VET Teacher E-Learning Toolkit
The purpose of this information is to inform the development of vocational education and training (VET) Standard Operating Environments (SOE) to support the e-learning functionality required by teachers and trainers.
- Required web-based functionality
- Required desktop functionality
2. Required desktop functionality
| Licence Types | ||
| C = Commercial | CNC = Commercial No Cost | F = Freeware, Open-source, Free for use in Education |
| 2.1 Ability to author and view documents | |||
| Practitioners require the ability to create and view PDF, DOC, TXT and RTF files | |||
| Functionality | Examples | Licence | Notes |
| View PDF documents | Acrobat Reader http://www.adobe.com |
CNC | |
| View DOC, RTF and TXT documents | Microsoft Word Viewer http://office.microsoft.com |
CNC | |
| Create PDF documents | CutePDF http://www.cutepdf.com |
CNC | Different functionality exists within these tools. In some products, the ability to set security settings for PDF documents varies between commercial and free versions. |
| Acrobat Writer http://www.adobe.com |
C | ||
| Create documents | Microsoft Office http://www.microsoft.com |
C | |
| Open Office http://www.openoffice.org |
F | ||
| 2.2 Ability to play audio and video content | |||
| Minimum requirement for practitioners is the ability to play all media created in content formats recommended to VET by E-standards | |||
| Functionality | Examples | Licence | Notes |
| View FLV and SWF 9 content | Flash Player http://www.adobe.com |
CNC | Also plays other standard formats. Refer to website for info. |
| Play MOV, H.264/MPEG-4 content | QuickTime http://www.apple.com |
CNC | Also plays other standard formats. Refer to website for info. |
| Play WMA, WMV, DVD and MPEG-2 content | Windows Media Player http://www.microsoft.com |
CNC | Different functionality exists within these tools. In some products, the ability to set security settings for PDF documents varies between commercial and free versions. |
| 2.3 Ability to create and customise multimedia content | |||
| Minimum requirement is for practitioners to be able to create and customise multimedia content | |||
| Functionality | Examples | Licence | Notes |
| Record and edit audio | Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net |
F | Commonly used for creation of audio content for podcasting. |
| Take screen-captures | Wink http://www.debugmode.com |
F | |
| Snagit http://www.techsmith.com/ |
C | ||
| Create demonstration or interactive tutorials and assessments | Captivate http://www.adobe.com |
C | |
| Camtasia http://www.microtech.com |
C | ||
| Adobe Flash http://www.adobe.com |
C | ||
| 2.4 Ability to access and subscribe to information feeds (for example, RSS, podcasts and newsgroups) | |||
| Minimum requirement is for practitioners to be able to access, subscribe to, and download news feeds and podcasts. | |||
| Functionality | Examples | Licence | Notes |
| Subscribe and download | Newsgator http://www.newsgator.com |
CNC | Recent web browsers include news and RSS aggregators |
| Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net |
F | ||
