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VDC specialises in providing continuing professional learning for the Vocational Education and Training (VET) workforce as well as strategic support services for all VET providers in Australia. VDC has an extensive range of one hour webinars, half and full day workshops and special events such as VET Thought Leader Forums, conferences and other functions.

VDC can provide tailored professional learning activities to meet your organisation’s needs. For further information regarding customised PD options please contact Steven Deer, Senior Project Manager VDC [email protected] or 1300 917 150

2020 VDC Professional Learning Program

The VDC Professional Learning Program offers an extensive range of CPD opportunities for the VET Workforce under seven topic areas through one hour webinars, half and full day workshops as well as a range of special events. Click here to download 2020 Semester 1 Program. Registrations opening soon.

VDC Professional Learning Categories

 

All 2020 VDC webinars and workshops have been categorised as either Introductory, Intermediate or Advanced to describe the level of content being presented in the training. The categories are aligned to the levels in the VET Practitioner Capability Framework (IBSA 2011). The level descriptions are provided below.

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  • 15 Jul

    professional learning events

    VDC VET Chat with Sabina & Sarah

    Wed, 15 Jul 10:00AM–10:30AM
    $15 (inc GST)
    In this "new normal" we need to find ways to bring out the best of participants in virtual meetings. This VET Chat will explore ways to create a safe environment for increased interaction and productivity at meetings. The online session will enable you to gain an understanding of different personality types and offer ideas for how to encourage people to share ideas online.
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  • 15 Jul

    quality, compliance & auditing

    Webinar/Online Course: Understanding the Volume of Learning Requirements

    Wed, 15 Jul 12:30PM–1:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    This webinar explores how much time students should be spending on the various parts of a qualification and helps planners develop a 'defensible argument' for the volume of learning they attribute to a qualification and each unit within that qualification.
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  • 21 Jul

    teaching & learning strategies

    NEW Virtual Workshop: Learning Styles in the VET Classroom

    Tue, 21 Jul 10:00AM–1:00PM
    $110 (inc GST)
    Led by the dynamic duo of diversity education, Sarah Flynn and Sabina Qader, this session will help participants understand the impacts and benefits of different learning styles, how simple adaptations can boost learner engagement and work with student strengths to promote learning.
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  • 22 Jul

    professional learning events

    VDC VET Chat with Colleen Mandaliti

    Wed, 22 Jul 10:00AM–10:30AM
    $15 (inc GST)
    This VET Chat will seek your input to unpack the digital literacy and capability of VET practitioners and explore the difference between competence and capability. Let's look beyond the teaching of digital skills to the digital knowledge and skills practitioners will need to support learners into the future.
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  • 28 Jul

    quality, compliance & auditing

    Webinar/Online Course: Compliance Requirements for Trainer Industry Currency

    Tue, 28 Jul 12:30PM–1:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    This webinar can 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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  • 29 Jul

    professional learning events

    VDC VET Chat with Jules Haddock

    Wed, 29 Jul 10:00AM–10:30AM
    $15 (inc GST)
    Social distancing and isolation have put increased demands on both educators and students alike. This new climate predictably increases the likelihood of mental illness and the exacerbation of mental illnesses for many. Join this VET Chat to gain a further understanding of the effects of isolation on mental illness and for ways to offer creative engagement for students whilst maintaining our own mental wellness.
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  • 05 Aug

    assessment essentials

    NEW RELEASE Webinar: Developing Effective Competency-Based Assessment Tools

    Wed, 05 Aug 12:30PM–1:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    This 1-hour webinar will build an understanding of competency-based assessment and how this relates to specific assessment methods. In this online session we will discuss the definition and how it affects the development of assessment tools based on selected assessment methods.
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  • 07 Aug

    assessment essentials

    Webinar: Demystifying Assessment

    Fri, 07 Aug 3:30PM–4:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    This webinar puts assessment myths to rest. How many assessment events are necessary, and can we weight them? Can we grade competence? The webinar works through a string of myths, separates fact from fiction, and enables you to more confidently design and conduct assessments.
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  • 18 Aug

    assessment essentials

    Webinar: Incorporate Foundation Skills into Training

    Tue, 18 Aug 3:30PM–4:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    This webinar clarifies sometimes confusing terminology. Foundation skills, employability skills, core skills, LLN skills - are they the same or different? An important webinar outcome is deeper understanding of how to weave foundation skills and technical skills together when you deliver a unit of competency. Learn the top tips for building foundation skills into your training and assessment practice.
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  • 20 Aug

    assessment essentials

    Webinar: Complying with the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence

    Thu, 20 Aug 12:30PM–1:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    Take the opportunities provided in this webinar to unpack the Principles and Rules and understand what they require of your RTO. The webinar introduces effective validation strategies and evidence gathering for compliance purposes.
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  • 24 Aug

    quality, compliance & auditing

    Webinar: Observation Checklists - Getting the Criteria Right

    Mon, 24 Aug 12:30PM–1:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    This practical webinar 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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  • 25 Aug

    teaching & learning strategies

    NEW Virtual Workshop: Working with Vulnerable Young Adults in VET

    Tue, 25 Aug 10:00AM–1:00PM
    $110 (inc GST)
    Through exploring the issues and barriers to participation in education, and understanding the holistic role of teachers as educators, this session will equip teachers with the tools and strategies for outreach, collaboration and greater engagement.
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  • 26 Aug

