EPICT Australia is the national authority for the European Pedagogy in ICT (EPICT); this initiative for teacher professional development is aimed at training and up skilling existing teachers and trainee teachers for the digital age.

EPICT is one of the very few  if not the only  trans-national approach to PD in the pedagogical application of ICT in teaching and learning. EPICT is not just about learning ICT skills; it is how to pedagogically apply those skills in student education. A European programme that is well-documented, tested, evaluated and in operation in nine European countries in the area of in-service teachers professional development in pedagogical ICT integration.

EPICT Pilot Program

EPICT Australia has recently trained the inaugural group of facilitators.The pilot EPICT program commenced term 4, 2008 and will be completed by term 1 2009. The EPICT Licence course will be available for providers and participants, July 2009.

The Australian Perspective

'Pedagogies that integrate information and communication technologies can engage students in ways not previously possible, enhance achievement, create new learning possibilities and extend interaction with local and global communities'. Australia’s Teachers: Australia’s Future (2003)

'.....teachers must be provided with the training necessary to become skilled users of technology in education and they must be offered effective support, both technical and pedagogical, to use the technology.' Address to The Australian Computers In Education Conference,Canberra, 1 October 2008 by the Hon Julia Gillard MP, Minister for Education

'ICT can be used to improve the students’ skills, but it requires that teachers have been trained to use ICT pedagogically in order to include the use of ICT in their planning of their lessons'. MCEETYA ‘Learning in an online world’ 2005