Our Work
ICVET is one of many groups supporting the continual improvement of quality in teaching and learning in TAFE NSW. Our work focuses on pedagogy, educational trends and issues and analysis of practice and our major projects are described here. See About ICVET for further details about our role and priorities.
- Designing Professional Development for the Knowledge Era
- VET Pedagogy Project, TAFE NSW
- Teaching and Learning Colloquium for TAFE NSW
- TAFE NSW Professional Development Framework for Teachers 2004 – 2006
- Skill Ecosystems - ICVET Project for TAFE NSW
- Committees
- ICVET Website
- 2006 Australian Flexible Learning Framework
- Completed Projects
ICVET Website www.icvet.edu.au
The aim of this website is to showcase TAFE NSW people, best practice and new ideas in VET teaching and learning. We publish leading exemplars and thinking from international, national and NSW sources keeping in mind TAFE NSW practitioners as a key audience.
This site is a work in progress, continually updated and developed to reflect our work and our clients’ needs and interests. It features an eZine, links to teaching and learning resources of particular interest to VET teachers, including articles, reports, papers addressing new VET trends and directions, and exemplars showcasing excellent and innovative teaching and learning practice.
Project Management - Heather Ferguson, Wendy Wyatt and Luke Hodges
2006 Australian Flexible Learning Framework
The 2006 Australian Flexible Learning Framework will facilitate a more flexible industry led VET system that emphasises user choice, quality and flexibility in achievement and demonstration of competencies that support economic growth, workforce engagement and lifelong learning.
Under this overarching committment, the priorities for 2006 are:
- Increase uptake of elearning in target areas
- Speed up the innovation process
- Mandate a set of standards and protocols for VET providers
- Building on our base, consolidate, leverage and promote VET elearning capabilities.
ICVET manages the Capability Building Program area within the Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Projects within this Program include:
- LearnScope - a professional development program
- elearning Networks - online community and networks
- Knowledge Sharing Services - infrastructure for Framework activities and knowledge sharing
Other projects within the 2006 Framework managed by ICVET include:
- Toolbox Champion, NSW - assisting VET people to implement elearning Toolboxes
- 2006 Framework Coordination, NSW - promotion and marketing of 2006 Framework products
Expected Outcomes
Build the capacity of VET professionals to implement elearning using quality teaching and learning strategies.
Project Manager - Robyn Jay
2006 Australian Flexible Learning Framework, NSW Coordination
This work involves coordinating the promotion and marketing of the national Framework in NSW. This includes organising and delivering corporate communication and public information events to increase awareness of the 2006 Framework and stimulate engagement throughout the NSW VET sector. The communication role also keeps stakeholders informed of developments and opportunities in all of the Framework Project areas. The role also supports the NSW Representative on the national Flexible Learning Advisory Group (FLAG).
NSW Coordinator - Jeff Saul
National LearnScope Coordination
LearnScope is a project of the 2006 Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Since its inception in 1998, ICVET and previously the TAFE NSW Professional Development Network has managed this part of a national strategy to increase the capacity of vocational education and training professionals to use flexible learning approaches and new technologies in the delivery of training. To date more than 20,000 teachers, trainers, managers, technical and support staff have benefited from funding and support through the LearnScope initiative.
LearnScope focuses on workbased professional development projects to enhance the skills and understanding that underpin elearning and ebusiness. It provides funding for teams and individuals to model sustainable practices in their own learning through a range of strategies including engagement with recent thinking about professional development in the ‘knowledge era’.
National Coordinator - Donna Hensley
More about LearnScope
Nationally
In 2005, a record 127 applications were received for LearnScope funding in NSW. Forty-six team-based projects were funded from all sectors of VET provision in metropolitan, rural and remote areas of the state. For the first time in 2005, six individual projects were also funded along with a Start Up team comprising 13 individuals from a range of providers. This year projects include investigations into national Toolboxes, mlearning (mobile learning), industry connections and training, the educational use of blogs (web based journals), ebusiness strategies, digital storytelling, and teaching and learning approaches with target groups such as youth and indigenous learners.
Collaboration and partnerships are a vital component of LearnScope’s success. To maximise those opportunities the NSW LearnScope teams make use of an online communication forum, a monthly newsletter, and a range of face to face workshops and showcase days.
NSW Coordinator - Robyn Jay
More about LearnScope
NSW
The 'Toolbox Champion' initiative has been established to provide support to Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) with a range of issues in using Toolboxes effectively in their programs.
A Toolbox is a collection of resources, suggested learning strategies and supporting material to support online delivery of vocational education and training.
NSW Toolbox Champion - Shane Dowd
More about The Toolbox initiative including access to the model websites from the Toolbox series and the NSW Toolbox Champion.
Completed Projects
Best of the Australian Flexible Learning Community 2001-2004
This site is a collection of resources that were developed in the Australian Flexible Learning Community between 2001 and 2004 as part of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework 2000-2004 . The Community was managed by ICVET until March 2005.
Resources in this archive include articles, how to guides, interviews, reviews, annotated links and summaries of events and discussions held in the Community. The browse structure of the site is based on five key themes:
- Technologies for Learning
- Teaching, Training and Learners
- Professional Development
- Managing Flexible Delivery
- Global Perspectives
For more about the Community
PD and Knowledge Sharing Framework for Skill Ecosystems Project, DET
The Skills Ecosystem Project is a national, industry based project exploring skills ecosystems as a new framework for understanding the factors that determine the demand, supply and use of skills within specific industries and regions. This is managed by the NSW Department of Education and Training.
ICVET was contracted to design and develop an appropriate knowledge sharing strategy to:
- engage targeted VET educational managers, policy makers, and innovators in the debate around implications arising from the Skills Ecosystem projects.
- facilitate RTOs learning how they can better partner with industry for improvement and innovation, support new opportunities for regional development, and increase their teaching and learning business to become the preferred VET partner
- identify PD implications and possibilities to strengthen the synergy between VET and industry.
Project Manager - Heather Ferguson