What is the Digital Education Revolution?
Through the Digital Education Revolution initiative, the Australian Government aims to bring substantial and meaningful change to teaching and learning in Australian schools. It will prepare students for further education and training, jobs of the future and to live and work in a digital world. The Australian Government is committing new funding of $2.2 billion to provide: • through the National Secondary School Computer Fund, schools are granted funds to assist them to provide for new or upgraded information and communications technology (ICT) for secondary students in Years 9 to 12, and • through the Fibre Connections to Schools initiative, a contribution of up to $100 million to support the development of fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) broadband connections to Australian schools. The other elements of the initiative: • $32.6 million over two years to supply students and teachers across Australia with online curriculum tools and resources to support the national curriculum, and confere
