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e-Grad School (Australia). e-Grad School (Australia). A virtual graduate school to operate in Australia and internationally; Funding from DEST Collaboration and Structural Reform (CASR) to ATN Deans and Directors of Graduate Schools;
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e-Grad School (Australia) • A virtual graduate school to operate in Australia and internationally; • Funding from DEST Collaboration and Structural Reform (CASR) to ATN Deans and Directors of Graduate Schools; • Offering pathways to a formal qualification in research management from 2007; • Business plan being developed.
Online sub-projects included in the e-Grad School framework • Generic capabilities (transferable skills) • Career Preparation • University Teaching • Research culture enrichment • Information Literacy (LATN to develop) • Research methodology and design • Supervisor Development
e-Grad School Access Project Goals • To provide a federated authentication infrastructure for users in Australia and internationally of e-Grad school (Australia) services. • To test its feasibility and workability through its use in the large scale project which involves the e-Grad School with its multiple service providers and nationally distributed user base. • Objectives • Establish all five ATN universities as Identity providers in the federation. • Promote the growth of the federation Testbed. • Use the opportunity offered by a project with multiple server providers to develop infrastructure with application to other projects. • Replace in-house developed infrastructure with standards based technology to reduce administrative overheads and improve security and simplify the process of authentication for clients.
INFO-Scholar: information literacy for research success • Collection of web pages with multi-media features; • Located on QUT library web site; • 10 online modules; • Links back to LATN home web sites for supplementary materials.