    mapping & validation

    Webinar: Validating Online Assessments

    Wed, 26 Aug 12:30PM–1:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    This webinar enlarges online assessment perspectives by considering what makes online assessment practice distinctive. You leave the webinar with a firmer sense of how to align principles assessment, assessment designs, and validation processes.
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  • 27 Aug

    teaching & learning strategies

    NEW Virtual Workshop: Mental Health Awareness

    Thu, 27 Aug 10:00AM–1:00PM
    $110 (inc GST)
    This workshop describes the kinds of mental illness you may encounter and explains the effects of mental illness on learning. The virtual workshop builds confidence in raising conversations around mental illness, introduces strategies for engaging in supportive conversations that assist learners to manage their mental wellbeing and provides tips and strategies for supporting learners with their mental wellbeing.
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  • 28 Aug

    industry engagement

    NEW RELEASE Webinar: Utilising Effective Industry Engagement Strategies

    Fri, 28 Aug 12:30PM–1:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    This session will review the current compliance requirements and provide a range of industry engagement strategies for different RTO settings and industries. In this interactive webinar, participants will engage in a dynamic training experience using polls and collective knowledge to learn together.
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  • 01 Sep

    quality, compliance & auditing

    Webinar: Mapping Assessments Through a Compliance Lens

    Tue, 01 Sep 3:30PM–4:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    This webinar helps you get the most from mapping. We draw effective links between assessment design and mapping, and offer tested methods for documenting mapping. You are encouraged to share your mapping dilemmas and identify paths through them.
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  • 02 Sep

    leadership & management

    Webinar: Positive Behavioural Change

    Wed, 02 Sep 3:30PM–4:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    This interactive webinar enables participants to develop purposeful strategies to promote positive behaviours. The emphasis is on understanding what prompts challenging behaviours and how to influence and promote long-lasting change.
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  • 08 Sep

    quality, compliance & auditing

    Webinar: Compliance and Auditing for Online Assessment

    Tue, 08 Sep 3:30PM–4:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    This webinar invites participants to examine what differentiates online delivery from face-to-face delivery. Through this process, we will also examine compliance requirements, how they apply to online delivery and assessment, and how you can incorporate compliance as part of robust course design.
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  • 11 Sep

    assessment essentials

    Webinar: Third Party Reports & Assessment

    Fri, 11 Sep 12:30PM–1:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    This webinar explores elements of a practice framework that promotes and sustains employer participation in assessment. We consider when workplaces are appropriate sites for assessment, assessors' responsibilities, constraints on employer participation and strategies for workplace evidence gathering.
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  • 16 Sep

    teaching & learning strategies

    NEW Virtual Workshop: Working with Students from Culturally & Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Backgrounds in VET

    Wed, 16 Sep 10:00AM–1:00PM
    $110 (inc GST)
    This workshop offers insights and observations about differences in expectations, methods and practices in teaching learners from diverse cultural and language backgrounds. This workshop is designed for VET trainers with increased cultural diversity in their classes.
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  • 13 Oct

    teaching & learning strategies

    Webinar: Teaching Strategies for Challenging Behaviours

    Tue, 13 Oct 3:30PM–4:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    This webinar shares your experiences of challenging classroom behaviours, unpacks what gives rise to them, and repacks them with management strategies that support change.
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  • 27 Oct

    quality, compliance & auditing

    Webinar: Retention of Evidence - What, Why and How to Keep It

    Tue, 27 Oct 3:30PM–4:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    This webinar 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. And rather than filing an empty plate, we consider practical alternatives for evidence you can't retain.
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  • 29 Oct

    teaching & learning strategies

    NEW Webinar: Engaging International and Culturally Diverse Students

    Thu, 29 Oct 12:30PM–1:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    NEW - This workshop offers insights and observations about differences in expectations, methods and practices in teaching learners from diverse cultural and language backgrounds. It is most relevant to teachers and trainers who are conducting courses with increasing international enrolments and with diverse cohorts.
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  • 17 Nov

    assessment essentials

    Webinar/Online Course: RPL - The Devil's in the Detail

    Tue, 17 Nov 12:30PM–1:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    This webinar uncovers the devilish (compliance) detail that needs to be considered when offering and processing RPL.
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  • 19 Nov

    professional learning events

    VDC Teaching and Learning Virtual Conference 2020

    Thu, 19 Nov 8:30AM–3:30PM
    $155 (inc GST)
    The 2020 VDC Teaching & Learning Conference will now be virtual, held on the same days, Thursday 19 and Friday 20 November 2020. The program delves into the fundamentals for excellent vocational education and training practice. The 2020 VDC Virtual Conference will consist of highly interactive virtual workshops as well as high-profile keynote presentations on the theme of VET teaching and learning strategies for engaging with industry and learners.
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  • 20 Nov

    mapping & validation

    Webinar: Validation of Judgements

    Fri, 20 Nov 12:30PM–1:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    This webinar 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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  • 24 Nov

    assessment essentials

    Webinar: Assessment Questions for AQF Levels

    Tue, 24 Nov 12:30PM–1:30PM
    $55 (inc GST)
    Join the facilitator and your colleagues in framing good answers to teacherly questions. When are questions best suited to collecting evidence? What kinds of questions work well? What are the best tips for framing good questions? How can I be sure the answers I receive are those of the learner I'm assessing?
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