Teaching & Learning Strategies

Webinar Recording: Blending Online with Face to Face Training

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.

Webinar Recording: Bring Learning Alive to Engage Students

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.

Webinar Recording: Teaching Strategies for Challenging Behaviours

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

eLearn: Hybrid Delivery Using Digital Tools

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.

eLearn: Teaching Students with Anxiety

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.

eLearn: Trauma Informed Teaching

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.

In-Person Workshop: Helping Learners with LLN & Learning Needs

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

Family Violence Program: Teaching Students from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Background

eLearn: Family Violence Program- Communicating with students with a CALD background

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.

Family Violence Program | Deep Dive Webinar: Teaching Students with Anxiety

Swinburne Professional Learning Program: Structuring Effective and Engaging Lessons

Swinburne Professional Learning Program: Real Time Feedback

Webinar recording: Kylie's webinar

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.

webinar recording: DG

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.

Webinar Recording: Emma's Webinar

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.

Webinar Recording: Alon

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.

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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.

eLearn: Family Violence Program- Self-care

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.

eLearn: Family Violence Program- Reflective Practice

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.

eLearn: Family Violence Program- Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Training

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

Webinar Recording: Micro-Credentials & Digital Badging in VET

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

Webinar Recording: Social Media in Online Learning

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.

Webinar Recording: Making the Most of Roleplays Online

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?

Webinar Recording: Refining Online and Blended Courseware

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.

Webinar Recording: Effective Feedback

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!

Deep Dive Webinar: Teaching Students with Anxiety

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

Webinar: AI – Changing VET Delivery and Assessment

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

eLearn: Embedding Literacy in Your Teaching Practice

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

Deep Dive Webinar: Teaching Essentials for New Teachers and Trainers

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!

Deep Dive Webinar: Learner Digital Skills – What Do We Know, What Can We Do

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.

Webinar: Indigenous Cultural Awareness

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.

Deep Dive Webinar: Using Gamification in VET to Engage Learners

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.

Hybrid Workshop: Engaging learners in Foundation classes

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

Hybrid Workshop: Learning & Teaching - Autism Spectrum Disorder

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

Webinar: AI & Assessment (VET focus)

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

Deep Dive Webinar: Introduction to Trauma-Aware Education

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

FREE deafConnectEd eLearn: Notetaking for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students & The Practice of Notetaking

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.

Webinar Recording: Supporting Vulnerable Learners in VET

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.

Webinar Recording: Cyber Security for VET Teachers

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

Webinar: Digital Literacy Mapping

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.

Deep Dive Webinar: Essential Insights for Good Slide Design

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.

Deep Dive Webinar: Enhancing Accessibility and Inclusivity in Vocational Programs

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.

Webinar: ADHD in Adult Learners: Symptoms, Strategies and Support

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.

Deep Dive Webinar: Neurodiversity 101

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

Deep Dive Webinar: Supporting CALD 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.

Deep Dive Webinar: Micro-Credentials & Digital Badging in VET

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.

eLearn: Family Violence Program - Transformative Learning

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.

Deep Dive Webinar: Crack the Assessment Code

Don’t let another term pass with underwhelming results and overwhelming workload. Leverage this workshop to turn your assessments from pain points into powerful learning tools, and watch learner satisfaction soar!

In-Person Workshop: Learning & Teaching - Autism Spectrum Disorder

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

Webinar: New Standards - VET Student Support

In this session, led by Kevin Ekendahl, we will focus on Learner Support in the New Standards for Registered Training Organisations.

Webinar: Inclusive Curriculum Design - Creating Learner Pathways for All

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.

Webinar Recording: Digital D in LLND

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

Webinar Recording: Enhancing Accessibility & Inclusivity in Vocational Programs

This recording 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.

Webinar Recording: Neurodiversity 101

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

Webinar Recording: Supporting CALD Learners

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

Webinar Recording: Indigenous Cultural Awareness

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

VDC Professional Learning Fellowship 2025

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.

VET National Teaching & Learning Conference 2025: From Competence to Excellence – Taking the Journey

The VET Development Centre has a proud 20-year tradition of providing one of Australia’s leading teaching & learning conferences for Vocational Education and Training. The VET National Teaching & Learning Conference 2025 will be held in-person at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre on the 14 & 15 of August.

