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VEP Episode #32 - Liam from eCreators by SpecTraining

Built specifically for the Vocational Education and Training Industry, Cloud Assess is a revolution in online assessment and is for every industry whether you are a private, enterprise, government or not-for-profit RTO. www.cloudassess.com.au

The Australian Apprenticeships Pathways website is an Australia wide information hub designed to help training organisations, apprenticeship centres and generally people considering career options, employers looking at recruitment and those providing support and advice. Go to www.aapathways.com.au

Finding space to run face to face courses can be expensive and difficult. Vickie and her team make use of vacant training rooms around the country to meet the needs of training organisations. It's an interesting talk about how the business has dealt with the last 12 months. Enjoy!

5 Pro Tips and 6 Steps to creating an engaging 40 minute training session on ANY topic. How do I know this works? Because I've done it many, many times and shown people that it doesn't even need a lot of subject expertise OR technological know how.

I had a good chat with Paul Bashford - a regional charity owner who depends upon accredited training and government support to skill local individuals to increase their employability.

I've decided to cover the basic elements of developing and managing distance-based learning on the cusp of what could be a significant shift in our industry. As a face-to-face training lover, I've had to really re-think the value of e-learning and distance training methods.

Ok, this is just a short rant about quality in VET. Your comments are welcome - let's start the conversation!

Welcome to 2020 - and our first podcast for the new year. We have a treat for you - Claire Field is an icon win the VET sector. With decades of service to the greater VET community, her insights are always enlightening and interesting to those of us lucky enough to call the sector our own.

Lee is a celebrated author in the vocational sector. We chat about writing, learning and design and share a few opinions along the way.

Kerry Brocks has committed herself to the improvement of adult trainers and facilitators. In doing so, she has created a global network of professionals dedicated to her cause. The Institute of Learning Professionals (ILP)has now established an industry-wide standard of recognition. Our talk centres on the leadership skills required to start and maintain such an industry-changing phenomenon.

When running a small business, are there any real differences between regional and metropolitan training organisations? We chat to Mackay business owner Deb O'Shae to get her take on the specific things that make a successful regional RTO.

Successful recruitment in the VET sector plays a crucial role to the overall quality of training, assessment and management in the industry. We hear from Samantha Smith about facilitator and executive recruitment, followed by a long awaited follow-up interview with Lauren Hollows to see what she's concerned about in the industry.

We have as chat about getting your organisation ready for a compliance audit - but not the way you think. Audit Express have a unique way of approaching compliance that I think you'll appreciate!

Scott is an absolute delight to listen to. His passion for technology and instructional design should get you thinking about how these two fields overlap in your own context. He certainly made me think! Especially when it comes to 'who owns your content?'

Norma Angeloni-Tomaras has spent the majority of her working life dedicated to the education publishing industry. In her role at McGraw-Hill Education, she manages the VET portfolio and takes the time to talk with me about the direction of this part of the publishing business.

Maciek Fibrich is a unique and interesting individual in the world of RTO consultancy and management. With more experience than your 'average bear', Maciek shares some of his insights into what is working and what isn't in the RTO business world. We also spend a bit of time talking about assessment tools... because getting it right is so damn important!

Vanessa McCarthy is a lifelong professional in the vocational education sector. In recent downtimes, Vanessa turned her attention towards improving the time commitment and quality outcomes of validation activities. This has led her to the creation and release of Valid8ed - an online validation tool starting to make inroads into the Australian VET industry.

Matthew Dale is the founder of Educonomy. In this chat, we discuss the relevance and importance of micro learning and micro credentialing, along with a few other factors that are important for educators and policy makers when thinking about the future of learning in the VET sector.

Tamara is an RTO coach - but one who takes a holistic approach to the ins and outs of running the business, not just the compliance heavy side. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting and talking with Tamara and look forward to your comments on the advice she gives us as embattled RTO owners, managers and staff!

Michelle shares her passion for validation - yes, validation! Her organisation is offering bootcamps for RTO employees to improve their validation practices. It's such an important part of the VET landscape; not just a compliance requirement. Marc shares some tips from his presentation at the Velg National VET Conference in Brisbane. Some insights are just SO obvious that we should all be applying...

Eric and Laurie share a practical and impressive approach to classroom learning that improves not only the plight of the hardened facilitator - but that of the ever-suffering learner, through the application of structure to otherwise ambiguous learning activities.

Alex is the Senior Customer Relationships Manager of cloud-based training and management system, Cloud Asses. In this chat, Alex shares the basic nuts and bolts of the platform and some insight into how his organisation applies continuous improvement to their 'SaaS' product. (Software as a Service). https://www.cloudassess.com.au

It's our return to podcasting! We're back for 2019 and beyond starting with this interesting look into the process of writing the national training packages that appear on training.gov.au. CEO of Skills Impact, Michael Hartman tells us how his team interact with RTOs, industry, and subject experts during this very structured process.

The amazing Lauren Hollows talks everything TAE and VET!