Education.au
| Non-for-profit | |
| Industry | Information Technology, Education |
| Headquarters | Dulwich, South Australia |
Key people |
Dr Tom Stubbs, Chairman Greg Black, CEO |
Number of employees | < 100 |
| Website | Education.au |
Education.au Limited, established in 1996, was a not-for-profit ministerially owned national company located in Adelaide, South Australia. It was governed through a Board by nominees from the Australian Government, higher education, school education, and vocational education and training sectors.
Education.au Limited acted as an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) agency for educators and delivered a range of web services to clients in the higher education, schools education and vocational education and training sectors. This included managing and maintaining the free national online services myfuture,[1] edna,[2] administering the edu.au.[3] and providing the technical capability behind services such as Scootle.[4]
History
Originally founded as the Open Learning Technology Corporation Ltd, the company was established in 1993 to facilitate and coordinate collaboration in the use of education communications and related open learning techniques by providing appropriate education, technological and project management services to schools, TAFE, higher education, industry and adult and community education sectors.[5]
The company changed its name in February 1998 to Education.au Limited with a focus on implementing the functions of Education Network Australia (EdNA) on behalf of the Australian education community.[5]
Education.au Limited also held national Transforming Learning through ICT seminars each year and in 2007 brought Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and danah Boyd to Australia for its seminar series.
In March 2007, Pru Mitchell gave a paper[6] on Education.au metadata and folksonomies of educational multimedia resources such as podcasts and videos at Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers Conference in Melbourne. She mentioned developing ScOT (Schools Online Thesaurus).[7]
In June 2009 it was announced that Education.au Limited would merge with the Curriculum Corporation in Melbourne to become Education Services Australia (ESA).[8] Curriculum Corporation, like Education.au Limited, was also a non-for-profit ministerially owned company. The merger saw Education.au's operations absorbed into Curriculum Corporation, which then changed its name to Education Services Australia.
Education.au Limited ceased operation under its current business name on 26 February 2010, from 1 March 2010 it began trading as Education Services Australia. Education Services Australia operates from out of two offices with its headquarters based in Melbourne (previously the office of Curriculum Corporation) and an office in Adelaide (previously the offices of Education.au). In December 2012 the Adelaide office of ESA was closed.
EdNA was retired. This was a leading educational Web index in Australia.