Successful completion allows each student to receive a Graduate Certificate, or alternatively, the credits may be applied towards a Postgraduate Diploma, Masters degree or professional doctorate. Originally developed to meet the Education Department's professional development needs, especially for teachers outside the Perth metro area, it has already attracted many teachers from independent and Catholic schools, the eastern states and overseas. Flexibility is the hallmark of this course.
Teachers can start at different times, proceed at different rates and finish at different times.
In Technology in the Classroom, teachers integrate appropriate learning technologies into their own teaching, prepare lesson plans that utilise multimedia and the Internet, and present a teaching portfolio. Regardless of those individual choices, however, all teachers completing the course successfully will be able to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of a range of information technologies appropriate to the teaching and learning outcomes of the Curriculum Framework, as well as the confidence and competence to use appropriate learning technologies in their day to day professional lives. This problem is especially acute in remote areas, where access to appropriate professional development ranges from inadequate to nonexistent. They are tools to achieve an outcome, not an outcome in themselves. Success will be shown by what teachers and students achieve and can do, not by the number of machines sitting in classrooms.