Australian Curriculum Connect
Australian Curriculum Connect is a project funded by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) to develop a technical approach that will assist each government and non-government education authority to implement the Australian Curriculum. It is creating a technical framework for sharing, discovering and using digital curriculum
resources in state and territory eLearning environments and in Scootle.
Education Services Australia is contracted by the Australian Government to manage the Australian Curriculum Connect project that will develop and trial tools and technologies to support curriculum-based learning. It will support school authorities to implement tools, technologies and the technical framework in a way that best suits their school system, should they chose to do so.
Australian Curriculum Connect is using a data locating and transmission technology to locate digital resources from a variety of sources and make them discoverable in a way that relates them to the Australian Curriculum. The project will:
- advance curriculum-driven discovery of digital learning resources
- deliver improved search results and ranking for digital learning resources
- enable improved access to shared digital learning resources
- support flexible implementation of the technical approach with tools and technologies available through local portals, Virtual Learning Environments or Scootle.
Australian Curriculum Connect is supported by the Standing Council on School Education and Early Childhood (SCEEC), the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) and the National Schools Interoperability Program (NSIP).