Deep Dive Webinar: How to use AI to develop training & assessment resources

Tired of spending hours developing training and assessment materials? Discover how free AI platforms streamline resource creation.

Deep Dive Webinar: ADHD in Adults Learners (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) Symptoms, Strategies and Support

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.

Deep Dive Webinar: We are MAD (Busy versus Productive behaviours)

In this 90-minute virtual workshop, Maria Andrews tackles the myths of multitasking, productiveness and encourages leaders to look at new ways of measuring productivity and the value assigned to work and performance. This workshop will give team leaders, supervisors and managers new insights into the way they assign work and set goals for performance and productivity.

VET Chat: Accommodating multicultural students' needs in VET classrooms

How to attract multicultural students into your class, identify the challenges and strategies to address them.

In-Person: Just the Strategies! A Tool Kit for Teachers

Teaching is an art. If you are finding unpacking knowledge and skills in an engaging way daunting or want to add a few more teaching tools to your kit, this workshop is for you. In this interactive and full day workshop we will explore evidence based, engaging and high impact teaching strategies and activities that work!

Webinar: Silent microphones & empty chat boxes: Why it happens, and proven strategies that deliver

Join Dr Deniese Cox for this interactive webinar where she provides effective strategies to avoid awkward silences, disengaged learners and the practical tips that can be implemented into your classroom.

Deep Dive Webinar: Step 1 in supporting learners - craft a trainer introduction that captivates & builds trust

Is your self-introduction secretly sabotaging student success? Join us for this hands-on workshop where you'll discover the hidden power of your about-me introductions.

VET Chat: The Yarning Circle - Cultural Awareness

Join Jillian West in this engaging 'Yarn' and ‘chat’ about the art of storytelling used by indigenous people around the world.

VET Chat: Cyber Security in the Age of AI

National VET Chats create a space to stimulate conversation, explore new trends and spark and inspire thinking. Join Andrew Shea as he explores how AI is reshaping the the threat landscape.

Webinar Recording: Inclusive Curriculum Design - Creating Learning Pathways for All

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.

Deep Dive Webinar: Applying Reasonable Adjustment

Presented by Sharon Griffiths, this session explores the 2025 Standards for RTOs with a focus on wellbeing, inclusion, diversity, and culturally safe practices.

eLearn: Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Training

This three-part eLearning series is designed to deepen understanding and improve communication when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients. It explores the impact of colonisation, cultural perspectives, and practical approaches to culturally respectful engagement.

VET Chat: Supporting Neurodivergent Colleagues in VET

More information to come.

Virtual Workshop: Design & Collaboration Tools for Educators

This hands-on workshop introduces educators to three powerful engagement tools: Canva, Padlet, and Mentimeter. Participants will actively explore each tool through practical activities and discuss ways to integrate them into classroom activities and resource design. Walk away with confidence to seamlessly integrate these into your f2f or online classes and create spark joy in learning.

Deep Dive Webinar: Cognitive Architecture: Chunking, Scaffolding, & Sequencing VET Competencies

Join us for an advanced exploration of cognitive load theory applied specifically to VET contexts.

Deep Dive Webinar: Mastering Video Content: From Skip it to Click it

Join Deniese and learn how to turn your videos into powerful learning magnets that learners devour. During this game-changing workshop you'll discover the secrets to creating captivating content that learners can't resist!

Deep Dive Webinar: Introduction to Universal Design for Learning

This interactive online webinar introduces vocational educators to Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles.

Virtual Workshop: High Impact Teaching Strategies - What Works, What Matters

Designed for busy educators who want to refine their craft, this session explores how to apply the HITS in real classrooms and training environments.

VDC Professional Learning Fellowship 2026

Through this fellowship, participants will receive targeted professional development, enabling them to contribute significantly to the growth of the VET teaching profession. By strengthening teaching outcomes, the fellowship ultimately benefits students, industry, and the broader community.

Deep Dive Webinar: Enhancing Delivery & Teaching Practices for Neurodivergent Learners in VET

Join Dr Shae Wissell and Dr Kim Percy for this deep dive exploration on neurodivergence in VET.

