Guides

The documents below provide an insight into the design issues facing leading edge developers of online learning materials.

A guide to creating learning design for VET

A guide to creating learning design for VET (Word - 2MB)
A guide to creating learning design for VET was developed by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework.  The guide has been designed for learning designers in the Australian vocational education and training (VET) sector, seeking to plan and design online learning materials.  The purpose of this guide is to provide designers with a series of model learning designs that they can use to plan the learning environments.  The guide cannot capture all learning and design variables but provides information that is intended to inform the learning designer on how best these can be considered and dealt with.

Guidelines for Series 11 development of Toolboxes (2008)

Toolbox project guide - Series 11, 2008 (Word - 490KB)
This document provides project management, quality assurance and project deliverable guidelines. It is for use by Toolbox development teams to ensure successful delivery of a Toolbox product.

Technical specifications for Series 11 Toolbox developers, 2008 (Word - 517KB)
This document provides the technical specifications for Series 10 Toolbox development.

Guidelines for Series 10 development of Toolboxes (2007)

Toolbox project guide - Series 10, 2007 (Word - 442KB)
This document provides project management, quality assurance and project deliverable guidelines. It is for use by Toolbox development teams to ensure successful delivery of a Toolbox product.

Technical specification for Series 10 Toolbox developers, 2007 (Word - 466KB)
This document provides the technical specifications for Series 10 Toolbox development.

Guidelines for Series 9 development of Toolboxes (2006)

This document outlines general technical and project management guidelines and issues. It is for use by Toolbox development teams to ensure successful delivery of their final Toolbox product.

Toolbox project guidelines: Series 9 E-Learning resource development guide (Word - 540 KB)

Appendices:

A - Workspace user guide (Word - 328KB)

B - Index page links (Word - 177KB)

C - Technical specifications (Word - 190KB)

D - Toolbox developer style guide (Word - 316KB)

E - Proofreading guide and register (Word - 210KB)

F - POC review (Word - 186KB)

G - Teacher guide advice (Word - 471KB)

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Guidelines for Series 8 development of Toolboxes (2005)

This document outlines general technical and project management guidelines and issues. It is for use by Toolbox development teams to ensure successful delivery of their final Toolbox product.

Toolbox project guidelines: Series 8 E-Learning resource development guide (Word - 383 KB)

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Applying SCORM to Toolboxes

Some of the leading work in the field of interoperability has been done internationally using the collection of specifications in the Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM).

Given the increasing focus upon interoperability of learning resources within the AFL Framework, we decided to investigate the implications of applying this model to learning resources that had been developed specifically to cater for the Australian VET sector in the form of Toolboxes.

These projects were conducted between December 2003 and February 2004.

SCORM and Toolboxes - the impact of the SCORM standard (Word - 1.04MB) - Ralph Wirski (2004)

Potential Benefits and Challenges in the use of SCORM in VET (Word - 1.24MB) - Ian Kenny (2003)

IMS Content Packaging and Toolboxes (Word - 860KB) - Vlad Mezin (2004)

Technology for Sharing (PDF - 1.76MB) - Peter E. Higgs, Sam Meredith & Tim Hand (2003)

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Toolbox Implementation Guide

This Toolbox Implementation Guide has been designed to help you get started with your Toolbox, and is based on the experiences of training providers nationally who have been working with Toolboxes over the last few years. This guide focuses mainly on supporting teachers involved in Toolbox implementation, but will also be a useful reference for technical, support and other staff.

Toolbox Implementation Guide (Word - 190 KB)

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Vetadata Profile

This summary document describes the Metadata standard for the VET Sector (Vetadata) with particular emphasis on Toolboxes.

LOM Metadata Elements for AFLF Toolbox and Object Repository Projects (Word - 82 KB)

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Desired Characteristics of Toolbox Learning Materials

This extract from the Series 5 Tender Guidelines (2002) outlines the desired characteristics of the products.

Desired characteristics of Toolbox learning materials document (Word - 28 KB)

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Teaching and Learning Online

This PowerPoint presentation (courtesy of Ron Oliver) illustrates good practice in educational design with examples from the series 4 Toolboxes (2002).

Good Practice in Educational Design (PowerPoint - 1.9 MB)

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Make Your Toolbox Platform-Friendly

Research with LMS users provided guidelines for developing Toolboxes that provide  interoperability with delivery platforms. This document was first presented at the Series 5 workshop (2002).

Interoperability guidelines for developing Toolboxes (Word - 27 KB)

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Developing Content to Meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - Priority 1

Techniques for meeting the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (Priority 1) were  identified by teams piloting this approach in some Series 4 Toolboxes. This document was first presented at the Series 5 workshop (2002).

Techniques for meeting W3C Accessibility Guidelines (Word - 47 KB)

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Two Views of Customisation

A guide on providing for customisation of the Toolbox products was also presented at the Series 5 workshop (2002).

Two views of Customisation (Word - 29 KB)

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These documents are available in Portable Document Format (PDF) or Microsoft Word.

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