Conference Sponsors
Department of Primary Industries and Water
The FarmPoint website has been developed by the Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment (DPIW) to provide information and ready access to everything a Tasmanian farmer needs to know to manage their business and property successfully. In using FarmPoint, farmers will be able to manage and develop their businesses, utilise information for property management planning and access Government information in a user-friendly format.
Live since May 2007, the objective is that FarmPoint will be the 'Website of choice for Tasmanian farmers', offering a one-stop entry point to all farming information by the completion of the 4-year project.
www.farmpoint.tas.gov.au and www.dpiw.tas.gov.au
Faculty of Education - University of Tasmania
At UTAS your career of teaching adults can really take off.
If you have a relevant qualification from the VET sector or another tertiary provider you could gain credit in the three-year Bachelor of Adult and Vocational Education degree at UTAS and further your career as a teacher of adults. Web-based delivery with off-campus study in full-time or part-time mode means you can set your own pace. Call 1800 061 512 or visit our website.
Group Training Australia
Group Training is the largest single employer of apprentices and trainees across the country and Group Training Australia (GTA) is the national peak body representing over 120 of these organisations. GTA has opportunities for RTOs and related industry organisations to become actively involved in pre apprenticeship programmes through the Australian Apprenticeship Access Programme (Access), Group Training in the Trades Programme (GTTP), Structured Training and Employment Programme Employment and Related Services (STEP ERS) and Try a Trade initiatives in regional Australia.
Quicken
Quicken Australia, producers of QuickBooks, the world's most popular accounting software for SMEs, provides affordable and customised resources for education use. For an annual fee of $300 your TAFE College can install (unlimited)
1. QuickBooks Student Version, which includes easy to use tutorials that focus on classroom applications
2. Quicken Elite Tax.Used byaccounting practices thissoftware is ideal for courses where students prepare complex tax returns and lodgements.
3. Quicken Personal Plus. Australia's most popular personal finance package, the student version comes with easy to use tutorials that focus on classroom applications.
New Practices Project - TAFE
TAFE Tasmania in partnership with New England TAFE were successful in gaining Flexible Learning Framework project funding to “Extend the QTImPlayer to advantage enterprises (learning and corporate)”
Project description: In 2005 New Practices funded the development of the QTI Player for use in the then emerging mobile learning environment. This was a great leap forward for learning and assessment in the workplace. Since then the demand for on the job training and assessment has increased ten fold. With this teachers and assessors have been burdened with the need for both double handling of learning content including assessment tools and data when in the field. This project intends to extend the development and use of the QTI Player, that functions on hand held devices, to enable practitioners in the field to access content, assess students in their workplace, provide feedback and then upload the data in a secure way to the learning enterprises systems and eventually their Student Management System. The first project only covered the development of the QTI Player and did not cover in its scope the use of remote access and uploading of data to an organisational system.