Webinar: Motivation by Design: Making Training That Learners Enjoy

Join Tyler Payne for this intermediate session as she explores strategies to enhance learner motivation and engagement in VET through motivation by design.

VET Chat: Normalising Doubt - Supporting Returning Learners to Persist

This is a 30 minute interactive discussion focused on adult and returning learners who experience doubt, fear of exposure, or impostor feelings when re-entering study.

Webinar Recording: Crack the Assessment Code

Don’t let another term pass with underwhelming results and overwhelming workload. Leverage this workshop to turn your assessments from pain points into powerful learning tools, and watch learner satisfaction soar!

Webinar Recording: Introduction to trauma‑aware education

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

Webinar Recording: Learner Digital Skills – What Do We Know, What Can We Do

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.

Webinar Recording: Silent Microphones and Empty Chat Boxes; Why it Happens, and Proven Strategies that Deliver

Join Dr Deniese Cox in this webinar recording where she provides effective strategies to avoid awkward silences, disengaged learners and the practical tips that can be implemented into your classroom.

Webinar Recording: Step 1 in Supporting Learners - Craft a Trainer Introduction that Captivates & Builds Trust

Is your self-introduction secretly sabotaging student success? Watch this webinar recording where you'll discover the hidden power of your about-me introductions.

VET National Teaching & Learning Conference 2026: Healthy Workplaces. Thriving Teachers. Positive Outcomes.

The VET Development Centre has a proud 21-year tradition of providing one of Australia’s leading teaching & learning conferences for Vocational Education and Training. The VET National Teaching & Learning Conference 2026 will be held in-person at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre on the 13 & 14 of August.

Deep Dive Webinar: Navigating the New Training Package Era

Follow Alan Maguire in discovering the changes under the Training Package Organising Framework - focusing on new formats for qualifications, skill sets and units of competency. It compares old and new unit structures helping RTOs understand the transition, reduce confusion, and apply the updates confidently in training and assessment practice across the VET sector.

Webinar: Cultural Awareness & Teaching Strategies

Join Jillian for an interactive webinar where she provides guidance on strengthening culturally responsive teaching practices and the meaningful inclusion of Indigenous perspectives.

Deep Dive Webinar: Creating Positive Conversations: Transform the Way You Communicate & Connect

Join Michele Tocci in building skills to turn everyday workplace conversations into opportunities for connection and positive impact. Participants will gain practical, emotionally intelligent communication strategies to help navigate difficult conversations, build trust, strengthen relationships, and communicate with clarity and confidence across teams and leaders.

Deep Dive Webinar: Trauma Informed Teaching Practice

This webinar introduces trauma‑informed teaching, focusing on creating safe, respectful and responsive learning environments. Join Tori Cooke in exploring trauma’s impact on engagement, managing lived experience, and learn practical strategies for teaching sensitive content with care and confidence to support engagement, hope and meaningful participation.

Virtual Workshop: Less Talk, More Learning: Why Stepping Back Helps Students Step Up

This virtual workshop explores how doing less as a teacher can lead to deeper learning. Grounded in active learning, brain science and experiential teaching, it introduces “productive laziness,” helping educators shift from content delivery to learning design that builds student ownership, thinking, participation and long‑term retention.

Deep Dive Webinar: The Power of Emotional Intelligence: Transforming the Way You Work

This deep dive webinar builds emotional intelligence skills essential for leadership, teaching and workplace effectiveness. Participants learn practical strategies to recognise emotions, manage stress, navigate difficult situations and strengthen relationships. Through interactive activities and real‑world examples, the session supports confident communication, conflict de‑escalation, resilience and the creation of positive, high‑performing workplace cultures.

Webinar: AI For Creative Teaching

This workshop explores how AI can enhance, not replace, great teaching. Led by Andrew Douch, it showcases leading AI tools for creating engaging classroom resources, including images, video, music and apps, and demonstrates how creative teachers can combine psychology, storytelling and technology to design compelling learning experiences that motivate students.

