E-learning Innovations Projects 2010 - NSW
The Australian Flexible Learning Framework has awarded $1,428,400 to develop and manage 33 projects that will deliver innovative e-learning training solutions in New South Wales in 2010.
Project funding and support has been awarded to registered training organisations based on their ability to either:
• support business-training provider partnerships that can drive the integration of e-learning into business and training
• empower learners through projects which target the needs of individuals in the community or existing and future students of the RTO.
The below table outlines the full list of awarded projects in New South Wales.
Please note: all effort has been made to ensure the below information was true and accurate at the time of posting. This information will be updated and further announcements made once projects have undertaken their 2010 inductions.
| Category | RTO name (and partner) | RTO type | Project name and description | |
| 1 | Business provider partnership | Port Macquarie Community College and Hastings Macleay Division of General Practice | ACE/ community provider | MediSkills
The project involves the use e-portfolios to provide an online recognition program for administration staff working in medical practices throughout northern NSW. |
| 2 |
Business provider partnership | TAFE NSW Western Institute and Central West Management Authority | TAFE institute | Western Region Farm Planning
This project includes the design and development of a Moodle site and a podcast service to deliver online training resources to geographically isolated farm managers and landowners. |
| 3 |
Business provider partnership | Southern IML Pathology Training and Southern IML Pathology | Enterprise or corporate RTO | E-learning across the practice
This project involves the delivery of OHS and Infection Control units to existing workers employed in pathology. |
| 4 | Business provider partnership | TAFE NSW Western Institute, Country Energy, TAFE NSW Riverina Institute and TAFE NSW North Coast | TAFE institute | Country Energy Online
Pilot and implementation of an online learning platform to support the delivery of specialist electrical qualifications to 130 Country Energy shiftworkers located in regional/remote locations. |
| 5 |
Business provider partnership | Illawarra Institute TAFENSW and the Surveying and Mapping Industry Council of NSW | TAFE institute | Surveying the future: Blending online delivery with workplace training and mentoring
This online Diploma addresses a critical need within the spatial science industry and will cater to potential learners who cannot otherwise enter the surveying profession due to their remote and dispersed work/home locations. |
| 6 |
Business provider partnership | Balfour College and Professional Housekeepers Association of NSW (PHAN) | Private RTO | Hospitalit-E
This project provides an opportunity for housekeeping managers in resorts, hotels, apartments, aged care facilities and hospitals to upskill in financial management competencies. |
| 7 |
Business provider partnership | TAFE NSW Riverina Institute and Airservices Australia | TAFE institute | Air PlanE2
Airservices Australia and Riverina Institute have partnered together to offer the Diploma of Electronics and Communications Engineering in an embedded e-learning environment. |
| 8 | Business provider partnership | TAFE NSW Northern Sydney Institute, ClubsNSW and the Registered Clubs Association of NSW | TAFE institute | ClubsNSW Club Directors Online
This project supports ClubsNSW to provide a program that will increase managerial skills of its members, with a pathway to a recognised qualification. |
| 9 | Business provider partnership | Sydney Community College and Bovis Lend Lease | ACE/ community provider |
OH&S RPL Online This project upskills Bovis Lend Lease staff in OH&S competencies through a guided online RPL process including the development of an e-portfolio. |
| 10 | Business provider partnership | TAFE NSW Western Institute and Country Energy | TAFE institute |
Quality Auditing Online This project will work with Country Energy to develop, pilot and implement an online learning program for the delivery of quality auditing training to Country Energy employees located in regional and remote locations in NSW. |
| 11 | Business provider partnership | TAFE NSW Northern Sydney Institute, Bunnings Pty Ltd, Centre For Learning Innovation and NSW DET | TAFE institute |
Making sustainable e-choices This project will develop e-learning strategies and e-resources for staff employed at Bunnings, a national hardware retailer, in the area of sustainable work practices. |
| 12 | Business provider partnership | Australian Diver Accreditation Scheme (ADAS) and NSW Police Diving Unit |
Not-for-profit RTO |
Diving into mobile learning This project will use e-learning and mobile learning technology to train staff requiring the national diver certificate, to comply with OHS law. |
| 13 | Business provider partnership | Tocal College, Cotton Research and Development Corporation, and Saleyard Operators Australia |
Other |
Partnering across two industry sectors to build OH&S training and induction capacity The project will engage two different rural industry sectors, the Cotton Industry and the Livestock Saleyard Industry, to develop an engaging e-learning strategy, OHS training, and induction for a range of client groups. |
| 14 | Business provider partnership |
Technical and Further Education Commission, as represented by Hunter Institute of TAFE and Mandurah Hunter Indigenous Business Chambers
|
TAFE institute |
Business Administration E-learning Indigenous Partnership This project will provide business training to Indigenous business employers in regional and remote areas of NSW that will assist these businesses to extend their capability and provide better access to higher level qualifications. |
| 15 | Business provider partnership | TAFE NSW Hunter Institute and Woolworths Limited | TAFE institute |
