Brenda Aynsley OAM FACS, President of the Australian Computer Society, pointed out in The Australian last week that free on-line courses are now available for teachers, to help them with the new Digital Technologies component of the Australia curriculum: https://ia.acs.org.au/news/opinion-equipping-kids-with-digital-skills-key-to-future-success-402779
The courses are run by the Computer Science Education Research Group (CSER) at the University of Adelaide. The next course starts 1 May 2015: http://csdigitaltech.appspot.com/cser_nextsteps/ One of the most useful aspects I have found of such courses is to remind me how hard it is to be a student. Also it is useful for teachers to familiarize themselves with how on-line courses are run, as this will be the way they will teach their students in the future. -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
