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Scoping a Certificate IV qualification for the delivery and assessment of foundation skills

Innovation and Business Skills Australia is scoping the development of a new Certificate IV qualification for inclusion in the TAE10 Training and Assessment Training Package. The proposed qualification will be designed to equip VET practitioners with skills and knowledge in...

May 5, 2012

Defining the development of a new TAS as a project

Learning Design

Defining the development of a new TAS as a project

Vocational Education and Training (VET) is learners focused training, therefore training in the VET sector must be personalised, customised to learner’s needs. VET training is training for a purpose, in other words, training outcomes must be identified and must be...

May 5, 2012

Developing Training and Assessment Strategies

Learning Design

Developing Training and Assessment Strategies

A Training and Assessment Strategy (TAS) helps you to plan and document key aspects of your program such as what it includes, how the training and assessment is organized and who will be involved. The Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations 2011...

March 2, 2012

Learning Design

Principled Presentations

Every hour, approximately 1.25 million PowerPoint presentations are being delivered in conference rooms, lecture halls, training centers and hotel meeting rooms around the world (Levasseru & Sawyer 2006). Presentation experts estimate a waste of $250 million per day from bad...

January 1, 2012

Learning Technologies

Plan your training sessions

During many years of experience in the training and education industry, I have identified some critical areas where trainers are likely to underperform or even fail. One of those areas related to trainer’s job is the development and use of Session...

November 11, 2011

Learning Technologies

Customising Competency Standards

Competency based training and assessment focuses on the development of competencies required for effective performance in employment. Most competency standards are designed to have a broad relevance to employment across an entire industry. The objective is to have workers who...

November 11, 2011

Learning Design

Using Simulations in Training

We begin learning by pretending. Play is an essential learning experience in our development, for in our childhood imaginations; the real world exists for us with all its possibilities, but none of the risks. As adults, too, we learn well...

November 4, 2011

Accelerate learning with examples – Part 2

Learning Design

Accelerate learning with examples – Part 2

For routine tasks, your examples should mirror the work environment as closely as possible. This means incorporating the equipment, application screens, forms that would be used on the job into your example. Describe graphics with audio (narration or instructor) and...

September 30, 2011

Learning Design

Visualise your content – Part 2

What Kind of visuals work best? As we discussed in the part 1 of this article, decorative visuals don’t help. In the table below, I summarised the four types of explanatory visuals that show relationship among content elements. Use relevant...

September 21, 2011

Learning Design

Visualise your content

No matter which learning architecture you use, slide after slide of text and more text makes for a boring session. And slides and screens that are walls of words fail to leverage one of the most powerful tools proven to...

September 20, 2011