LEARNING RESOURCES

Learning Resources (LRs) are any digital or non-digital educational resource with a learning purpose. These resources are designed to be used directly by the student learners and or integradted into teacher developed lesson plans.

Teaching Resources (TRs) are any educational resource, digital or non-digital that supports teachers in curriculum development, delivery and pedagogy ot teacher trainers in the delivery if professional development programs.

Professional Development Materials (PDMs) are any digital or non-digital education training and development resource or program designed with a training and development purpose. Such programs may contain or reference LRs and TRs.

The LRs, TRs and PDMs:

i)  may be accessed directly from the web based repository and, or
ii) availability is communicatedc by the system.

The LRMDS catalogue may also contain information relating to the persons that may be accessed to support teaching and learning of local culture through oral traditions, story telling and with indigenous language expertise.

RESOURCE FORMATS

Resources accessed and located via the LRMDS may be provided in one or more of the following formats:

Non-Digital:
(print based) Training and teaching manuals, workbooks, lesson plan guides (e.g. PROBE, SEDIP materials, BEAM printed Learning Guides), visual aids or reference books.

Digital:
Lesson plan guides (e.g. BEAM online), worksheet activity, manipulative & interactive learning resource, training modules, CD’s, videos, DVD and referenced, quality assured websites.