Our learning resources

The Le@rning Federation (TLF) develops or licenses high-quality digital learning resources - both interactive learning objects and single items (images, film clips, sound recordings etc) - all of which are discoverable in this repository.


For the most recent update of learning resources published by TLF, view the Content Release Notes


Learning Objects


Learning objects are interactive, multimedia resources designed for Australian and New Zealand curriculums.


Learning objects:

  • enable students, individually and collaboratively, to work with complex content and ideas in new and dynamic ways. For example, students can manipulate and experiment with variables, explore simulations, design and publish storyboards, prepare exhibitions with authentic artefacts, and explore new concepts in game formats
  • challenge students to question, investigate, analyse, synthesise, solve problems, make decisions, and reflect on their learning
  • contain scaffolded learning tasks that provide feedback to students on their learning in a variety of supportive and engaging ways
  • often contain a print out which can serve as a record of student learning that can be used as an item of assessment; for display or as a basis for discussion
  • are being used by teachers in a range of different ways to meet the needs of their curriculum and the differing learning needs of their students.

For example, the learning object �Dream machine: metaphors� (L862) provides engaging learning activities guiding students to recognise and use metaphors to enhance their writing.





Catalogues describe the complete suite of learning objects available. Learning objects are also grouped, often with digital resources, into concepts, themes or series called Collections. Collections are discoverable in the Content Repository.


Digital Resources


In addition to interactive learning objects, TLF also makes available single digitised items sourced from Australia and New Zealand's premier cultural institutions. These items may be a section of moving image footage; an image of a document, line drawing, painting, or map; a photograph; an audio file of a song or broadcast; or a set of items.



Each digitised item typically includes a Description, authoritative information about its educational value and an acknowledgement of its source.



For example, 'Future citizens', from the National Film and Sound Archive, is a clip from a story in the weekly movie newsreel, Westralian News, in early October 1947. It shows young post-war English migrants, both girls and boys, disembarking from the liner 'Asturias' at Fremantle.



National Film and Sound Archive

Unlike learning objects, digital resources have no in-built learning design. Teachers and students can use the items flexibly for a range of different purposes.




Sources


TLF licenses digital resources from Australian and New Zealand cultural institutions. Currently these sources include:

  • National Film and Sound Archive
  • National Archives of Australia
  • National Library of Australia
  • National Gallery of Australia
  • Australian Film Commission
  • Film Australia
  • Australian Children's Television Foundation
  • Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
  • CSIRO Entomology
  • Powerhouse Museum
  • History Trust of South Australia
  • National Library of Australia National Trust of Australia (WA)
  • Art Gallery of South Australia
  • Museum Victoria
  • John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library
  • Getty Images
  • Private collections
  • Australian Museum
  • Australian Voices Project
  • State Library of Queensland
  • Australian War Memorial