2.3.15 EdNA Online 

Lead  

education.au limited 

Origin 

Australia 

Background 

EdNA Online is managed by education.au limited, a non profit company limited by guarantee and owned by 

the Australian education and training Ministers. The project started off as a Search able Metadata repository 

 refer atory  (manual entry and harvested) of online web educational resources (webpages).  

The implementation of Education Network Australia (EdNA) provides a useful case study of diverse 

educational communities coming together to achieve common outcomes aimed at maximising the benefits to 

education of information and communications technologies. 

URL 

http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/page1.html 

Aims and 

EdNA Online is a service that aims to support and promote the benefits of the Internet for learning, education 

Objectives 

and training in Australia. It is organised around Australian curriculum, its tools are free to Australian 

educators, and it is funded by the bodies responsible for education provision in Australia   all Australian 

governments. 

As an information service, EdNA Online provides two key functions: 

A directory about education and training in Australia.  

A database of web based resources useful for teaching and learning.  

As a communications service, EdNA Online aims to promote collaboration and cooperation throughout the 

Australian education and training sectors and facilitate the growth of networks of common interest and 

practice. It appears that EdNA Online has developed into a sophisticated service that performs wider 

functions then just access to its own repository. EdNA Online's major customers are educational institutions 

not end users i.e. they provide educational resources not technologies. 

They provide discovery services not a digital repository 

They enable online communities rather than provide forums, chat and mail lists 

They integrate these services with existing institution's systems 

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