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Accommodating learners' needs and styles: conversation starter pack  
URL:http://www.icvet.tafensw.edu.au/resources/accommodating_learners.htm
Category:Learning Theory & Teaching Practice 

This learning styles conversation starter pack comprises a user guide and overheads with accompanying notes. The pack draws on literature and the experiences of a selected group of TAFE practitioners to present views on different learning styles. The user guide and overheads and notes are designed to generate discussion on learning styles.

ACE Experience: Pedagogies for Life and Employability  
URL:http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/edulibrary/public/teachlearn/student/ACE_Experience.pdf
Category:Learning Theory & Teaching Practice  Lifelong Learning Research 

This report is the outcome of a project whose purpose was to research adult and community education (ACE) pedagogies in order to gain a better understanding of the connection between pedagogical practices and generic skill outcomes and to tease out the ways in which the practices and the pedagogical culture of ACE interact to produce a 'complex tangle'of outcomes. Over recent years there has been increasing interest by employers, policy-makers and researchers in 'generic skills', also known as 'employability skills', 'life skills', 'key competencies', 'skills and attributes' or 'lifelong learning skills'. The research described in this report is an investigation of the pedagogies and contexts that are characteristic in ACE, and that foster and develop generic skills and attributes amongst ACE learners.

Action Research as Action Learning as Action Research as Action Learning ... at Multiple Levels in Adult Education  
URL:http://www.avetra.org.au/abstracts_and_papers_2001/Krogh_full.pdf
Category:Learning Theory & Teaching Practice 

Drawing on research that has been conducted in conjunction with assessment projects for final year Community Services students, this paper examines the use of action research as an action learning tool. The researcher explores and evaluates the application of action research and its exponential impact on the learning of students, educators, industry, training providers and community and in turn how that learning impacts on research.

Adaptive and Assistive Technologies in E-learning  
URL:http://pre2005.flexiblelearning.net.au/projects/resources/2005/adaptive_and_assistive_technologies_in_elearning_report.pdf
Category:Accessibility  Teaching and Learning Technologies  Disabilities & Learning Difficulties  Innovative Technologies  Access for All (Disabilities, Equity)  Learning Theory & Teaching Practice 

The report looks at the areas of learning where disadvantaged learners may require assistance and includes information about a selection of assistive and adaptive technologies. It deals with them first in terms of their application to the learning process, and then deals with them as technologies in their own right.

All Things Bold and Beautiful - Researching Adult Learning Through Soaps  
URL:http://edst.educ.ubc.ca/
Category:Lifelong Learning Policy  Learning Theory & Teaching Practice  Lifelong Learning Research 

This paper by Paul Armstrong of the University of London proposes that, globally, informal lifelong learning outside of education institutions is often neglected and that cultures of learning must recognise and value a wide range of informal learning. In popular culture, soap operas have both intentionally and unintentionally been sites for learning and their significance needs to be more thoroughly researched.

Are individual learners' the forgotten stakeholders?  
URL:http://avetra.org.au/documents/57-Stallard.pdf
Category:Learning Theory & Teaching Practice 

This paper was presented at the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA) 2007 Conference. The aim of the research is to identify practices and theory in vocational education and training (VET) teaching practice that have the most impact on quality VET outcomes. Learners are the focus of teaching practice in VET. Three key themes emerge. They are: learning styles is only one important factor when assessing individual needs; VET practitioners value learning through reflection on their practice; and the need to develop a knowledge bank that supports evidence based data on teaching practice. This paper also includes a model of a VET Learning Environment that includes 'not only the known but all potential sources of learning through external information, career guidance, industry and the workplace'.

Are TAFE Organisations Learning Organisations? Do they Walk the Talk?  
URL:http://www.avetra.org.au/abstracts_and_papers_2001/ARANDEZ-COMLEY-HOLDEN-KURIATA_full.pdf
Category:Research Resources & Statistics  Learning Theory & Teaching Practice  Lifelong Learning Research  Learning Cultures and Organisations 

This paper by Les Comley, Leoni Arandez, Sue Holden and Ewa Kuriata of the Centre for Curriculum Innovation and Development at the Victoria University TAFE Division adopts the perspective that to create a learning state, various requirements must be implemented through educational organisations and their teaching staff. The authors focus on TAFE organisations and question whether they are up to the task.

Atkinson Training  
URL:http://alexanderhayes.com/2008/02/atkinson-training-1/
Category:Learning Theory & Teaching Practice  Commercial Training & Consultancy 

Atkinson Training discuss web 2.0 opportunities for their business as early childcare training providers. They intend to use applications such as Moodle and WordPress to create online experiences where students/users feel more connected by using multimodal options. Their teachers are new to technology but participated in Learnscope last year with photostory in a dual learning and teaching capacity. In a year's time, they expect to have created premium made resources, an early childhood social network, easy online access for their students, and more options to connect with their tutors.

Back to the workplace: TAFE teachers and their emerging role as workforce development practitioners in enterprises  
URL:http://www.icvet.tafensw.edu.au/ezine/year_2008/sep/thinkpiece_back_to_workplace.htm
Category:General VET Research  Learning Theory & Teaching Practice 

This online article explores issues around workplace learning. Classroom and workplace learning environments provide different challenges for the TAFE teacher. There seems to be a shift from teachers' sites of practice from institutions to workplace environments.

Benefits for Staff Working in the Online Environment  
URL:http://nw2002.flexiblelearning.net.au/WebX?233@1.EbOma0RBajV.303@.f0c1099!enclosure=.f0c8dca
Category:Learning Theory & Teaching Practice 

This document examines traditional teaching practices and compares them with teaching online. The document suggests that by using the online environment as a teaching tool, teachers will have the freedom to pursue their own further learning.