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Characteristics of Adult Learners
- Find out why pedagogy isn't ideal in VET and why it can limit student engagement

Curious Cats and Other Great Learning Ideas
- Acknowledge the vital importance of curiosity in skilling lifelong learners and explore ways to support learner engagement

Gen Y/Z students need to be engaged differently – Here’s how to do it!

 - Gen Y/Z learners need to be engaged differently, using interactive learning experiences which puts them at the centre of their learning

 

Increasing Student Engagement

 - How to foster interest from your learners and support them to maintain course progression

 

Psychology of Learning

- Entry-level discussion on principles, styles, theories and processes for learning

Ways to Help Students with the Course

- Help students with the theoretical requirements of their study

 

 

Assessment Questions Answered
- Live answers to the questions posed from the audience about designing and developing assessment tools

Assessment Writing Workshop
- Work through the requirements to write an assessment tool and during the session, make a start on the development of one for a unit of competency 

Bundle: Best-practice Mapping and Covering Unit Requirements
- Live answers to the questions posed from the audience about designing and developing assessment tools

Creating a Best-practice Mapping Document for Assessments
- Knowing how to create a precise and accurate mapping document is a key step in supporting the RTO’s compliance approach

Designing Assessment Tools
- Vital design-phase pointers to augment your current knowledge linked to the unit of competency TAEASS502 Design and develop assessment tools 

Developing Assessment Tools
- Vital development and testing-phase pointers to augment your current knowledge linked to the unit of competency TAEASS502 Design and develop assessment tools

How to determine whether an assessment covers unit requirements
- A validation of the assessment mapping document can save audit angst as it quickly identifies gaps in evidence being collected 

The Validation Plan - Planning for Compliance
-  Watch this session for an overview of how to construct the mandatory five year plan for validation

Top 5 Things Validators Look for in Assessment Tools
- Reduce the risk to your RTO by confirming your tools contain these top 5 things - the very things a validator will be looking for

 

Converting existing face-to-face classes into effective online sessions

- Taking your existing face to face classes into a webinar environment takes careful consideration and planning

 

Creating Audio Experiences for Digital Learning

 - Find out how to create and use audio tracks 

 

Creating Content for Digital Teaching and Learning (Bundle of 3 sessions)

- Simple, effective ways to create and edit videos for learning

 

Creating Learning Videos on your Smart Device

 - Simple, effective ways to create and edit videos for learning

 

Designing online quizzes for VET students

 - Designing online quizzes can be among the hardest forms of online design to get right, or to be used in the right way

 

Discovery Program: Create an online course using instructional design

 - 8 week course with full mentoring and support. Register for next intake

 

Eportfolios SWAY – Your Saviour to Workplace Assessing – Yay!

 - Help increase employer engagement in a student’s workplace training and assessment requirements

 

Getting the design right - Part 1 of Reducing the risk of assessing online

 - The best way to reduce the risk of assessing online can be by designing online assessments correctly

 

How to Get Blended Training Right in 2021

 - Adopting blended training strategies is a proven way to increase student engagement in any training environment

 

Managing online evidence to support compliance - Part 2 of Reducing the risk of assessing online

 - Assessing online means that you need to collect and store the assessment evidence so that it meets compliance requirements, and, if applicable, funding bodies

 

Managing plagiarism and cheating for online assessments

 - Auditors are especially concerned about authenticity of learner work when this work is submitted online

 

Nailing online training design

 - Designing online experiences which use current and contemporary online learning design and learner experience principles

 

Problem solving technical and human issues in webinar sessions

- Tips and tricks for resolving common problems and questions during webinar sessions

 

Reducing the Risk of Assessing Online (Bundle of 2 sessions)

- Getting the design right

- Managing online evidence

 

The next step in online delivery - collecting the right assessment evidence

- How to collect the right assessment evidence for online students and different ways to do this

 

Writing Content and Activities for Digital Teaching and Learning

 - Learn tips for the different ways to write for online learning content


 

