Teaching, training and assessment resources > Curriculum/training content
Resources on this page are a mix of free and for purchase and are categorised as 'research' or 'focus on practice'. All resources listed are Australian in origin unless otherwise labelled.
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What's new in Curriculum/training content
- Velg Training [added 26 February 2024]
- RTO resources [for purchase] [added 11 December 2023]
- eSkilled offers RTO training resources with matching SCORM-compliant e-Learning resources, offering built-in e-Learning course packs with narrated audio, interactive elements, and self-marking quizzes.
- Precision RTO Resources offers over 9,000 training and assessment resources which include learner resources, learning activity booklets, PowerPoint presentations, assessment packs for both assessors and students, observation forms, assessor checklists, and detailed learner resource and assessment mapping.
- RTO Learning Materials provides training and assessment resources from Certificate I to Graduate Diploma levels. Provides complementary updates for purchased resources, simulated business sites and audit rectification guarantee when applicable.
- VET Qualification Reform [added 11 December, 2023]
Building on their October 2022 agreement to reform the framework for VET qualifications, Skills Ministers have recommitted to substantial qualification reform. In response to stakeholder feedback, a time-limited tripartite Qualifications Reform Design Group (Design Group) has been established. Jobs and Skills Councils will provide expert advice to the Design Group on the proposed design and their application within their industries, before further work in 2024 to develop a change program for transitioning VET qualifications.
Training Packages
Overview
- Training Packages and accredited courses, often referred to as training products, are key features of Australia's VET system. They are used as the basis for most programs delivered by registered training organisations (RTOs), and they are developed and reviewed in accordance with national standards. (Source: MySkills)
- Training Packages define the competencies required by different occupations and industries and describe how these competencies may be packaged into nationally recognised and portable qualifications that comply with the Australian Qualifications Framework. Training Packages have three compulsory endorsed components: (1) qualifications, (2) competency standards, and (3) assessment guidelines. (Source: Glossary of VET)
- From January 2023, training packages are developed by the Jobs and Skills Councils (JSCs), and assessed by the Training Package Assurance team within the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations for compliance against the standards and policies set by Ministers. Training packages are then endorsed by Australian and state and Skills Ministers, approving them for use throughout Australia.
- The 'Training package organising framework' is a set of rules owned by Skills Ministers which include content and process requirements that guide the development and content of nationally recognised training packages. It is comprised of the following policies: (1) Standards for training packages; (2) Training package products policy; and (3) Training package products development and endorsement process policy. The framework was updated in November 2022 in preparation for the implementation of new industry engagement arrangements from January 2023.
- Training package products policy
This policy outlines the design rules that training package developers must adhere to when developing (or modifying) a training package product. - Standards for training packages
The purpose of this document is to ensure training packages are of high quality and meet the workforce development needs of industry, enterprises and individuals. - Training package products development and endorsement process policy
This document sets out the pathways and processes for training package development and identifies specific roles and accountabilities for relevant stakeholders. It also sets out where the full development and endorsement process applies, and when and how minor changes can be made to existing training packages.
- Training package products policy
- The National Register of VET - training.gov.au holds information including:
- Nationally recognised training (NRT): training packages, qualifications, units of competency, skill sets and accredited courses.
- Registered training organisations (RTOs) that are approved to deliver nationally recognised training.
- More information about training products in the Australian VET system is available on the VET Knowledge Bank.
Free resources
Research
- Focussing on generic skills in training packages [2002]
(Source: NCVER)
Ten industry training packages are investigated to assess how much focus they give to the attainment of generic skills. Drawing on recent case studies where generic skills are taught in companies and TAFE institutes using training packages, the study also examines approaches that can enhance the delivery of generic skills so that students are better prepared for the new demands of the workplace. - High-use training package qualifications [2018]
(Source: NCVER) - Responding to changing skill demands: training packages and accredited courses [2010]
(Source: NCVER)
This report looks at whether VET is equipped to meet the changing needs of the modern workplace.
Focus on practice
- Contextualising teaching and learning: a guide for VET teachers [2005]
Developed by ANTA, this practical guide is for VET trainers who work with training packages and are seeking to implement learner-centred, flexible and innovative approaches to teaching and learning. It caters for pracitioners working with a diverse range of learners and contains user-friendly ways to contextualise learning in a range of 'classrooms' - from an educational institution or factory floor to online. Also included in the guide is a range of professional development strategies and activities that will assist trainers to fully utilise this resource. - Smartcopying: the official guide to copyright issues for Australian schools and TAFE
This website has been produced by the National Copyright Unit on behalf of the Copyright Advisory Groups (Schools and TAFEs). - Teaching and learning resources [see bottom of page]
(Source: Western Australian Department of Training and Workforce Development)
The Department's teaching and learning resources (formerly from WestOne Services) are now available under Creative Commons licence. - VETNet
VETNet provides a central storage facility for relevant current and historical materials relating to the national VET sector, in particular companion volumes implementation guides.
Access more items in VOCEDplus
- Podlet [archived]: Non-accredited training [final update December 2018]
- Podlet [archived]: Training Packages [final update December 2018]
For purchase
These are examples only of commercial producers of training and assessment resources. Inclusion on this list does not signify endorsement by NCVER.
