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  • Using open source learning techniques to enhance professional development opportunities for the early childhood education and care sector in Australia

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    Macfarlane, Kym
    Cartmel, Jennifer
    Nolan, Andrea
    Pike, Marel
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Macfarlane, Kym M.
    Cartmel, Jennifer L.
    Pike, Marel J.
    Year published
    2012
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    In early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Australia, practice is situated largely across the health, education and community services sectors. Within these sectors, silos of practice exist (Press & Woodrow, 2005), which restrict the opportunities for knowledge exchange and create duplication of services and contribute to increased costs. Moreover, lack of knowledge exchange means that new ideas and approaches in particular sectors are often not completely understood in others, thereby increasing protectiveness of individual knowledge bases, limiting possibilities for leadership and integrated practice in the ECEC field ...
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    In early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Australia, practice is situated largely across the health, education and community services sectors. Within these sectors, silos of practice exist (Press & Woodrow, 2005), which restrict the opportunities for knowledge exchange and create duplication of services and contribute to increased costs. Moreover, lack of knowledge exchange means that new ideas and approaches in particular sectors are often not completely understood in others, thereby increasing protectiveness of individual knowledge bases, limiting possibilities for leadership and integrated practice in the ECEC field and fostering suspicion that decisions about particular practices/approaches are not evidence-based (Cheeseman, 2007). Such factors undermine, rather than enhance, possibilities for effective leadership in ECEC. This paper will report on an Australian Learning and Teaching Council grant, which provided possible solutions to these barriers. These solutions were enabled through the design of an open source learning environment, which allowed participants to better understand how these silos disrupt their practice and to develop some strategies for overcoming such barriers. Participants were also supported with a structured course within a learning management system to enable student interaction, facilitator support and consolidation of the theory/practice nexus via access to multiple resources.
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    Conference Title
    EdMedia 2012:World Conference on Educational Media and Technology
    Publisher URI
    http://www.editlib.org/p/40820
    Copyright Statement
    © 2012 AACE and the Education & Information Technology Digital Library (EdITLib). The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the conference's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/52245
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    • Conference outputs

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