The new association, Digital Learning and Teaching Victoria (DLTV), will come into effect on January 1, 2014.
“The decision to merge the organisations comes from, I suppose, creating some efficiencies and better servicing a wider audience of educators,” Joedy Wallis, DLTV’s CEO tells Australian Teacher Magazine.
The process which culminated in a unanimous ICTEV and VITTA member vote in favour of the amalgamation was a long one according to Wallis.
The idea has been bandied around for quite some time, and you know, with the Australian Curriculum coming through, [we wanted] some unity to deliver professional learning on that front …”
“It’s taken quite a process … to merge the minds and the outputs of both organisations, we’ve had both presidents working tirelessly to make this happen, and also the executive team[s] of those two entities.”
Wallis says there were a lot of meetings to be had, and decisions made about servicing members, developing new association rules, and an incorporated association had to be lodged with Consumer Affairs Victoria.
“We’re merging all of our financial infrastructure, our intellectual property and assets,” she says.
Wallis says combining the strengths of the two associations makes perfect sense.
“It’s going to be more cutting edge, our thinking can be greater, our influence nationally and internationally, not to mention across Victoria, will be greater, just because of the impact that we can have collectively.”
With a new association president to be elected at an AGM next year, preparation is underway for the year ahead.
“We really are going gung-ho if you like, to develop innovative ideas and innovative approaches to professional learning, to conferences, to how we’re going to deliver things into 2014 to prepare schools and support schools for digital technologies curriculum.”
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Quelle/Source: Australian Teacher Magazine, 05.12.2013
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