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On November 30th San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, which has a close relationship with Microsoft, launched ChatGPT, an online AI app. It’s part of a new generation of AI systems that can converse, generate readable text on demand and even produce novel images and video based on what they’ve learned from a vast database of digital …
If you thought you could just update your old paper-based learning resources to deliver the new CPC40120 Certificate IV in Building and Construction, or CPC50220 Diploma in Building and Construction, you might be in for a rude shock. Not only are the units completely rewritten, but they also require students to have access to digital …
Can you use an LMS (Learning Management System) for training CRICOS students? The answer is ‘yes’, but how could you make it work practically, while maintaining compliance with CRICOS requirements? At Edubytes, we often get asked by CRICOS RTOs if we would supply our learning resources in paper-based form. The answer is always ‘no’, because …
April 1st 2021, Melbourne The Federal Government has launched a new Parenting training package to overhaul the way children are raised in Australia. The training package features four qualifications, including a Certificate III in Parenting for new parents, a Diploma in Parenting for parents with teenagers, and an Advanced Diploma in Parenting for grandparents. “It’s …
The COVID pandemic has forced many colleges, RTOs and institutions on-line. In their haste to adapt, many have chosen on-line webinar or presentation platforms as the fastest way to offer ‘on-line education’. It is a shame that for many students and trainers, their introduction to ‘online training’ is a bad imitation of instructor led lectures, …
Most RTOs give their students boring PDFs, text books, or ‘learner guides’ written by RTO compliance gurus with zero understanding of the trade, and zero industry experience. Boring! The best way to learn a trade is by watching and doing. Ask any apprentice or student, and they will tell you they prefer this learning style, …
The construction industry poses its own unique challenges to RTOs and organisations providing an e-learning solution. Here are our top eight tips and hints to successfully use e-learning for construction apprenticeships: Use multi-media effectively. It’s no secret that tradies hate reading and writing. Otherwise they wouldn’t be tradies. They learn kinetically, with their eyes and …
The Australian Industry Skills Council has approved 25 updated qualifications from the building and construction training package. This means you will soon need to start enroling any new apprentices in the new qualification. Existing students who are due to complete within the next 12 months will be able to continue in their current course. There …
Education is going global. It is Australia’s third largest export, but this could drop dramatically if Australian institutes and colleges don’t adapt to new technology. Australia has the capacity to become a global education powerhouse if we free our minds from traditional notions of what education should look like, and focus on how we can …
