Enhanced LORN

LORN, the vocational education and training (VET) system’s gateway to online training resources, was officially launched last week at the 2009 ACPET national conference in Canberra.

LORN provides a one-stop-shop for practitioners and training providers to access the latest in education and training resources, drawing on state and national repositories from across Australia.

LORN has been enhanced with a suite of new features, including:
· My LORN: visitors to the site can now register and create their own personalised space, which allows them to:
- download free learning objects and return to their personalised learning object list at any time
- create a shortlist or ‘wish list’ of learning objects for future download
- manage their profile, including personal information and password.
· Enhanced search functionality: learning objects can now be browsed by discipline, keywords, competency, licence, type and collection.

Speaking at the ACPET conference, LORN Business Manager, Kim Edgar, said the new LORN had proved extremely popular with test site users and was now being rolled out throughout VET.

“Through a simple three-step process, LORN users can access and download online training resources that meet their organisation’s needs. Training can be customised by mixing and matching resources from different national, state and territory repositories.

“LORN saves training providers time and money, by allowing them to share resources rather than having to develop their own. My LORN gives users even more control over their use of LORN for education and training development,” she said.

In the future LORN will be enhanced with a new ‘My purchases’ section which will allow users to purchase from multiple sources at the same time and to manage their purchases through LORN.
All LORN resources comply with nationally agreed standards so training providers can use them in a variety of learning management systems.

To check out the enhanced site, visit: http://lorn.flexiblelearning.net.au