Webinar Recordings
Missed a webinar?
We understand that it can be hard to find the time to attend a webinar or workshop during work hours.
As part of our continuous professional learning offering, the VDC has an extensive range of one-hour webinar recordings that are now available for download for only $55.00 Inc GST
Please note: A certificate of attendance WILL be issued for purchased webinar recordings.
Browse the multiple recordings that are available on the following topics of interest:
- Assessment Essentials
- Industry Engagement
- Quality, Compliance and Auditing
- Mapping and Validation
- Leadership & Management
- Teaching & Learning Strategies
VDC Products
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
Quality Assessment & Learning Resource Mapping - This webinar helps you get the most from mapping, Find out more
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Teaching and Learning Strategies
Delivering VET Online - This webinar will take you through the thought process of planning and implementing your online course, Find out more
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
Currency Documentation and Retention of Evidence - Covering everything you need to know, from what types of evidence should be collected, Find out more
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Assessment Essentials
Designing Appropriate Assessments for AQF Levels - Join assessment expert, Kevin Ekendahl for this essential webinar to learn how you can make sure your assessments are meeting the AQF level requirements. Find out more
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Assessment Essentials
Assessing Online: Tips and Tricks for Ticking all the Boxes - In this interactive webinar, innovative VET expert Shauna Farey presents a range of online tools and apps for eAssessments and shares how to critique each on their features and benefits. Find out more
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Leadership & Management
Positively Influencing Behavioural Change - Understanding the origin of human behaviours and our urge to fulfill basic human needs is the first step to influencing positive behaviour. Find out more
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Industry Engagement & Workforce Development
Effective Industry Engagement Strategies - In this interactive webinar, Kerri Buttery will review the current compliance requirements and provide a range of industry engagement strategies for different RTO settings and industries. Find out more
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Assessment Essentials
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Assessment Mapping - If you’ve ever struggled to get your head around Assessment Mapping – you cannot afford to miss this session. Find out more
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Teaching and Learning Strategies
Innovative Approaches for Robust Learning and Change - Are your teachers equipped to embrace change? Find out more
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
Volume of Learning Onsite - Confused by volume of learning requirements? Find out more
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Assessment Essentials
Developing Effective Competency-Based Assessment Tools - Are your competency-based assessment tools helping tell the story of your students’ progress? Find out more
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
Quality Assurance for Online and Blended Learning - The move to digital platforms has redefined what we need to look for in learning experiences. Digitally savvy students are setting high standards for their online learning experiences – and they expect course providers to keep up. Find out more
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
Third Party Evidence - "Ready to stop struggling with third-party evidence? If you’ve ever thought to yourself, ‘it shouldn’t be this hard to get quality evidence from third-parties’ – you’re right. Find out more
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Assessment Essentials
Making Judgements of RPL - RPL assessments need the same principles of assessment and rules of evidence as other assessments – but how can we make sure we’re gathering the right amount and types of evidence? Find out more
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Teaching and Learning Strategies
Micro-credentials & Digital Badging: The Biggest Opportunity in VET for 2021? - As the entire VET sector reshapes itself for the next wave of transition, there is a unique opportunity to establish the role of vocational education in the future by exploring the ways we are meeting the demands for assessing microlearning and issuing micro credentials both in vocational education and the workplace. Find out more
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Teaching and Learning Strategies
Engaging Students using Strength-Based Teaching Techniques - Do your students know what their strengths are and how to use them to learn? Find out more
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
Introduction to the National VET System - Trying to get your head around Australia’s VET system? If you’ve been wondering how Australia’s largest educational system works – our upcoming webinar is perfect. Whether you are an experienced professional looking for a refresher on the system, or looking to enter the industry, this session on the VET system is the perfect starting point. Find out more
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Teaching and Learning Strategies
A Model for Managing Behaviours of Concern - Having a clear framework that supports staff can reduce the burnout, stress and staff retention issues that often come with working with behaviors of concern. Find out more
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
Preparing for Audits – Identify and Organise Evidence - While the mere thought of an audit can send a shiver down most people’s spine, they don’t need to be that way. Audits should be a positive feedback process, where you get valuable feedback on both the areas you’re already doing well, as well as areas to focus on for future improvements. Find out more
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Teaching and Learning Strategies
Increased Digital Literacy & Proficiency - Tasked with the role of preparing students for an increasingly digital future of work, VET practitioners are called to be at the forefront of digital change. Find out more
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Teaching and Learning Strategies
21 Century Skills – Currency for Success - Being prepared with 21st century skills such as interpersonal, creative, critical thinking, problem-solving skills and resilience will ensure they are adaptable learners who can keep up with the pace of change in the workplaces of the future. Find out more
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Assessment Essentials
Quality Assuring Competency Based Assessment Tools - Are your assessment tools up to the job? If it’s been a while since you reviewed them this is the perfect opportunity to take a look into your virtual assessment toolkit and see what’s working and what’s not. Find out more
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Mapping & Validation
*NEW* Validation of Judgements - In this webinar, Anni Yaringa brings good news. With the guidance of a facilitator experienced in systematic validation, we clarify the expectations. The webinar introduces established understandings about efficient and effective validation processes that deliver both quality outcomes and compliance outputs (including documentation).
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Assessment Essentials
*NEW* Third Party Reports and Assessment - Is a workplace assessment always the answer? In many cases it can be and has many benefits to the student. If you’re not sure when, how or why workplace assessments should be performed, this webinar is essential for you. Find out more
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
*NEW* Retention of Evidence – What, Why and How to Keep It - In this webinar, Anni Yaringa regards evidence with the attentive eyes of a regulator and auditor. What passes muster in their view? We round up details about your responsibilities for collecting, keeping and locating evidence.
