Webinar Recording: Enhancing Accessibility & Inclusivity in Vocational Programs

This introductory eLearn offers a guided tour of Australia’s VET system - where it came from, how it’s funded, how it’s regulated.

In this interactive webinar, innovative VET expert Shauna Farey presents a range of online tools and apps for eAssessments and shares how to critique each on their features and benefits.

This webinar pushes past limiting views to open up the extraordinary learning and teaching opportunities offered by digital learning technologies. In pushing through we also tackle misconceptions that limit our exploitation of what they can do.

Join us in putting together the pieces of the fairness puzzle. We consider fairness from learner, assessor and regulator perspectives and arrive at an integrated understanding. We work through expectations about reasonable adjustment, preserving assessment integrity and record keeping.

This webinar brings an opportunity to clear up that uncertainty about interpretation of industry engagement, that baffling record keeping requirement, that niggling query about third party arrangements. Ask an auditor!

In this webinar, participants investigated blending teaching practice, with an emphasis on careful planning, resources o support blended teaching and learning, and exploring the benefits of team teaching in successfully blending teaching.

This webinar explores strategies that combine to produce consistent student engagement. We work through ideas about building and sustaining a learning climate among your students. The webinar builds your resources for establishing a growth mindset – a habit of mind leading students to believe that by engaging and working hard, they will succeed.

In this webinar, you will gain confidence and capability in meeting industry currency expectations as set out in Standards for RTOs 2015 – what the standards are, what they require, practical strategies you can roll out to maintain currency, and what good evidence looks like for auditors.

This webinar introduces effective validation strategies and evidence gathering for compliance purposes.

This webinar examines key principles in blended learning which address the balance between teacher-initiated activity and learner empowerment. The webinar will help you determine which aspects of your classroom practice can enliven blended delivery models.

This webinar covers copyright for VET educators. Participants will be able to have specific questions answered, gain an understanding of what copyright is, how to work with it, what the risks are, and how to manage them.

This webinar explores strategic approaches to assessment for clustered units. We identify the fundamentals – keeping good assessment design simple, avoiding over-assessment and repetition, yet still collecting the necessary evidence.

This webinar will examine kinds of assessment best-suited to online formats. The webinar considers online assessment opportunities and limitations, and compliance factors you must account for.

This webinar strips down an assessment tool into its component parts. We examine the function of each part, and how to assemble a working version that supports teachers to fulfill their responsibilities, is clear to students, and meets audit expectations.

This webinar assists RTO staff to organise and monitor practical placements so that students maximise learning opportunities and outcomes. The webinar also provides guidance to RTOs about the characteristics of compliant practical placements.

This webinar enters the debate about competence and grading, explains the differences, and steps out valid and reliable approaches for both assessing competence and allocating a grade.

The webinar will explore options for using and completing marking guide remotely and on the job using digital technologies.

This webinar offers a guided tour of the system – where it came from, how it’s funded, how it’s regulated.

This webinar introduces a course template that captures Standard 1 evidence you want and need.

This practical webinar steps through the construction of effective, efficient observation checklists. You will build capability in extracting assessment criteria from units of competency, and develop understanding about what constitutes observable performance.

This webinar explains the purposes of peer review and how teachers can activate it in training and assessment. We look at the deployment of peer review in various teaching models, including blended and face-to-face learning.

This webinar invites you to consider options for frontloading quality assurance for assessment tools. Drawing on quality expectations set down in the Standards for RTOs (2015), we investigate the design and documentation requirements for best practice assessment tools.

This webinar examines clauses 1.8 – 1.12 of the Standards – the assessment clauses. We unpack the meanings and expectations wrapped up in them. You will take away an understanding of how to document assessment practice so your RTO’s guarantee is good and you are always audit ready.

View this webinar to extend your confidence in designing and conducting PTR processes that are learner-centred, informative, constructive and compliant.

This webinar shares your experiences of challenging classroom behaviours, unpacks what gives rise to them, and repacks them with management strategies that support change.

This webinar explores elements of a practice framework that promotes and sustains employer participation in assessment. We consider when workplaces are appropriate sites for assessment, assessors’ responsibilities, constraints on employer participation, and strategies for workplace evidence gathering.

This webinar unpacks the rules applying to each dimension, and explains how to demonstrate you’ve applied the rules in your assessment designs and practice. We’ll look at examples that miss the point, and examples that measure up to the right kind of evidence.

This webinar teases out such dilemmas and helps planners develop a ‘defensible argument’ for the volume of learning they attribute to a qualification and each unit within that qualification.

This webinar brings good news. With the guidance of a facilitator experienced in systematic validation, we clarify the expectations. The webinar introduces established understandings about efficient and effective validation processes that deliver both quality outcomes and compliance outputs (including documentation).

This webinar looks at characteristics of online learning spaces that influence the strategies trainers need to drive learning with the same confidence they exhibit in the classroom. The webinar explores a range of practices including monitoring student engagement, using collaborative documents, and the link between online facilitation and assessment.

This webinar regards evidence with the attentive eyes of a regulator and auditor. What passes muster in their view? We round up details about your responsibilities for collecting, keeping and locating evidence. And rather than filing an empty plate, we consider practical alternatives for evidence you can’t retain.