Deep Dive Webinar: AI For Productivity

Join Andrew Douch in this deep dive webinar that explores practical, powerful ways to use AI beyond basic chatbots. Participants discover accessible AI tools, apps and workflows that boost productivity across any role. No technical expertise is required—just curiosity and a willingness to rethink how work gets done to save time and work more effectively.

Webinar: Creating Accessible Documents: It Just Makes Sense!

This interactive session shows how accessible document design removes hidden learning barriers and saves time. RTO leaders will learn why accessibility reduces risk and builds advantage, while educators gain practical strategies to support learners, improve comprehension and enhance AI accuracy. Participants leave with simple techniques to create inclusive, effective materials immediately.

Webinar: Psychological Safety: Essential Glue That Makes Learning Stick

Join Chemene for this interactive webinar packed full of practical insights and easy-to-implement strategies to help you establish and maintain a psychologically safe learning environment that enhances student experiences and improves outcomes.

Webinar: What Can & Can’t be Delivered Online

Enter an in-depth session that helps educators navigate what can and cannot be taught online, particularly for practical qualifications. Participants learn a simple framework to design impactful blended learning, engage in discussion, and hear real examples from once‑sceptical trainers who now use targeted online tools to achieve stronger, more consistent learner outcomes.

Webinar: Designing Discussion forums: From Dreaded to Dynamic in 6 Simple Steps

A new webinar that shows educators how to design discussion forums that foster safe, inclusive and meaningful participation. Participants learn a research‑backed six‑step framework with ready‑to‑use strategies and a simple planning tool to transform inactive forums into engaging learning communities where all learners contribute confidently and consistently.

Deep Dive Webinar: Student Support Under the New Standards: From Enrolment to Evidence

Explore how RTOs can design, implement, and monitor effective student support systems that go beyond compliance to genuinely improve learner outcomes.

Thought Leadership Series: Embedding Inclusive Practice in Everyday Training

This session examines how inclusive practice can be embedded into everyday training rather than added on. It challenges learner‑led adaptation, explores inclusion in design and delivery, and prompts reflection on who is adapting. Participants identify superficial practices and make small, practical shifts to improve engagement, equity, and learner success.

Deep Dive Webinar: Supporting Neurodivergent Staff

Engage with Feren Yen in this practical workshop that moves beyond basic awareness of neurodivergence to deliver real-world tools for supporting neurodivergent team members.

Webinar: AI as an Accessibility Technology

Explore GenAI as an accessibility technology with Leon Furze.

Webinar: AI & Cognitive Offload

Join Leon Furze in learning how to encourage students to use these technologies appropriately and understand how to avoid cognitive offload with AI.

Virtual Workshop: Rethink VET Assessment: Be Authentic & AI-Smart

This session explores the implications of GenAI in VET assessment.

Webinar: AI Everywhere!

Join Leon Furze as he delves into how to teach in a world where students can access AI any time and any place.

Deep Dive Webinar: Addressing Dyslexia & Specific Learning Differences in the Classroom

This highly practical course builds educators’ confidence and capability to effectively support learners with dyslexia and other specific learning differences in TAFE and adult education settings.

Deep Dive Webinar: Self-Leadership & People Capability

This webinar focuses on strengthening the personal and interpersonal foundations of effective leadership. The session builds skills in constructive, purposeful communication, including committed listening and engaging in meaningful conversations that strengthen relationships and trust. In addition, participants will be introduced to adaptive leadership approaches through situational coaching practices, learning how to respond flexibly to the needs of others and support growth in diverse contexts.

Thought Leadership Series: Teacher Capability Uplift - Building Capability Across the Teaching Journey

As VET providers face increasing challenges in attracting, developing and retaining educators, there is growing recognition that professional learning must move beyond compliance and become an integrated approach to workforce capability development. Drawing on innovative teacher capability initiatives, this session explores how organisations can build capability across the teaching journey, particularly for educators transition

Deep Dive Webinar: Before They Stumble: Increase Learner Engagement

Drawing on extensive research and real-world trials, this interactive session provides four proven strategies to boost learner engagement that can be implemented immediately. Expect practical examples, ready-to-use templates, and research-backed techniques with real-world application.

Deep Dive Webinar: Assessing Learners Effectively

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