2009 E-learning Innovations projects - Tasmania

In 2009, 13 projects have been awarded a total of $288,800 to deliver innovative e-learning solutions in Tasmania. The successful projects are tailored to Tasmania's vocational education and training (VET) priorities.

Tasmania's E-learning Innovations projects for 2009 are:

Project name	Project description	Funding category: Business-training provider partnership or  Empowering learners	Learner group(s)	Registered training organisation (RTO) or RTO and business partner
Federal Group E-Orientation	Federal Group has turned to on-line learning as a solution to the challenges of delivering a consistent, high quality and dynamic e-Orientation experience for all its new employees enabling equity and timeliness of access across geographically distributed hospitality and tourism workplaces, particularly in remote locations.  This project experience will enhance the business's appreciation of the value of integrating e-learning into a viable blended learning & development alternative; inspiring future adaptations. Federal Group's project delivers interactive on-line training and assessment for the unit of Develop and Update Industry Knowledge and Facilitate E-learning units of competency.	Business-training provider partnership	New employees	The Federal Group and GlobalNet ICT Pty Ltd
Pilat-e	This project will provide e-learning options for underpinning and essential knowledge for HLTAP401A Confirm physical health status within the Health Training Package relating to Pilates Instructor qualifications.	Business-training provider partnership	Mature age learners Time poor learners	Island Health College and Australian Pilates Method Association (APMA)
E-furn		FLEX learners - traditionally students whom can not attend face-to-face classes and therefore must learn through a distance delivery strategy	Tasmanian Polytechnic
E-tag learning table in the Health Care environment	This project will assist learners in exploring e-learning with training and assessment in the clinical simulation area for nursing and health studies. This project will enhance the e-learning already established for the large cohort of learners in Health Services.	Empowering learners	Mature age learners College and school students	Tasmanian Polytechnic
Skillsbook	This project intended to introduce users to social learning, whereby comments, feedback, and discussions are used within the learning group to support each other and grow knowledge. The project also introduced new technologies for monitoring students work for teachers.  To create ease of use from an assessors view creating dashboards allowed teachers with different technology skill levels to access their students work for assessment.  This also avoided the need to excessive training for teachers, as they only need to monitor their students, because students drive the content for their ePortfolios.	Empowering learners	VET learners and teachers	Recognise-IT and Rosny College

NOTE: All effort has been made to ensure the above information was true and correct at the time of posting. As with all projects of an innovative nature, some alteration of processes and objectives may occur.