e-learning librarian’s toolbox

Anyone seen this site? Students can review courses and schools/universities.

http://www.hotcourses.com.au/australia/home.html

http://www.hotcourses.com.au/australia/university/bremer-institute-of-tafe-australia/115254/uni.html

Internet filtering is a hot issue at the moment. Site blocking in QLD TAFE has been bad for a while.

I especially like some of the comments, especially the second one:

“The education of students MUST include training on how to make a decision based on their moral compass and community expectations.

The more we “shield ” our children – the less likely they will be able to make considered and appropriate decisons in adult life.

We need to “teach” them how to identify right from wrong / how to identify good from bad / what to do when they don’t know an answer. “

This is VERY interesting reading and will have major implications to TAFE Queensland. I hope they have taken into consideration the fact that TAFE Queensland are becoming statutory authorities within the next couple of years.

“A nationally run vocational education and training system – widely considered as desirable, but politically unfeasible – is now on the cards, with the Bradley review panel calling for the federal government to assume full responsibility for regulating all post-school education by 2010. “It is no longer helpful to see stark contrasts between higher education and VET in the level and types of qualifications they deliver,” the report says.”

Read more here.

Nov 11 2008: “With universities storing ever more teaching resources online, how do students and tutors find what they need? European researchers have devised novel ways to classify and locate teaching materials – and in eight different languages.”

More at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081111074647.htm