Australia - Digital Economy - E-Education and E-Government

Synopsis

The use of IT and telecommunications technology within educational environments is set to increase dramatically over the coming years as high-speed fibre-based broadband becomes widely available in Australia. Simultaneously, the capability of Internet services devoted to e-education purposes is set to increase enormously over the next decade as well. Australia, with its large landmass and relatively small population, is an ideal market for remote education services. As such Australia is home to many successful e-education service providers, as well as being a relatively important market for e-education services.

The Australian Government provides citizens with relatively sophisticated e-government services already and as with education, the establishment of a fibre-based broadband network may see the government improve and broaden the range of web services that it is responsible for. Therefore, Australia is a fascinating and relatively advanced market for both e-education and e-government services.

This report discusses related telecommunications infrastructure developments as well as trends and innovation related to e-education and e-government services. In the report we provide information and analysis, an overview of survey results with some statistics provided throughout the text and in tabular and chart formats.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Education and the need for the National Broadband Network (NBN)
  • 2.1 Analysis on e-education initiatives
  • 2.2 E-education, the NBN and infrastructure
  • 2.3 The NBN-Enabled Education and Skills Services program
  • 2.4 NBN education portal
• 3. New vision for e-education – 1:1 education
  • 3.1 Australia’s first trans-sector initiative
  • 3.2 A standardised e-education system
  • 3.3 Risk of failure – people, not technology
  • 3.4 Interactive and personalised education system
  • 3.5 Expanding the teaching profession
  • 3.6 From medieval schools to a digital society
  • 3.7 It is all about economic benefits
  • 3.8 From Notebooks to ThinkPads
• 4. Remote laptops from One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
• 5. E-learning
  • 5.1 Funding for e-learning projects – 2010 - 2011
  • 5.2 Flexible learning framework assists with e-learning
  • 5.3 2010 E-learning Benchmarking Survey
• 6. E-education infrastructure initiatives
  • 6.1 Background
  • 6.2 National government policy – Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH) to the schools
  • 6.3 An NBN for Catholic schools
  • 6.4 MySchool 2.0
  • 6.5 NSW schools get fast broadband
• 7. E-education content in Australia
  • 7.1 Australia’s largest online library
  • 7.2 E-learning from Australian Computer Society (ACS)
  • 7.3 Media literacy
• 8. E-government
  • 8.1 Background information
  • 8.2 Local e-government initiative
  • 8.3 Cloud service a new growth market
  • 8.4 Survey on e-government services usage
  • 8.5 Conclusions
  • 8.6 Government deploys national TelePresence system
• 9. Australia in the Global Innovation Index
• 10. Global trends in e-education (separate global report)
• 11. Global trends in e-government (separate global report)
• 12. Related reports

• Table 1 – Australian Flexible Learning Framework industry funding – 2005-2007; 2008 - 2011

• Chart 1 – Uses of delivering e-learning training by businesses – 2010