Digital Education in Australia

CoSN delegation Singapore

Kathryn Moyle, Research DirectorPru Mitchell, Manager Information Services

14 January 2015

Outline

• About us• ICT in Australia’s education

agenda• Teacher quality• Australian Curriculum• Student learning and assessment• Learning architecture• Learning resources

• Implications for leaders

Australian Council for Educational Research

• creates and promotes research-based knowledge, products and services that can be used to improve learning across the life span• not-for-profit, independent of government• 300+ staff in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Dubai, New Delhi • Jakarta and London (2015)

ACER’s workEducational Monitoring and Research

Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation• Teaching and Leadership• Program Evaluation• Tertiary Education• Indigenous education

National SurveysInternational Surveys

Professional Resources

Assessment and Psychometric Research

Strategic directions 2014-16• Education Policy and Practice• Science of Learning• Global Education Monitoring• Assessment Reform and Innovation

Australia: education agenda

Where we’ve come from: 2009-2013• Federation• Joint Ministerial roadmap• Digital Education Revolution (DER)

• What the DER achieved

Current government agenda: from 2014• ICT-related

• Teacher quality• Australian Curriculum• Online testing

Teacher qualityAustralian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) professional standards• Illustrations of practice• Global trends in professional learning and

performance & development

ACER E-Portfolio assessment project

Continuing professional learning• Teachmeets• Scootle Community

Review of teacher education• Higher Education funding reform

Australian CurriculumAustralian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority

Australian Curriculum F-10• ICT capability cross curriculum• Technologies F-10

Design and TechnologiesDigital Technologies

• Asian languages• Early Learning Languages Australia

(ELLA)www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/rationale

Student learning & assessmentFormal learning• IEA International Computer and

Information Literacy Study (ICILS)• PISA 2012• National Assessment Program – ICT

2014• Online national testing • ACER Progressive Achievement Tests

Informal learning• Games and learning

STEM Video Game Challenge

ICT Infrastructure

My School

National Schools Interoperability Program

State portals: big data, open data (NSW)

National Broadband Network (NBNCo)

Schools in the Cloud

Learning resources

Education Services AustraliaScootleSplashapps

eBooks / eTextbooks Open Education Resources

Implications for leaders

Research

Learning analytics and data

Evidence-based policy and school improvement

Professional learning

Questions?