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Find Out What's On! - Tech in VET and Foundation Skills Streams
Aug 23, 2018
Find Out What's On! - Tech in VET and Foundation Skills Streams
This week we showcase 2 streams on Day 2:
Tech in VET (Hall K) – many RTOs are moving towards cloud based and paperless processes. This impacts greatly on the management practices within the RTO including communication, storage and record keeping. This stream focuses on how technology impacts on management practices within an RTO (this stream is not related to the impact of technology on learning, teaching or assessment).
Foundation Skills (Hall E) – this stream provides a focus on a range of frameworks such as the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) and the Core Skills for Work Framework (CSfW), as well as practical tips related to the skills needed by trainers and assessors when developing a learner’s foundation skills.
| Session Title: Presenter: | 17 Technology Tools to get Your RTO Cooking with Gas! (TECH IN VET) Marc Ratcliffe |
| Marc Ratcliffe is a multi-award-winning trainer, author and education entrepreneur. He is the CEO and founder of MRWED Training and Assessment, a private RTO that specialises in Trainer Training. He is a strong advocate for "edu-tainment" and believes that learner involvement and fun are integral to student success. He continues to be an in demand conference speaker and workshop facilitator, having presented at more than 50 conferences in a dozen countries in the past decade and was recently named as the winner of the “Best Training and Development Leadership” Award for 2017 at the World Training and Development Congress in Mumbai. | |
| Session Title: Presenter: | Embracing Cloud Transformation: Anatomy of an RTO (TECH IN VET) Miranda Hamilton |
Miranda Hamilton is an experienced and passionate leader and consultant, specialising in providing business advisory assessment and training services to individuals, businesses and government for transformation, and growth. As Director of Learning Partnerships, Miranda is passionate about developing people, teams and organisations to thrive and be the best that they can be. Miranda previously co-founded Securus Global, one of Australia’s most highly regarded Information Security and technical research companies and has a background in Business Analysis, Project Management and IT Security and Governance. | |
| Session Title: Presenter: | Utilising Technology and Globalisation to Enhance RTO Operations (TECH IN VET) Maciek Fibrich |
| For almost 20 years, Maciek Fibrich has been challenging the status-quo in the VET sector, often pushing the limits to achieve unexpected outcomes for RTOs. Some will also argue that disruption is part of Maciek’s DNA, but the reality is, Maciek is truly passionate about ensuring quality within the VET sector and working out ways to use technology to push quality, yet ensuring it never impacts on the human nature of training and assessment. Maciek commenced his VET journey in 1999 when he started his first RTO with his mother, and since then, he has seen the industry morph many times. He has enjoyed the many challenges faced due to the never-ending changes, but has never lost sight of the industries main focus, educating our students. | |
| Session Title: Presenter: | Automated Attendance Monitoring: Making monitoring attendance easy
(TECH IN VET) Chris Eske |
| Chris Eske is the executive Director ANZ, Blackboard. He drives Blackboard's mission to partner with the global education community to enable student and institutional success, by leveraging innovative technologies and services. | |
| Session Title: Presenters: | Behind Foundation Skills: Your questions answered (FOUNDATION SKILLS) Panel Session: Anne Leske, Chemene Sinson, Dave Tout, Ruth Walker |
| Ann Leske is a VET foundation skills trainer and consultant. Ann shares tips and strategies through presentations and consultations to workplaces, RTOs, and trainers. At the core of Ann’s 20-year VET experience is her passion to enable learners to successfully develop the foundation skills to complete training. Ann, with Chemène Sinson, initiated a specialised website to support LLN and VET trainers to embrace foundation skills development within vocational training called LLN and VET Meeting Place. Chemene Sinson is a learning and development consultant who specialises in TAE qualifications and other non-accredited programs. She has extensive experience designing, delivering and assessing TAE Certificate IV and Diploma programs for private, community, government and industry-based RTOs. She has written a suite of learning and assessment materials for the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment purchased by more than 100 RTOs to date. In recent years she has focused her own professional development on language, literacy and numeracy development through VET and has teamed up with Ann Leske to form a joint LLN and VET development initiative. Dave Tout is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading adult numeracy personnel, and has worked in schools, TAFEs, ACE, university and AMES workplaces, with over 30 years’ experience in the VET sector. He has wide experience in training, and in state, national and international research, curriculum, assessment and materials development. Dave had major responsibility for the numeracy domain of the ACSF. He was a member of the Numeracy Expert Group (NEG) responsible for the numeracy component of the international ALLS survey and for PIAAC. David is currently the Senior Research Fellow, Numeracy and Mathematics at ACER . Ruth Walker has worked in VET for over 20 years as a trainer, compliance manager, consultant, researcher and auditor across a range of institutions including TAFE, Community Colleges, VET in Schools, NSW DEC, Swinburne University of Technology and ASQA. Her passion and focus is on improving the quality and reputation of VET. | |
| Session Title: Presenter: | Language, Literacy and Numeracy Testing: Getting it right (FOUNDATION SKILLS) Rachel Taylor |
| Rachel Taylor has more than 15 years’ experience teaching, designing, managing and quality auditing in the VET sector in Australia and abroad. Having worked in the ELICOS and tertiary sectors in addition to the VET arena, she has a passion for using student data to inform educational reform, and assess the quality of VET service provision. With a background in second language education, Rachel has a strong focus on supporting Language, Literacy and Numeracy skills development and promoting professional development for trainers in how to cater for differing language and learning needs in the classroom. | |
| Session Title: Presenter: | Keep Calm and Carry a Pentagon (FOUNDATION SKILLS) Penny Vervoorst |
Penny Vervoorst’s time is split between doctoral studies in the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne, researching employability skills in undergraduate mathematics, and working as an internal auditor in the VET sector. With over 10 years’ experience at an enterprise RTO, a private RTO and a TAFE, Penny looks for solutions to problems. One particular area of interest is how to help make it easier for VET students to improve their numeracy skills. | |
| Session Title: Presenter: | Old School - New Cool (FOUNDATION SKILLS) John Blake |
Having taught or presented in nearly 20 countries, John Blake is passionate about making in difference through education at all levels. John has a background in hospitality and professional writing and in more recent years has taught in VET at TAFEs, Universities, conferences, schools, RTOs, prisons and in hotels. | |
Date posted Aug 23, 2018
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