs and aspirations
Sustainability of creating in-house versions
Cloud Computing
Australian initiatives
http://www.cybersmart.gov.au
http://url.edna.edu.au/ARgF
OpenID is an international identity standard.
Educators can use their me.edu.au URL as an OpenID 'key' to access a growing list of education and non-education specific applications - free service, DEEWR provided.
Your Turn
A National eLearning Business Model would
Find this presentation online
http://url.edna.edu.au/MbXa
Presentation delivered October 2009
http://open-edge.info/