As part of a Workforce Development Strategy

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Implementation of e-learning across the stainless
steel industry
As part of a Workforce Development Strategy
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The project

• Develop a Workforce Development Strategy
  introducing blended learning development pathways
  for apprentices and existing staff that
  incorporate e-learning resources

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Why?

• Minimise loss of productivity for organisations
• Make learning rich and exciting for students

• Fast track VET training to overcome skill
  shortages
• Address current workforce development issues such
  as
• Aging workforce
• Regionalisation of industry
• Attracting and retaining staff
• Skills Shortages

Increase e-learning use
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Partners Relationships

• SkillsTech Australia - RTO Partner
• Stoddart Manufacturing - Lead Organisation
• Industry Partners consisting of key fabricators
  across Australia who may (or may not) be
  dedicated to training

A collaborative approach
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Project Progress

• Evaluation of industry training
• Sunshine Coast TAFE - 3 resources
• WA TAFEs
• SSSC, TIG Welding module and one other

Discovery phase
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Project Process

• SSSC mapping completed
• Results - mapped to
• MEM 14.4A
• MEM 14.5A
• MEM 5.12C
• MEM5.26C
• MEM 5.52A
• 2 x foundation and 4 x stage two or three of Cert
  3 in MEM05

Discovery phase
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Project Progress

• Online Concept Survey
• Sent to over 380 key members - 30 response
• Measure current attitudes/hurdles towards
  training e-learning

Discovery phase
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Responses

• Disadvantages - E-learning VS face to face
• Unable to ask questions
• Need a computer
• Trust in student (cheating/discipline/completion
  rates)
• No hands on experience

• Advantages - E-learning VS face to face
• Undertake at a convenient time
• No pressure of classroom
• Material revisted to understand
• Logistical benefits
• Resources always at hand - even after training

Discovery phase
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E-learner user testing

• To identify potential and appropriate demographic
• Industry and Tafe based exercise

Discovery phase
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NISC Starter tool

• Helps SMEs to develop strategies to attain future
  workforce
• Identify specific risks based on current
  situation industry trends
• Diffusion amongst industry partners, members and
  wider stainless steel industry

Discovery phase
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Benchmarks

• Benchmark End 08
• Employers using e-learning 24 28
• Coarses with e-learning 8 11
• Courses mapped to packages 8 11
• Employees involved in pilot 20 45
• Employees using e-learning 195 220

Targets
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Engaging employers

• Online survey to measure attitudes towards
  e-learning
• Face to face consultations to discuss project and
  its benefits
• Workforce Development Strategy - collation of
  issues, goals set, resources

Industry Involvement
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Workforce Development Strategy

• Highlight issues/risks
• Suggestion solutions
• Call to action
• Provide case studies of success
• Learning development pathways to sit within
  strategy

• Development strategy will encompass fast track
  training approaches to ensure a skilled workforce
• E-learning resources will offer such solutions

Purpose
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Workforce Development Strategy

• That there are enough people to do the work
• That there are appropriate skills in the
  workforce
• That people within the workforce remain in the
  workforce due to opportunity and satisfaction

• That skills and knowledge are retained in the
  workforce
• Future workforce gap strategies

5 Key Goals
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By end of year one.

• Collation of findings
• Development pathways
• Workforce Development Strategy
• Implementation across industry partners

Deliverables
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Diffusion

• Publications
• Free module for survey participants
• TIG Implementation at SkillsTech
• Face to face Consultations
• TAFE diffusion
• Hard copy training note upgrades

Marketing
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ASSDA Resources and LMS

• Exams for flash modules are conducted online -
  student/server relationship
• Not SCORM compliant but modules have been built
  this way so they can sit in other LMS

• Customised LMS using MY SQL database with html
  front end. Pearl PHP scripting
• Student engages through web browser - payment
  gateway and student centre
• Choice of e-learning flash modules or PDF
  resources with on-line bullet point exam

Sub- Title
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Risk Management

• TAFE teachers may not engage with e-learning
• Resourcing computers
• Computer literacy
• Training package mapping
• Management of project
• Targets reached