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About us

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​The Learning Place is the department's comprehensive eLearning environment providing secure access to an innovative range of digital tools, resources and online spaces for teaching and learning, collaboration and networking.

The Learning Place supports contemporary teaching practice enabling today's learners to steer their own learning and arrive at their own ICT-enriched learning destinations.

The quality of teaching is critical to the process of learning. Successful learners are creative and productive users of technology moving easily between their personal learning environments and networking spaces (physical and online) to improve their knowledge, capabilities and understandings of our world.

The role of the teacher in a technology rich environment is to combine curriculum knowledge and understanding of the learner with effective teaching strategies to enable purposeful learning.

Digital teachers are empowered by their personal educational networks. They acknowledge themselves as learners on a journey that is exciting, challenging and connected.

Our tools and spaces

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  • Staff space

    supports resource discovery, creation and sharing of online spaces and resources, networking and professional development.

  • Student space

    allows students to discover thousands of digital resources and online spaces, blog (with teacher approval), collaborate online and personalise their own learning space.

  • OneChannel

    provides access to live and on-demand educational programs. A range of OneChannel partners makes the PD calendar a rich and vibrant learning opportunity for EQ staff.

  • Staff blogs

    Allows EQ staff to collaborate online and share experiences, teaching strategies and resources. Combined with a personalised tag system, staff blogs are powerful professional learning spaces.

  • edStudios

    are drag and drop creative authoring spaces for staff and students. Staff and students can collaborate in the studio and use multimedia sourced from either an edTube album or the Learning Place. Studio owners set the access permissions for staff and students in a studio. According to the permissions set staff and students can view, contribute or edit a page of a studio. All participants in a studio can leave status updates and collaborate on their work.

  • edTube

    is a multimedia sharing gallery where staff and students can store their audio, video and images in an album. Albums enable staff to set access and authoring permissions for all staff and students depending on the purpose and educational need. Teachers are prompted to approve media uploaded by a student before it is published in an album.

  • Learning Pathways

    allow staff members to create, copy and share an ordered collection of annotated quality assured resources and teacher uploaded learning materials. Staff can share their collection by marking it publicly searchable or by sharing the automatically generated access key. Students can enter the access key in their student space to access the teacher generated learning pathway.

  • Blackboard Collaborate Ultra

    is the department’s web conferencing system. Create online ‘rooms’ for staff and students to communicate securely within, in real time. Collaborate Ultra features a range of tools to share content and collaborate on whiteboards, through chat, VOIP and webcams. Collaborate Ultra supports student learning, professional development and training activities.

  • eLearn

    is a flexible online course and community environment for EQ students and staff. eLearn uses the Blackboard learning management system to deliver quality assured professional development courses, virtual classrooms and secure communities. It provides participants with access to courses or communities enabling communication, collaboration, reflection and learning at their own pace.

  • Virtual classrooms

    are a private, secure eLearn course space you can create to support staff and student learning. Staff can quickly and easily create their own course to deliver learning materials, discussions, and tests online. Digital content and media can easily be added and learning experiences can be enriched through the use of blogs, wikis and discussion boards. A Grade Centre allows for collating and tracking participant submissions of quizzes, assessments and surveys.

  • Manage courses (CAMS)

    supports staff to create courses and communities and manage their course/community enrolments.

  • Help centre

    provides help files, guides and tutorials for all areas of the Learning Place.

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Digital resources

Search thousands of quality assured digital resources including learning objects, teaching ideas, video, audio, reviewed educational websites and images.

Professional development courses and resources covering a wide range of topics are available for staff across the state to utilise and participate in, including induction and mandatory training, department policies and systems, leadership, teaching and technology. Most courses are accessed as a self paced learning opportunity through eLearn.

eResource Services  offers a range of digital materials to encourage a love of reading, to support teaching and learning and professional development.

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Last updated 08 November 2021