Navigating Digital Challenges:
A Look at Dr. Denise Cox’s Guide on Digital Skills for Education & Training In the contemporary educational landscape of Australia, the ubiquitous nature of digital tools has rendered digital literacy a non-negotiable skill. Dr. Denise Cox’s comprehensive guide, “Digital...
5 Key Steps in Developing effective training and assessment programs to meet industry standards
Australia’s VET sector has always been considered a powerhouse in contributing to the local economy. Students, industries, and employers rely on the sector to provide high-quality training and assessment that cater to the dynamic needs of the Australian workforce locally...
Ten Tips for Effective Virtual Delivery
Virtual instructor-led training (VILT) offers many benefits over face-to-face or traditional classroom delivery. However, it is important to understand that VILT differs from face-to-face facilitation in a number of ways. The use of technology alone creates a challenge for both...
Why provide feedback to students?
Many trainers find the topic of providing feedback confusing, and some colleagues only look at regulatory implications of the trainers’/assessors’ feedback, so I thought it might be a good topic for review. To better understand feedback, let’s define what it...
What makes a good trainer?
The effectiveness and even the integrity of the TAE40110 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment has been the centre of public discussions for a few years now. A lot of people ask me to describe how this qualification can help...
Are You an Effective Facilitator?
When was the last time you were in a room with a truly exceptional facilitator—where the group was engaged, progress was being made, and issues were raised and then resolved? For me, a great facilitator makes it look like magic;...
Challenges to Corporate Learning
What do we need to change in today’s workplace to allow learning to truly transform organizations? Here are two challenging elements based on current trends in workplace learning. Culture of DeliveryPoll a group of people in the workplace about what...
Facilitation Skills for face-to-face and Virtual training
Training Skills Used by the Virtual Trainer Virtual training is still training. In the next set of posts I’ll review the basic training skills used by virtual and classroom trainers alike, with special focus on what’s unique in virtual classroom....
Creating Learning Climate in your classroom
Malcolm Knowles (1980) define the andragogical approach to learning climate as being relaxed, trusting, mutually respectful, informal, warm, collaborative, and supportive, with openness, authenticity, and humanness as key contributing factors. Learning theorists consider all these process elements, defined in Knowles’s...
Good Classes and Bad Classes
Have you ever completed a course of study that truly inspired you? One in which you really got a lot out of the learning experience? You left feeling more competent, at least understanding how you could become more competent, and...