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Learning On Demand - NBN's Emerging Revolution

Matt Ralph

Learning-on-Demand - NBN's Emerging Revolution
For the K-12 NBN Stream: In April 2009 The Hutchins School became first school in Tasmania to join AARNET.

How have we used our connection:
Management:

  1. General internet usage – quotas (we don’t have any!)
  2. Restrictions – users throttled to 64K after 100MB file size download
  3. Acceptable Usage Policy (AUP) – responsible usage, encouraging usage, encouraging mobile device usage
  4. Culture – started with AUP, expectation that staff will discourage time-wasting, usage reporting facility on firewall
  5. CyberSafety – Greg Gebhardt, cybersafety sites promoted, other steps taken
  6. Copyright awareness – smart-copying site, policies, Turn-It-In, Citation
  7. Security – firewall, antivirus, spam server

Benefits:

  1. Incoming Speed - The AARNET difference – before and after. From ADSL speeds as low as 294K to AARNET 1GB Fibre.
  2. Outgoing speed – using SharePoint as an Intranet and File Server
  3. AARNET and Akamai unmetered content (Microsoft Update)
  4. Large file transfer
  5. Video Conferencing - potential
  6. Ability to investigate emerging technologies: Second Life, Steam - machinima/video convergence

The Future:

  1. The further convergence of technologies, particularly video and animation.
  2. Learning-on-Demand: The rise and rise of video streaming, Learning Management Systems (LMS), increasing ease of multimedia lesson capture and their convergence.
    Matt Ralph's Biography

    Matt completed a Bachelor of Computing before joining The Hutchins School as Computer Systems Officer in 2003.

    Responsible for systems administration, user support and staff training he is primarily end-user driven, promoting decisions on systems implementation, and encouraging emerging technologies, based on the core business of teaching and learning in the K-12 sector.

    Matt is very excited at the role that rich media, particularly video and animation, increasingly has to play in the emerging NBN and other broadband strategies, and is actively training in and investigating rich media production and its use in education.