After you have
reviewed your staff capability, this section will assist
you to begin planning for the development of staff
capability. As a manager, you will need to consider the
linked resources in the context of your business
imperatives for flexible learning .
Visit the Strategy 2000
under the National Framework for collaboration in
Flexible learning project Business
Models for Flexible
Delivery (A
Strategy
2000 project).
The references below
provide a useful starting point for organisations in
planning the development of staff capability in emerging
technologies. These links will be supplemented by ANTA
Strategy 2001 projects, such as 'Closing the
Gap'.
Recommended
Resources and Links
From Desk to Disk:
Staff Development for VET Staff in Flexible Delivery,
ANTA, 1997
An ANTA
research project which aimed to develop practical
options to inform a national staff development
strategy for VET staff engaged in flexible delivery.
Focused on a work-based learning model of staff
development.
J. Stephenson,
'Corporate Capability: Implications for the Style and
Direction of Workbased Learning', Occasional Paper 99/1,
International Centre for Learner-Managed Learning,
University of Middlesex
www.rcvet.uts.edu.au/seminars.htm
See pp 1,
3, 2nd para see p2 diagram
Literature Review and
Exemplars: Staff Capability Review Approaches in a
Context of Emerging Technologies, 2000
The
research report which underpinned the Staff Capabiltiy
Review Framework project. Canvassed existing staff
capability models, and recommended parameters for a
new framework based on capabilities for flexible
learning using emerging technologies.
Trends in the Victorian
TAFE Institute Workforce: a Research Report, Office of
Post Compulsory Education, Training and Employment,
2000
Presents a
quantitative analysis of workforce trends in Victorian
TAFE Institutes. Raises critical issues about the
changing nature of work for TAFE staff, and the new
skill requirements that accompany these changes.
Learnscope (A
Strategy
2000
project)
www.learnscope.anta.gov.au
LearnScope
is a national professional development initiative
within the Australian VET sector. Through work-based
learning, funded LearnScope projects develop skills,
knowledge and understandings needed to apply new
learning technologies to achieve more flexible
learning in VET.
W. Curtis, W. Hefley,
S. Miller, People Capability Maturity Model
(P-CMM®)
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmm-p/
A
comprehensive human resource development model which
applies a TQM approach to issues of organisational and
team capability, as well as individual development.
Based on an earlier model which brought continuous
improvement approaches to 'the management and
development of the human assets of a software or
information systems organisation'.
Learning Technology
Dissemination Initiative
http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/
The
Learning Technology Dissemination Initiative was
funded between 1994 and 1999 by the Scottish Higher
Education Funding Council to promote the use of
learning technology and computer based learning
materials in Scottish Higher Education. The LTDI web
site will continue to provide free access to the
resources and publications that LTDI created.
C&IT Skills -
Developing Staff C&IT Capability in Higher
Education
http://www.uea.ac.uk/~k130/relatedwk.html
Report on
1999 investigations at the University of East Anglia,
UK, into a range of C&IT related issues, with a
major focus on strategic planning and developing a
skill strategy for staff.
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This project
is a professional development initiative within
the Framework for National Collaboration in
Flexible Learning in VET 2000-2004.
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