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JANET Training:
Before and After
Online Educa
They Came, They Saw,
They Implemented
JANET (UK) is due to implement their
new online training facility EdLab,
powered by Fronter. The JANET network
is responsible for connecting
all UK universities, FE Colleges, Research
Councils, Specialist Colleges
and Adult and Community Learning
providers.
After meeting and speaking to Fronter
staff at the Online Educa Berlin Conference
in 2006, the group within JANET
(UK), responsible for delivering training
to JANET technical staff, soon began
the process of implementing the
Fronter Open Learning Platform into
the new online training system. EdLab
powered by Fronter, is a state of the
art online training facility, was tested
last year, and plans to go live in early
2008.
JANET Training has designed a system
that will provide four main facilities
for staff from JANET connected organisations:
1. Platform for collective access to
resources, tools, support, and collaboration
between individuals and
organisations in areas relating to
network provision.
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With EdLab, free access to resources
and collaboration tools relating to the
network will be available, including interactive
flash animations, simulations,
audio content, video clips and links to
technical documents.
2. Platform to deliver online courses
and events.
EdLab will be able to administer both
scheduled and unscheduled courses depending
on the delegate’s situation and
needs. Using the ‘Learning Path’ tool,
courses can be structured in a way that
guides the user along a specific path,
through different tasks. These courses
can be set up for a specific time, or left
open so that delegates may complete
the course at their convenience.
3. Platform for support and provision
of the JANET Training system.
Users who are either going to take part
in a training course, are presently enrolled,
or have already completed a
course, will be able to access specific
rooms, forums and resources, relating
to their stage in the training process.
4. Platform for Trainer Support.
EdLab will provide support for the
trainers who are leading the courses offered
by JANET Training. The platform
will enable trainers to be efficiently
linked into a network support system,
from which they can communicate
with fellow trainers, access resources,
and advance their own personal skill
development.
Gill Chester, Training Manager at JAN-
ET Training, explained that, ‘one of the
main assumptions of this new online
service is that, the individuals who will
utilise the system are knowledge workers
skilled in the use of online tools to
search and retrieve information. If we
can support and utilise this knowledge
construction, we will create a powerful
tool for personal development. We
believe that this is an exciting opportunity
to build a system based on ‘community
of practice’ and the emerging
‘knowledge and decision support’ theories.’
Gill Chester,
Training Manager,JANET Training.
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