This eLearn explores what hybrid delivery is and the benefits and challenges of delivering learning in this way, incorporating some tools, tips and tricks you can implement to deliver a successful hybrid classroom.

This eLearn will help you to build your understanding of the impact that poor mental health can have on your learners and guide you to create strategies to support them as they strive to achieve their learning goals.

This eLearn explores trauma and the impact it has on our learner’s behaviours and emotions in the classroom and how to create a calmer class.

This eLearn explores the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) Standards that are relevant to delivery and assessment in VET and what this means to both Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) and the learners.

This eLearn explores how to identify appropriate AQF levels, choose methods of assessment that align and ensure our learners are assessed to the specific job outcomes that apply to a unit of competency.

This eLearn explores preparing and planning your presentations. Choosing tools and activities and online delivery tips.

This eLearn explores how leaders can empower their team through fostering a positive workplace culture and being open to curiosity.

In this interactive webinar we won’t seek to diagnose but be aware of the indicators of possible dyslexia and specific learning disorders and activate some simple strategies to accommodate and ensure everyone can learn!

This eLearn explores the contractual obligations for RTOs to ensure documentation is securely retained and protected from the elements, pests and unauthorised access.

This workshop addresses an issue many VET educators wish to know more about: how to support learners with learning differences and learning needs.

This course is appropriate for people who want to improve their understanding of CALD student and strategies to support CALD students. Completing this course will give you greater awareness in supporting your CALD students.

This course is appropriate for people who want to improve their understanding of CALD student and strategies to support CALD students. Completing this course will give you greater awareness in supporting your CALD students.

This course is appropriate for people who want to improve their understanding of CALD student and strategies to support CALD students. Completing this course will give you greater awareness in supporting your CALD students.

This course is appropriate for people who want to improve their understanding of CALD student and strategies to support CALD students. Completing this course will give you greater awareness in supporting your CALD students.

This course is appropriate for people who want to improve their understanding of CALD student and strategies to support CALD students. Completing this course will give you greater awareness in supporting your CALD students.

This course is appropriate for people who want to improve their understanding of CALD student and strategies to support CALD students. Completing this course will give you greater awareness in supporting your CALD students.

This course introduces the concept of self-care and looks at strategies that can be implemented and adopted into a regular self-care routine and the importance of ongoing self-care assessments to understand our own symptoms of stress.

This eLearn is appropriate for people who want to improve their practice by adopting a reflective process. Completing this course should result in a better understanding of what reflective practice is, why it is important to practice reflection as a part of our approach, and how it can benefit us and those with whom we work.

This eLearn explores Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and history since colonisation to gain ideas and strategies for better understanding and enhanced communication strategies when working with indigenous clients

The Australian Tertiary Education System is at a crossroad and is needing to re-establish its purpose and relevance for the future.

In the rush to get online during COVID lockdown in 2020, we sought to use what tools were available to us at the time. This included social media.

Roleplays are a great way to get students involved in their learning and practice workplace scenarios in a safe environment. But – how can they be used in an online teaching environment?

This webinar, led by blended training expert, Sarah Phillips, will explore the ins and outs of all facets of learning design as we identify the steps involved to create engaging and relevant learning for students across a range of industries.

How are you maintaining the delicate balance of collecting high quality third-party evidence, without it becoming a burden on the third-party?

Assessment validation is a review process used to confirm that an RTO’s assessment system can and is consistently producing valid assessment judgements. This webinar delivers a pragmatic approach to conducting effective assessment validation. You will learn methods and techniques for validating assessment tools.

In this webinar Karen will share a range of feedback strategies not only from teacher to student, but from student to teacher and student to student. Effective Feedback helps learners grow!

This session will provide a framework of good practice focusing on engagement, supportive learning environments, and supported pathways which you can embed in your delivery

This session will explain the challenges and opportunities AI offers to RTOs as well as providing an update on the latest AI developments.

You will learn about how important the ACSF and VLSF are in relation to embedding literacy in your teaching practice.

Our introductory session is designed for practitioners with theoretical knowledge and practical experience in training and assessment. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your teaching prowess and positively influence your students' learning experiences. Register now and take the first step towards mastering the art of teaching!

With digital skills specifically featured in the new RTO standards, this is a timely discussion for us to be having. This 90-minute session is packed full of useful insights, and there’ll be plenty of opportunities for interaction and questions.

Are you seeking to expand your cultural competence and contribute to a more inclusive and understanding environment? Join Jillian West as she provides a deeper understanding of the rich and diverse cultures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Are you struggling to keep your learners engaged? If so, join Matthew Dale and Ash Quarrell on this engaging webinar, “Using Gamification in VET to Engage Learners”, where they will demonstrate how using gamification can be your solution to keeping learners engaged.

Long days, limited language, limited literacy? No worries.

Join Kay for this introductory session as she explores Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and how it impacts on teaching and learning.

This webinar aims to illuminate the complexities of trauma and its effects on learning.

