RMT is one of 14 projects from a range of industries and Registered Training Organisations who won funding in 2009 to develop innovative products, practices and processes for embedding e-learning into their organisations. These projects will be showcased at the E-Dayz Conference on Thursday 12th and Friday 13th November. They are funded by the national training system’s e-learning strategy, the Australian Flexible Learning Framework. To keep up to date with our project check out the following link: http://trainingo2.net/eli/projectprofile22009.php?pid=2218
Have checked out a couple of resources that have already been developed in the hope that we can use them for our delivery.
The Dryland Horticulture toolbox has material for the unit RTC2705A Work Effectively in Industry but will not be suitable for our purposes. It is more for retail and is specific for indigenous trainees.
The NSW Farmers Association Chemical Card Training covers the learning for two units:
RTE3704A Prepare and apply chemicals
RTE3705A Transport, handle and store chemicals
It is an e-learning demonstration developed for the Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Is quite comprehensive but needs to be customised for our use…is a bit too ’sheep’ orientated and also laws covered are for NSW. Needs additional instructional design.
Will check out a few more toolboxes. Need to put together some activities for an induction unit.
Gill
I have been looking into different social and collaborative networking tools that we can incorporate into out project. These are some of the tools that we have looked at so far:
While we have looked at all these tools we feel that Moodle offers many of them in one location. I would like to invite comments from people who have used any of these tools in comparison with Moodle.
Dearne
River Murray Training & Riverland Trade School
The SA E-Learning Innovations ASBA-AG project team welcomes you to follow our progress as we begin our pilot with a small but enthusiastic group of school based apprentices. We are working on developing a program which will keep our students and trainers engaged and expand their learning environment. RMT has a strong investment in e-learning as an integral part of our blended learning culture. We have been successfully running courses on Moodle and Construct LMS (supported by on line tutorials using Gotomeeting and Discover-e) for over five years for self paced and group learning. We had great outcomes from a Mature Age Workers e-learning pilot for eWorks in 2007 and hope to emulate this success by focusing our efforts on the other end of the spectrum with our school based apprentices. Because our students are largely rural we have faced the challenge of providing supportive flexible learning solutions to meet learning needs prescribed by a remote environment. We use blended learning methodologies which provide students with on-line learning modules and virtual classrooms supported by a dedicated facilitator. Increasingly students are taking up Certificate III Apprenticeships through Trade Schools. We developed the Certificate III in Agriculture school-based traineeship to address a need articulated by the Riverland Trade School in October 2008, and devised a plan to provide students a broad range of agricultural experiences that could be built on in later career pathways. The Riverland Trade School was only established at the beginning of 2008, and our relationship will only continue to grow in response to the growing need. Our project will investigate the complexities students undertaking an Australian School-Based Apprenticeships in Agriculture (ASBA_AG) experience in juggling secondary schooling and vocational training and in being both an employee and a school student. These students have specific needs which require adjustments to our current training resources and learning approaches. Work-based learning is a new learning style for most students, who have had a lifetime of schooling framed in pedagogy. Our project will assist students to become independent learners able to work within an andragogical framework.
Our team will continue to make regular comments on our progress and challenges:
Gill Ireland
Barb McPherson
Dearne Marafioti
Ian White
Brenton Roy