In this paper, Bruce King, Chief Executive Officer of Access Australia, discusses the role of the six Cooperative M... Show more
In this paper, Bruce King, Chief Executive Officer of Access Australia, discusses the role of the six Cooperative Multimedia Centres (CMCs) in Australia. Access Australia is the NSW CMC, and TAFE NSW and the Department of Education and Training Co-ordination (DTEC) are its shareholders.
Access Australia has as its central focus lifelong learning and multimedia. Bruce King argues that unless schools, TAFE colleges and universities change their methods of teaching and adopt new technologies, they will find themselves out of step with the way their students acquire information, interact with each other and engage with the world around them.
He also writes that CMCs have been created to push an agenda about doing things differently so that the potential for Australians to be more creative and effective in the workplace is maximised. This presents TAFE with a number of specific challenges, including:
the context within which courses are developed and delivered is changing faster than the process of course development and teaching;
the impact of new technologies shifts power relations between traditional providers of education and their students;
computers liberate individual learners.
The paper is one of many on technology in flexible delivery featured in this issue of 'Training agenda'.
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