- Aspire Learning Resources
Specialises in the development of competency-based training and assessment resources for VET - Compliant Learning Resources
Resources for certificate and diploma vocational and assessment for use in RTOs and TAFEs across Australia. - Eduworks Resources
Eduworks Resources provides ready-to-use and easy-to-customise learning and assessment kits for a wide range of nationally recognised qualifications and units. This company is also able to create new training and/or assessment resources and validate or adjust existing materials. - eSkilled offers RTO training resources with matching SCORM-compliant e-Learning resources, offering built-in e-Learning course packs with narrated audio, interactive elements, and self-marking quizzes.
- Precision RTO Resources offers over 9,000 training and assessment resources which include learner resources, learning activity booklets, PowerPoint presentations, assessment packs for both assessors and students, observation forms, assessor checklists, and detailed learner resource and assessment mapping.
- RTO Learning Materials provides training and assessment resources from Certificate I to Graduate Diploma levels. Provides complementary updates for purchased resources, simulated business sites and audit rectification guarantee when applicable.
- RTO Materials
Provides compliant learning resources for Certificate I, Certificate II, Certificate III, Certificate IV, Diploma and Advanced Diploma level. - RTO Training Resources
Resources available cover pre-packaged qualifications from Certificate I to Advanced Diploma, as well as individual units of competency, across a wide range of training package areas. The majority of training resources consist of materials specifically developed for blended/online learning. - Smallprint
- This company presents a library of training materials and assessment tools covering over 1,150 units, 140 qualifications and 12 training packages.
- Total VET Training Resources
Training and assessment resources for Units of Competence and Qualifications, plus RPL kits, LLN tools and other RTO resources. - Training Resource Solutions
Training Resource Solutions were formally part of Culinary Solutions Australia, however rebranded in 2012 as the company expanded from solely creating hospitality resources, to developing resources for other training packages. Our training and assessment resources are designed to be easy to use and make sense to students, trainers and education professionals managing the compliance needs of the RTO. - Velg Training [added February 2024]
- Curriculum and training resources for purchase
- Curriculum and training webinars for purchase
- Design of training and assessment strategies and industry consultation
- Design: designing quality training
- EEEK! My Training Package has been updated!
- The big shift: designing for virtual classrooms
- The TAS trilogy: let your TAS tell the story (webinar series)
- Unpacking Training Packages to meet client needs
Industry specific resources
Free resources
Focus on practice
- ForestWorks
An industry owned not-for-profit organisation offering skills development services for industry. - Industry Engaged professional currency courses
(Source: Engaging Education)
Industry Engaged worked with professionals and business owners in industry to create resources that aim to connect trainers with industry to comply with essential professional currency, and to enrich training and assessment with performance skills, competencies and knowledge in context. These resources comprise: (1) case studies relating to particular industry training package units of currency, with follow up recorded discussions with a professional to provide the industry perspective on the case study tasks; and (2) insights interviews with industry experts and professionals that focus on the industry knowledge and application of underpinning concepts and theory; each interview recording includes the full transcript. Free examples of course materials from 2020 are available in VOCEDplus. As COVID restrictions eased and access to workplaces opened up again Industry Engaged drew to a close.
Industries covered include: Information, Digital Media and Technology; Business and Work Skills; Hospitality and Tourism; Care and Community; Sport and Recreation; Community Services and Volunteering. - Teaching and learning resources [across industries]
(Source: WA Department of Training and Workforce Development)
For purchase
These are examples only of commercial producers of training and assessment resources. Inclusion on this list does not signify endorsement by NCVER.
- CannyHQ Simulated Business
(Source: Training Tools)
Designed to support BSB qualifications AQF 1-3, this live simulated business enables students to log in as they would to a real workplace intranet to access over 100 policies, procedures, templates, etc. to support their BSB-related studies. - Skin Deep Learning [Practitioner recommendation]
Fully compliant SHB Hairdressing and Beauty Training and Assessment Resources. - VET Cengage
Industry specific curriculum (training content)
Open Educational Resources
Overview
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium - digital or otherwise - that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.
Free resources
Focus on practice
- Guidebook on Open Educational Resources (OER) [2019, Europe]
- OEL Toolkit
The Open Education Licensing research project investigated open educational practice in Australian higher education. The OEL Toolkit, developed by Swinburne University and the University of Tasmania, provides guidance about finding and using OERs. - OER in TVET [international, 2018]
- OER Knowledge Cloud
(Source: UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning) - The OER starter kit [US]
(Source: Iowa State University Digital Press, 2019)
This starter kit has been designed to equip instructors with the skills they need to confidently find, use, or even create open educational resources (OER). To do this, the book has been broken up into five major sections covering important aspects of working with OER: getting started; copyright; finding OER; teaching with OER; and creating OER. In each chapter, learning objectives are provided to explain what the reader will learn and, in many cases, interactive exercises and examples are available as well. - Open Author [US]
Open Author helps you build OERs, lessons plans, and courses (on your own or with others) and then publish them for the benefit of others. - Open Educational Resources (OER)
(Source: EDUCAUSE) - Open Educational Resources
(Source: University of Canberra)