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
*NEW* Pre-Training Review of Learners - In this webinar, Anni Yaringa helps to extend your confidence in designing and conducting PTR processes that are learner-centred, informative, constructive and compliant. Together we consider how to link PTR outcomes to enrolment processes and individual learning plans.
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
*NEW* Preparing for an Audit - In this webinar, Anni Yaringa examines clauses 1.8 - 1.12 of the Standards - the assessment clauses. We unpack the meanings and expectations wrapped up in them. You will take away an understanding of how to document assessment practice, so your RTO's guarantee is good, and you are always audit ready.
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Mapping & Validation
*NEW* Pre-Assessment Validation of Assessment Design - In this webinar, Anni Yaringa invites you to consider options for frontloading quality assurance for assessment tools. Drawing on quality expectations set down in the Standards for RTOs (2015), we investigate the design and documentation requirements for best practice assessment tools.
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
*NEW* Observation Checklists – Getting the Criteria Right - In this practical webinar, Anni Yaringa steps through the construction of effective, efficient observation checklists. You will build capability in extracting assessment criteria from units of competency and develop understanding about what constitutes observable performance.
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
*NEW* Establish and manage practical work placements - In this webinar, Bernadette Delaney will examine a range of administrative, regulatory and educational requirements that are necessary to ensure a meaningful training experience for your students.
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Assessment Essentials
*NEW* Effective Assessment Tools - Assessment tools are intricate pieces of VET machinery. Its component parts include describing the conditions in which assessment occurs, specification of assessment tasks, and clear statements about the evidence to be collected and the performance benchmarks to be applied. Assessment tools also record assessment outcomes. In this webinar, Sarah Phillips strips down an assessment tool into its component parts. We examine the function of each part, and how to assemble a working version that supports teachers to fulfil their responsibilities, is clear to students, and meets audit expectations.
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
*NEW* Compliance Requirements for Trainer Industry Currency - In this webinar, Kevin Ekendahl will assist you to boost your confidence and capability in meeting industry currency expectations - what the Standards require, what strategies you can roll out to maintain industry currency, and what good evidence looks like to an auditor.
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Teaching and Learning Strategies
*NEW* Blending online with face to face training - In this webinar, Sarah Phillips will help participants learn more about the practices we deploy to ensure online and face-to-face delivery are well integrated, workable and effective.
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
*NEW* Ask an Auditor - Preparing for an audit can be intimidating – what will they need? How do they work? What can I do to prepare? What tricky questions will they ask? Am I going to pass? Join Kevin Ekendahl in this 1-hour webinar.
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
Applying reasonable adjustment - Join Kevin Ekendahl in putting together the pieces of the fairness puzzle. We consider fairness from learner, assessor and regulator perspectives and arrive at an integrated understanding. We work through expectations about reasonable adjustment, preserving assessment integrity and record keeping.
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Assessment Essentials
Designing assessment tools for clustered units - In this webinar, Anni Yaringa explores strategic approaches to assessment for clustered units. Find out more
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Assessment Essentials
How to create effective marking guides and rubrics - In this webinar, Michael Gwyther discusses the characteristics of marking guides and effective rubrics, and how to map a rubric to a competency and how to take rubrics online. Find out more
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Online Delivery
8 RTO concerns about online delivery and how to overcome them - In this webinar, Michael Gwyther pushes past limiting views to open up the extraordinary learning and teaching opportunities offered by digital learning technologies. Find out more
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Online Delivery
Converting classroom teaching to online activities - In this webinar, Michael Gwyther examines key principles in blended learning which address the balance between teacher-initiated activity and learner empowerment. Find out more
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
Copyright for the VET educator - In this webinar, Vanessa Tuckfield covers copyright for VET educators. Find out more
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Online Delivery
Developing your online assessment plan - In this webinar, Sarah Phillips examines kinds of assessment best-suited to online formats. Find out more
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
Grading in a competency framework - In this webinar, Anni Yaringa enters the debate about competence and grading, explains the differences, and steps out valid and reliable approaches for both assessing competence and allocating a grade. Find out more
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
Understanding the rules of evidence - In this webinar, Anni Yaringa unpacks the rules applying to each dimension, and explains how to demonstrate you’ve applied the rules in your assessment designs and practice. Find out more
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Online Delivery
Juggling online and face-to-face delivery together - In this webinar, Sarah Phillips investigates blended teaching practice. We emphasise the value of careful planning, point to resources that support blended teaching and learning, and explore the benefits of team teaching in successfully meshing online and face-to-face learning environments. Find out more
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Quality, Compliance and Auditing
Understanding the volume of learning requirements - In this webinar, Anni Yaringa teases out such dilemmas and helps planners develop a ‘defensible argument’ for the volume of learning they attribute to a qualification and each unit within that qualification. Find out more
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Online Delivery
Meeting the Standard 1 requirement using Moodle - In this webinar, Allison Miller shows how you can reduce the complexity because Moodle can efficiently collect evidence about quality training and assessment. Find out more
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Teaching and Learning Strategies
How to bring learning alive and engage learners - In this webinar, Karen Dymke explores strategies that combine to produce consistent student engagement. We work through ideas about building and sustaining a learning climate among your students. Find out more
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Online Delivery
Peer review teaching and learning in the classroom - In this webinar, Michael Gwyther explains the purposes of peer review and how teachers can activate it in training and assessment. Find out more
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Teaching and Learning Strategies
Teaching strategies for challenging behaviours - In this webinar, Karen Dymke shares your experiences of challenging classroom behaviours, unpacks what gives rise to them, and repacks them with management strategies that support change. Find out more
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Online Delivery
What makes a successful online facilitator? - In this webinar, Michael Gwyther looks at the characteristics of online learning spaces that will influence the strategies trainers need to drive learning there with the same confidence they exhibit in the classroom. Find out more