Telstra

PLATINUM SPONSOR

Telstra provides network services and solutions to more than 200 of the world's top 500 companies. They rely on us to do business across 240 countries and territories and to enable greater productivity, efficiency and growth.

Telstra Next Generation Services™ give you the best of all worlds – the extensive skills and capabilities of our people and a rich portfolio of services delivered on our world-class Telstra Next IP™ network and Next G™ network – Australia's largest fully integrated national IP network. To ensure reliable performance, Telstra solutions are monitored and maintained from dedicated centres by experts using advanced systems and processes. Experienced professionals help you deploy, integrate and manage them, ensuring they work seamlessly with our networks and yours to deliver superior return on investment. And we provide a low risk path to new business models with an innovative product roadmap developed in partnership with Cisco Systems and Microsoft.

Our capability is your peace of mind, with every solution backed by one of Australia's largest and most qualified field and technical workforce and Telstra Enterprise-grade Customer Service™. In fact, our service standards are so exacting they've earned us full International Customer Service Standard certification and several awards, including the Customer Service Institute of Australia's prestigious national Best of the Best award in 2009.

Pearson

GOLD SPONSOR

At Pearson, we take learning personally. We believe education is for everyone and we provide the tools for people to learn: whatever their age, wherever they are, in whatever fashion they choose. Our textbooks, courses and resources are available as books, online and through multi-lingual packages distributed to teachers all over the world.

Pearson is the world's leading learning company. Our portfolio includes consumer publishing through Penguin and Dorling Kindersley, business information through the Financial Times and our educational business, Pearson International. Our innovation in developing textbooks, online testing, software solutions and integrated services puts us at the forefront of modern education.

Pearson International is the world leader in education publishing, with a range of imprints including Longman and Prentice Hall. More than 150 years of experience is married to the very latest technology to create interactive online learning that supports every learner, no matter what level they are at. We believe it is never too late to start learning - or start to enjoy it.

We provide education and assessment services in more than 60 countries. Products such as MyLabs, our bestselling revolutionary digital homework and assessment programme, are changing the way students learn and teachers teach worldwide. Edexcel, the UK's largest awarding body providing academic and vocational qualifications and assessment, is also part of the Pearson team.

Every day all over the world our products and services help learning flourish, and wherever learning flourishes, so do people.

eWorks

supporting ‘E-standards for Training'

BRONZE SPONSOR

eWorks supporting E-standards for Training
eWorks is a leading exponent of e-learning solutions and educational technology training. We manage and deliver high profile, tailored e-learning solutions for a wide number of organisations.

Our product suite will ensure the solution we offer is the right solution for your organisation.

Consultancy to analyse your organisational e-learning needs and support implementation
Content available, converted or designed to meet your needs
Delivery Platform fully hosted and integrated with the latest technologies to deliver your e-learning
Standards ensure the longevity and portability of your e-learning solution
Training to educate, inform and support your e-learning

Our personnel are recognised collectively and individually as experts with the capacity to lead and manage education and technical innovation.

E-standards for Training is part of the national training systems' e-learning strategy and is managed by eWorks on behalf of the strategy. Under the auspices of the E-standards Expert Group the E-standards team develops national standards to underpin essential e-learning infrastructure, conducts research into new technology areas and provides guidance materials and tools to implement the standards and support effective use of emerging technologies in the vocational education and training sector (VET).

E-standards are a vital part of the national e-learning infrastructure as they support collaboration across organisational boundaries, and establish a common technical platform which facilitates the exchange, development and testing of online resources. The E-standards for training website provides access to the E-standards research, ratified standards and implementation guidance and tools - e-standards.flexiblelearning.net.au

Copyright Agency

BRONZE SPONSOR

Copyright Agency was appointed by the Australian Government in 1990 to manage the provisions in the Copyright Act that allow educational institutions to use text and images without a copyright clearance, in return for fair payment to the creators and publishers of that material.

These provisions, known as the educational statutory licence, allow the use of almost all text and images, both printed and digital, for a range of educational purposes. They include scanning, printing, photocopying, storing on learning management systems, emailing, distributing via USB, altering and compiling with other resources. The statutory licence thus enables teachers to compile resources to meet learning outcomes from a range of sources that include books, journals, newspapers and material published online.

We use surveys completed by teachers to identify the creators and publishers whose works are used. We then use that information to allocate payments to creators and publishers from the copyright licence fees we collect.

Some material is available to teachers to use without reliance on the educational statutory licence such as material covered by a Creative Commons licence. Our processes include a range of mechanisms to identify that material.

To find out more, please visit www.copyright.com.au

makebook

BRONZE SPONSOR

The makebook platform improves English writing skills. The mission of the makebook platform is to develop and enhance every students’ written literacy.
makebook delivers the platform for:

Teachers to create and collaborate on writing models and scaffolds that interactively guide students’ extended writing development.
Teachers to develop and deploy guides, models and scaffolds in multiple languages, quickly and simply.
Students to interact with instruction and guidance, practicing online.
Extensive collaboration between Teachers, Students and peers through feedback, and marking.

The makebook platform delivers this across two unique campuses:

Purpose built for K – 12 schools, makebook campus connects teachers and students electronically (individually and collectively), in an integrated instruction and tutoring workspace.

The Better Writing campus provides an interactive workspace for students to practice and prepare for ITLS, PTE or TESOL examinations, worldwide. Better Writing offers students extensive English and native language models via interactive, multi-lingual guides.

Simon

BRONZE SPONSOR

SIMON is a web-based solution that runs on a powerful database system to provide relevant technical solutions to common school-based tasks.

SIMON was developed by teachers, for teachers as a collaborative project in the Ballarat Catholic Diocese and is now being used in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions both throughout Australia and internationally.

Education Technology Solutions

SPONSOR

Education Technology Solutions is Australia's leading education technology publication for principals, educators and network technicians, and has been created to inspire and encourage the use of technology in education.
Through its content, Education Technology Solutions seeks to showcase cutting edge products and practices. It introduces teachers and IT staff to the latest products, services and developments in education technology with a view to providing how-to guidance designed to facilitate the integration of those products and services into the school environment.
Visit www.educationtechnologysolutions.com.au to subscribe and find out more.