On May 16, the Australian Federal Budget was announced ensuring Government’s Digital Education Revolution is secured into the future with $1.2 billion to be spent on Digital Education over the next five years. $32.5 million will be spent over the next two years to support three broad programmes aimed at enabling students and teachers to seamlessly access, discover, manage, create and use information online.
to develop a body of online curriculum content including material for gifted students and for specialist subjects, such as languages for use across the education systems aligned with the newly announced national K-12 curriculum.
for the Australian Government to work with all schools governance systems across all states to develop a plan of action for further work aimed at ensuring that online information relating to schooling is effectively managed into the future.
to initiate a series of high priority projects to enable effective management and delivery of the diverse types of online information used in schooling systems across Australia in the areas of Digital repositories, Integrated learning environment, Technical standards, Persistent identifiers Interoperability of student data, National approach to copyright, e-Portfolios, Schools Access Federation
Technical standards for content and systems interoperability are a key strategic element for each of these measures. For more information see: The Digital Education Revolution