Developing Students' Digital Literacy Skills

- Strategies to implement digital literacy development activities into your training program and prepare your students with the necessary skills to survive in a digitally disrupted world 

Foundation Skills - More than just a Training Package

 - Take a look at the background to Australia’s National Foundation Skills Strategy for Adults 

 

How to Develop LLN Assessments

- It is important that LLN assessments are developed to assist trainers in identifying the key LLN skill development needs of their learners and the related support required

 

Practical Ways to Build Foundation Skills and Improve Learner Results

- Understand what foundation skills are and how they apply to all parts of work and life - and how to help students build these skills

 

Trainer Chat - Digital Literacy

- Understand what foundation skills are and how they apply to all parts of work and life - and how to help students build these skills

Course Accreditation Myths - Busted!

-  An information session that explains a bit about accredited courses

Summary of Research into the Impacts of COVID-19 on Education
-  A helicopter summary of some of the research already available into how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed education

Compliance Tips and Tricks for RTO Administrators

- Why admin activity is relevant to compliance and why it is important to know how to complete various tasks in the context of a compliance framework 

 

Collecting Meaningful Evidence
- It's all about the evidence! AQF level, unit requirements and the basis for our assessment decisions

For Compliance's Sake: Black and White Thinking
- How a black and white mindset can help your RTO's compliance approach - especially when it comes to assessment development and validation processes

Say Do Show 1: Thinking about the TAS Differently
- Case studies based upon recent RTO and CRICOS provider regulatory experiences (remediation, reconsideration and AAT) and some of the learnings from those experiences

Say Do Show 2: It's ok to ask why
- Thinking about audits differently... it's ok to ask why a compliance decision is being made. It might open a dialogue to better understanding from both sides

The [trainer/assessor] Matrix
- Explore the differences between holding a unit, having competency, maintaining vocational currency, equivalent and non-equivalent units, and how all of this must be documented as evidence of being able to deliver training and assessment

Understanding the Impact of Volume of Learning
- Identify volume of learning responsibilities and determine the amount of training required for a particular program

Using assessment mapping as a QA & risk identification tool
- Find out how to use the assessment mapping document to support quality and compliance in your RTO

Vocational Competence and Currency in VET
- What happens when you don't 'hold' the unit

 

Hare or Tortoise: Who’s Really Running Your RTO?
- Consider trading the frenzied daily frazzle with a new sense of order, structure and calmness 

How to Boost Your RTO’s Profitability, Productivity and Performance
- The last thing managers need is to be spending their own time and energy solving staff problems

How to buy or sell an RTO
- Information session that is an absolute must if you’re in the market to buy or sell an RTO 

Say Do Show 3: Develop and Grow Offshore Training Fee For Service Opportunities
- Reduce dependency on funding by growing your fee for service (FFS) opportunities via offshore delivery partnerships and collaborations

Shh.. Don’t Mention The ‘S’ Word
- Especially with renewed focus on and expectation of self-assurance, this session is an excellent kick-start to having systems in place to support an overall quality system for your RTO 

To Grow or Not to Grow: That Is the Question
- Growing your RTO business should be a planned strategy rather than it happening by default or ‘good luck’

What's in Your RTO Suitcase?
- Quickly and easily address any baggage that may be impacting on the profitability, productivity and performance of your RTO’s business operations

Creating Real-world Training Environments
- Preparing students to be ‘work ready’ with environments where students can have job roles and be exposed to real workplace activities - complete with any associated problems!

Staying sane, saving time and leading learning
- Tap into a community of practice to share ideas and time-saving strategies to help daily practice and students to become more confident, active participants in the learning

Training Games that Support Learning Transfer
- Brush up on TAEDEL requirements to, in the course of facilitating learning, structure and deliver content and activities so that learning is maximised and audience interest is secured

Problem solving technical and human issues in webinar sessions
- Tips and tricks for resolving common problems and questions during webinar sessions