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The project will focus on using e-learning as a strategy to empower learners in accessing vocational training to meet their professional development requirements. In particular, e-learning will be used to provide training that accommodates people’s need to work on a full time basis and to remove geographical barriers where people cannot access training through local providers.

Specifically the project will empower individual learners in the civil construction industry by responding to their needs for recognition of prior learning and by providing a rich learning environment that is structured around their personal and work commitments. This will be achieved by utilising a combination of e-learning strategies that will be delivered as an informal partnership between students, workplace supervisors and trainers.

At its conclusion the project will define a delivery model that utilises informal industry partnerships, distance education and e-learning delivery strategies to provide a cost effective, accessible and efficient delivery model for civil construction training. It is a model where both RTOs and employers have a vested interest. It will demonstrate how e-learning can be adapted to help employers to fill a training need and it will provide RTOs with the mechanism to meet training requirements across a range of industry and demographic sectors that currently cannot access appropriate training.

The project will assist RTO’s in embedding e-learning into their business strategies by providing a case study example of how e-learning can be customised and implemented in a low cost and technologically friendly manner.