This session is part of the ‘VET Teaching Series: Practice’ which has been designed as an interactive hybrid workshop to draw on educational theory and VET policy to: promote reflective practice, build advanced training and assessment skills, understand learning design and, apply teaching and learning strategies to challenge and motivate individual learners.

This two part eLearn was developed for anyone interested in or already working as a notetaker, with a particular focus on notetaking for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. Each module provides valuable information, practice activities and resources.

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The unconscious mind is a reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories. Bringing some of these unconscious biases into our conscious mind will assist us in becoming more aware of our classroom interactions and contribute to us better catering for our students.

This webinar discusses the self-assurance concept and focusses on best practice for how we collect, analyse and interpret data/information to embed continuous improvement across our organisation.

This session embeds theory into practical situations and encourages educators to reflect on the way student learning occurs.

In this interactive webinar we won’t seek to diagnose but be aware of the indicators of possible dyslexia and specific learning disorders and activate some simple strategies to accommodate and ensure everyone can learn!

Exploring AI tools for Tertiary Education Providers

This session will provide a framework of good practice focusing on engagement, supportive learning environments, and supported pathways which you can embed in your delivery.

Embark on a cognitive journey through the mechanics of the learning mind as purported by the research of Sweller, Mayer and Neilsen.

Join Raj Selvam for this important 90-minute webinar exploring techniques, tools and trauma informed practices to support disadvantaged learners when delivering Cert II and III level qualifications.

Join assessment expert, Kevin Ekendahl for this essential webinar to learn how you can make sure your assessments are meeting the AQF level requirements.

This webinar will look at how to design and develop online learning which will ensure learners are engaged in the learning and are able to successfully complete their training program.

This webinar shall cover key factors that support the delivery of apprenticeships and traineeships that comply with the requirements of competency-based progression and completion.

In this webinar you will develop core security awareness and how you can educate your learners, team, friends, and family about cyber-attacks.

During this session, we will delve into the topic of digital literacy and how it is an addition to the core skills of language, literacy and numeracy.

Join us for this engaging session where we draw from the latest VET research and contemporary cognitive load theories applied to PowerPoint design. Learn what your learners really think and see firsthand the impact of slide design on engagement and outcomes.

This session will highlight the importance of accessibility and inclusivity, identify common barriers, and provide practical solutions such as implementing Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, leveraging assistive technologies, and fostering inclusive curricula.

ADHD is being frequently diagnosed amongst adults and particularly women. In this chat we will investigate the symptoms of ADHD, the strategies to employ in teaching adults with ADHD and how to support them to successful outcomes.

This session will deepen your understanding of neurodiversity, offering practical strategies to better support and connect with these learners.

Learn how to build respectful relationships and create a supportive learning environment that promotes engagement and pathways to success. Join Feren Yen for this webinar, "Supporting CALD Learners," to explore how supporting CALD learners might look like in your classroom.

This online session will unpack the concept of Micro-Credentials and Digital Badges. After this webinar you will develop an awareness and understanding of best practices in the VET sector and potential application in your RTO.

This eLearn course is designed to introduce participants to the concept of transformative learning and how it can be effectively applied in family violence training.

Is your RTO ready to embrace the new Standards for RTOs that come into effect this year? These new standards place the responsibility on RTOs to provide quality training and support for learners.

Join Kay for this introductory session as she explores Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and how it impacts on teaching and learning.

This introductory webinar led by Kevin Ekendahl, will provide participants with a foundational understanding of inclusive curriculum design, focusing on creating learning pathways that cater to diverse student needs.

This Webinar Recording is a ‘must-see’ for all trainers and assessors grappling with the rapidly changing assessment landscape with AI in education.

This recording explores academic integrity and assessment in the context of Generative AI application such as ChatGPT.

This webinar recording explores key areas of ethical concern with GenAI, and their relevance in education.

Learn how mapping learning resources and assessments can be used to provide an overview of the skills and knowledge contained in each unit of competency.

In this webinar recording, you'll gain insights into how the brain and body respond to stress and learn practical techniques to reduce stress for yourself and your students. Discover the fundamentals of stress, explore effective stress reduction strategies, and learn how to implement these techniques in your daily routine.

Delve into the topic of digital literacy and how it is an addition to the core skills of language, literacy and numeracy.

Discover how Generative AI can revolutionize your teaching methods and enhance learning outcomes.

This webinar recording will deepen your understanding of neurodiversity, offering practical strategies to better support and connect with these learners.

Learn how to build respectful relationships and create a supportive learning environment that promotes engagement and pathways to success.

Discover how text, audio, image, video, 3D, and code generation tools are shaping the near future of GenAI. Designed for trainers, assessors, and team leaders, this recording will provide a comprehensive overview of generative AI and its applications.

Are you seeking to expand your cultural competence and contribute to a more inclusive and understanding environment?

Embark on a journey into the fascinating world of Generative AI (GenAI) with an introduction to key concepts including how models are constructed, where the data comes from and how it is used.

The VDC Professional Learning Fellowship offers an immersive, blended learning experience designed for VET educators from Australia-wide educational settings. This comprehensive program will build upon your teaching practice and leadership skills, helping you make a meaningful impact on the VET sector.