Engineering pathways for regional Australia : viable learning platforms built by knowledge partnering.
A consortium of regional higher education (HE) and vocational education and training (VET) providers has partnered to create a learning platform: Engineering Pathways for Regional Australia (EPRA), which provides access to engineering pathways to expand curriculum choice and coverage. It reduces ind...
| Institutions: | University of Tasmania Deakin University Geraldton Universities Centre TAFE SA Tasmania TAFE University of Southern Queensland |
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Australia. Dept of Education
2019
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| Online toegang: | https://ltr.edu.au/resources/ID13-2984_EngeeringPathways_FinalReport_2019.pdf |
| Samenvatting: | A consortium of regional higher education (HE) and vocational education and training (VET) providers has partnered to create a learning platform: Engineering Pathways for Regional Australia (EPRA), which provides access to engineering pathways to expand curriculum choice and coverage. It reduces individual campus delivery costs and cross-institutional barriers, and improves the availability of engineers and associated para-professionals for regional resource and manufacturing economies. The learning platform is a multi-partner solution comprising knowledge partnering around institutional resources including (1) curriculum, (2) student enrolment systems and (3) delivery systems (e.g. immersive environments and virtual classrooms). The EPRA platform is the result of negotiations for a curriculum and enrolment sharing arrangement to deliver an online portal to manage cross-sectoral enrolment and certification of qualifications. Partners collaborated to resolve the curriculum and technical requirements necessary to build the learning platform to enable access and reduce the barriers that inhibit student learning and confidence. The reconfiguration of shared resources and capabilities into a learning platform enables a student, regardless of location, to complete a flexible program of study better suited to local/regional industry and student needs. The learning platform can generate guided learning pathways that effectively overcome institutional and student learning barriers often experienced because of thin markets in regional communities. The learning platform enables learning providers to be responsive to different cohorts of students in thin markets (e.g. mature age, first in family wanting a career outcome, those with trades qualifications able to access para-professional and professional skills, and industries in remote locations, e.g. mining) and increase choice, currency and the opportunity to experience different and specialised curricula. [Executive summary, ed] |
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| ISBN: | 9781760513573 (PDF) 9781760513597 (print ed) 9781760513580 (DOCX) 9781760513573 (PDF) 9781760513597 (print ed) 9781760513580 (DOCX) |