E-learning for Meat Traineeships The project aims to provide an e-learning pathway for the Fast Track Certificate III Meat Processing (Food Services) traineeship program. |
| 16 | Empowering learners | TAFE NSW New England Institute | TAFE institute |
Animal Care Online This project will enhance learning opportunities for learners from regional and remote areas to undertake studies in animal care and veterinary nursing flexibly. |
| 17 | Empowering learners | TAFE NSW - Illawarra Institute | TAFE institute |
Get Flexible2: Step-up project This project will provide an e-learning orientation tool for diploma students and includes resources for learners that will enable them to develop independent learning skills, write reports and essays, reference, annotate and analyse information using online collaboration/ social networking tools and e-portfolios. |
| 18 | Empowering learners | TAFE NSW - Sydney Institute | TAFE institute |
E-learning for Community Engagement and Mentoring This project will develop e-learning resources for learners who are socially marginalised and have low literacy and language levels. |
| 19 | Empowering learners | Byron Region Community College | ACE/ community provider |
By The Books This project focuses on e-learning and e-assessment/ recognition strategies to support rural and remote bookkeepers who must now acquire the Certificate IV in Financial Services (Bookkeeping) to meet newly legislated requirements under the Tax Agent Services Act 2009. |
| 20 | Empowering learners | TAFE NSW - Western Institute | TAFE institute |
Virtual Tourism: From Moodle to Sloodle Project focus is on developing a virtual tourism learning experience for TVET students and remotely located trainees in Outback NSW. |
| 21 | Empowering learners | Metro Screen Ltd | Not-for-profit RTO |
My Story Life My Story Life is a virtual world that will be developed by Metro Screen for Indigenous young people disengaged from traditional classroom based learning practices. |
| 22 | Empowering learners | TAFE NSW Western Institute | TAFE institute |
EMS and PVP Across The West This project will create an online learning environment for geographically isolated learners across NSW for Environmental Management Systems (EMS) training and Property Vegetation Planning (PVP) skill sets. |
| 23 | Empowering learners | Catholic Educcation Office, Sydney | Private RTO |
eCollaboration in the Workplace This project is an e-learning strategy which will allow learners, teachers and employers to engage in constructive online discussion and learning, throughout their work placement experience. |
| 24 | Empowering learners | TAFE NSW North Coast Institute | TAFE institute |
YouthNet - Freedom From Bullying This project will use an action learning approach where young people will be mentored through several web design units as they develop a youth website and interactive tools that focus on the growing issue of bullying in the local community. |
| 25 | Empowering learners | TAFE NSW Riverina Institute | TAFE institute |
Seed Mapping and Digital Library This project targets Indigenous students studying conservation, land management and production horticulture in remote locations who are unable to access physical plant specimens from the Riverina region. |
| 26 | Empowering learners | Australian Institute of Management NSW and ACT TCL | Not-for-profit RTO |
AIM4SUPPORT This project targets disengaged youth who are young professional football players undertaking a Diploma in Management with a focus on e-portfolios and self-assessment activities. |
| 27 | Empowering learners | TAFE NSW Northern Sydney Institute | TAFE institute |
Children's Services Recognition and Gap Training Online This project aims to develop and implement an e-portfolio strategy to support workers in gaining recognition of existing skills and to provide gap training for the remaining skills required to meet the needs of newly enforced legislation. |
| 28 | Empowering learners | TAFE NSW Western Sydney Institute | TAFE institute |
E-learning for Community Education This project will provide recognition, training and pathways in information technology, sport and fitness to local youth from the Western and South Western suburbs of Sydney Development Squad of the rugby league club, West Magpies. |
| 29 | Empowering learners | Sydney Institute of TAFE NSW | TAFE institute |
Reflective e-portfolios: Career development in education This project will look at how e-technologies can support the recognition process and also be used to extend the career development options of skilled migrants (overseas trained teachers). |
| 30 | Empowering learners | TAFE NSW North Coast Institute | TAFE institute |
Supporting Dhaganha through innovative e-learning The purpose of the Dhaganha program is to upskill Indigenous tourism business operators in NSW using innovative e-learning strategies designed to best meet the needs of this learner group. |
| 31 | Empowering learners | NSW State Emergency Service | Enterprise or corporate RTO |
Skills for a safer community The purpose of this project is to continue to work with staff and volunteers of the SES (as a follow up to their 2009 project, Cultural Points of View) with a new focus on developing awareness and skills when responding to the needs of people with various disabilities. |
| 32 | Empowering learners | TAFE NSW North Coast Institute | TAFE institute |
Look smart, feel smart, work smart An interactive online resource for self-paced learning based around personal presentation, self-esteem and interpersonal communication to build and sustain necessary skills for youth in work/life readiness. |
| 33 | Empowering learners | TAFE NSW Sydney Institute | TAFE institute |
Sustainability Analysis of Building Information Models The primary focus of this project is to develop and implement a series of online tutorials for learners enrolled in the Advanced Diploma of Sustainable Design in the use of BIM CAD software and the development of Revit projects for integration into Ecotect. |