The Learning Place is the department's comprehensive eLearning environment providing secure access to an innovative range of digital tools, resources and online spaces for teaching and learning, collaboration and networking.
The Learning Place supports contemporary teaching practice enabling today's learners to steer their own learning and arrive at their own ICT-enriched learning destinations.
The quality of teaching is critical to the process of learning. Successful learners are creative and productive users of technology moving easily between their personal learning environments and networking spaces (physical and online) to improve their knowledge, capabilities and understandings of our world.
The role of the teacher in a technology rich environment is to combine curriculum knowledge and understanding of the learner with effective teaching strategies to enable purposeful learning.
Digital teachers are empowered by their personal educational networks. They acknowledge themselves as learners on a journey that is exciting, challenging and connected.
Digital Pedagogy A range of digital pedagogy resources are available through the Learning Place. In 2013, a Contemporary Practice Resource will be developed to support contemporary teaching and learning practices.More…
Contemporary LearnersThe Learning Place provides contemporary learners with seamless access between school, work, home and play. Staff and students can work digitally in ways that pervade and impact on every aspect of their schooling and use personalised pathways to learning success.More…
OneChannelOneChannel provides access to live and on-demand educational programs. A range of OneChannel partners makes the PD calendar a rich and vibrant learning opportunity for EQ staff.More…
Online Literature FestivalHeld annually, this is the largest online literature festival in Australia. Each year students join authors across the world in online debates, writing workshops, web conferences and chats to create new characters and settings and explore the world of literature. Teachers are supported to use new ways of working and learning with ICT to facilitate quality learning experiences for their students.More…
Student ICT ExpectationsThe Student ICT Expectations identify the ICT knowledge, understanding, ways of working and skills that students in Queensland state schools are required to have the opportunity to develop from Prep to Year 10. They are to be used as a curriculum resource to support the implementation of the QCAR ICT Cross-curriculum priorities. More…
Technology, Architecture and Furniture programThe Technology, Architecture and Furniture program supports school leaders and teachers to create engaging and effective learning spaces for students.
The program brings together innovative design leaders and teacher leaders to share learning designs that enhance student learning in schools. More…
Learning Place staff spacesThe Staff space supports:
Learning Place student spacesThe Student space allows students to:
Learning Place public websiteThe Learning Place staff and student spaces are secure environments that require DETE authentication. Therefore, we also provide a public facing website for users who have temporary access to a specific system (e.g. enrolment in a PD course requiring temporary access to eLearn).
OneChannelOneChannel provides access to live and on-demand educational programs. A range of OneChannel partners makes the PD calendar a rich and vibrant learning opportunity for EQ staff. More…
eLearneLearn is a flexible course and community environment for EQ students and staff. eLearn uses the Blackboard learning management system to deliver quality assured online professional development and student learning courses, virtual classrooms and secure online communities.
eLearn enables teachers to create their own content in virtual classrooms or select from a wide range of Ready-to-go online courses to support staff and student learning. Staff can quickly and easily create their own course to bring learning materials, class discussions, and tests online. Digital content and media can easily be added to courses and communities and learning experiences can be enriched through the use of blogs, wikis and discussion forums.
For participants eLearn provides access to courses or communities enabling communication, collaboration, reflection and learning at their own pace.More…
Virtual ClassroomA Virtual Classroom is a private, secure eLearn space you can create to support teacher and student learning. Virtual Classrooms:
edTubeedTube is a multimedia sharing gallery where staff and students can store their audio, video and images in an Album. Media saved in Albums enable staff to set access and authoring permissions for all staff and students depending on the purpose and educational need. When students upload media to an Album, their teacher must approve before it can bee seen by others.
edStudioedStudios are drag and drop creative authoring spaces for staff and students. Staff and students can collaborate in the studio and use multimedia sourced from either an edTube album or the Learning Place.
Staff set the access permissions for staff and students in a Studio. According to the permissions set staff and students can view, contribute or edit a page of a Studio. All participants in a Studio can leave status updates and collaborate on their work.
Staff blogsThe Learning Place features a blog system that allows EQ staff to collaborate online and share experiences, teaching strategies and resources. Combined with a personalised tag system, staff blogs are powerful professional learning spaces.More…
iConnectiConnect is DETE's web conferencing system. It provides an online learning environment for staff and students to communicate securely, in real time. iConnect features a range of collaborative tools including:
Professional CommunitiesEducational networks can support their professional community activities through an online flexible, dynamic website. They can develop their own online professional communities to increase awareness of issues, build projects and online resources, meet online, run events and projects using the flexible community areas to promote, liaise and share ideas and experiences. More…
Manage Course (CAMs)CAMS supports staff to create courses and communities and manage their course/community enrolments. More…
eCurriculumThe eCurriculum is a practical and comprehensive online collection of Maths, English and Science resources. Teachers can adapt and extend this collection to develop quality learner-centred programs. The materials are quality-assured and align with QCAR Essential Learnings current scope and sequence planning documents. They will also be aligned to the Australian Curriculum.
The collection provides access to information and resources for English and Maths years 1 to 8 and Sciences years 4 to 7.
Each item in the collection contains:
Library servicesEducation Queensland Library Services provides three key services to support teaching and learning.
Quality assured digital resourcesSearching in the Learning Place will reveal thousands of quality assured digital resources including eCurriculum resources, learning objects, teaching ideas, video, audio, reviewed educational websites and images. More…
Learning PathwaysA 'Learning Pathway' is an ordered collection of annotated quality assured resources and teacher uploaded learning materials.
Learning Pathways allow a staff member to share their collection by either marking it publicly searchable, in which case it will display in the search results, or by an automatically generated access key. Student can enter the access key in their student space and they will access the teacher generated learning pathway.
A teacher can 'copy' a learning pathway and preserve credit to the original author. They can then edit the learning pathway to suit their needs.
Ready-to-go (RTG) coursesReady-to-go courses are self-contained online courses that have been written and developed by experts and are ready to use.
These courses have many different objectives, some have a specific curriculum focus (including revision and assessment), whilst others are designed to support a particular curriculum topic, concept or skill. Teachers use RTG courses as an integral part of their teaching, in face-to-face workshops, in rotational activity stations, or as complete online courses. There are hundreds of curriculum RTG courses available.
Professional development coursesThere are hundreds of quality assured PD online courses in a wide range of topics available for staff across the state to participate including:
