News

Keep up to date with all the news from EPICT Australia.

• 18 Aug 2011

  EPICT Australia is Proud to Announce its Partnership with Atomic Learning

  EPICT Australia has entered into an exciting new partnership with Atomic Learning.
• 27 Jan 2011

  EPICT Samoa Visit 2011

  EPICT Australia invited to train Samoan teachers as part of the MESC's Schoolnet Project.
• 20 Jul 2010

  Expert panel to advise on apprenticeship reforms

  Education Minister, Simon Crean, announced that an expert panel has been established to advise the Government on reform options for the Australian Apprenticeships system. The seven member Apprenticeships for the 21st Century Panel will be chaired by Mr Jim McDowell and includes industry and union representatives and academics. The panel will examine training arrangements to improve outcomes for apprentices and industry. It will report to Government by the end of 2010.
• 12 Jul 2010

  Outcome of consultations on transparency and accountability for ISP filtering of RC content

  The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, announced a comprehensive suite of transparency and accountability measures to accompany the introduction of ISP filtering of Refused Classification content. The Government also announced it will recommend a review of the Refused Classification guidelines to the States and Territories and welcomed support from the major Internet Service Providers to block a list of child abuse URLs.
• 12 Jul 2010

  Review of school funding - final terms of reference

  Education Minister Simon Crean has released the final Terms of Reference for the first comprehensive Government review of school funding in over 30 years. Mr Crean said the Review of Funding for Schooling will consider how schools in Australia are funded in the future and lay the foundation for ongoing investment in the sector. DEEWR Media release, 9 July 2010
• 05 Jul 2010

  New IP content services taking off in Australia

  A new report released by the Australian Communications and Media Authority confirms that Australians are increasingly able to view video content on their own terms, including when, where and how they want it. The report is part of the ACMA's ongoing research program into the application of emerging technologies. ACMA, 30 June 2010.
• 29 Jun 2010

  New Minister for DEEWR and Social Inclusion

  The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has announced that Simon Crean is the new Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, and Minister for Social Inclusion. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, 28 June 2010.
• 22 Jun 2010

  What can Australian students do with computers?

  This article, in Research Development Volume 23, Issue 23 (2010), by John Ainley (ACER CEO) describes the latest findings of the National Assessment Program- ICT Literacy, conducted by ACER for the Australian government, which show some mixed results in Australian students? proficiency with computers.
• 22 Jun 2010

  Classroom uses of social network sites: Traditional practices or new literacies?

  This study examined the practices of two teachers who had chosen to use the social network site Ning to create online classrooms as supplements to their physical classrooms in order to bridge the self and school-selected literacies of students. The study further aimed to identify whether the ways in which the teachers were using Ning constituted literacy practices that were new.
• 22 Jun 2010

  The future of cloud computing

  Technology experts and stakeholders say they expect they will ?live mostly in the cloud? in 2020 and not on the desktop, working mostly through cyberspace-based applications accessed through networked devices. This will substantially advance mobile connectivity through smartphones and other internet appliances. Many say there will be a cloud-desktop hybrid. Still, cloud computing has many difficult hurdles to overcome, including concerns tied to the availability of broadband spectrum, the ability of diverse systems to work together, security, privacy, and quality of service.