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Bringing together a coherent provider strategy for effective online learning is a complex task. We juggle many factors in planning and implementing online environments that work for our learners, whether they study wholly online or in blended modes. The challenges multiply when we serve online learners who are unfamiliar with what tertiary education asks of […]

The Closing the Gap Prime Minister’s Report 2017 charts significant increases since 2002 in the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders holding certificate level qualifications. In 2008 the Council of Australian Governments adopted seven targets that sought to reduce disadvantages experienced by Indigenous Australians. But as the Prime Minister pointed out when tabling the

We need change in what young people learn, and how they learn it. There is growing interest in extending the apprenticeship model to exploit its benefits for young people and industry. In 2016 VDC News carried two articles on this topic – Government-appointed Advisory Group asks for apprenticeship system reform (31 August 2016), and Growing

Brendan is a qualified tradesman who has 20 years of experience and has operated his own business successfully for 10 years. Five years ago he decided to follow his passion and he became a trainer at his local TAFE.  After some time he was earmarked as “management material” and started in his current role. Although,

Here at VDC, we are passionate about VET and on consistency in assessment judgements so it is great that we have Sarah Phillips who has been working in the VET industry since 2005. In that time Sarah has held positions in a range of settings across private, Learn Local and TAFE in the fields of

VET practice and new technology VET practitioners often lead their university colleagues in teaching and learning practices. For nearly 15 years, Texas-based New Media Centers (NMC) has produced an annual review of emerging educational technologies – what’s coming and what it means for learning and teaching. There are reviews for a variety of audiences, including

The Queensland government is asking for public feedback on its plans for the state’s VET system. On 28 February the Queensland government released Advancing skills for the future: A strategy for vocational education and training in Queensland (24 pages). The draft strategy is anchored in three objectives: Industry and innovation – ongoing strategic collaboration between

Prejudice is a conscious choice. Unconscious bias is… well, unconscious. Both can have the same influence on employment outcomes. For our graduates, unconscious bias can be another hurdle to getting a job that is unrelated to their skills and knowledge, or to the quality of their training program.  New tools for getting around the unconscious

Don’t miss the opportunity to meet Trina Hoefling on Friday 28 April 2017 in Melbourne a virtual management pioneer, co-founder of The Smart Workplace and Virtual Workplace University, and author of Working Virtually: Managing People and Organisations for Virtual Success. This enlightening speaker will tackle topics such as: Teaching tomorrow’s workforce today An engagement-driven rapid

When teachers offer constructive feedback, they help students drive their own learning. Feedback is to learning like water is to swimming. Educational research has frequently reinforced the finding that constructive feedback is among the handful of most potent teaching strategies going around. One global teaching practice guru – John Hattie of the University and Melbourne