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The challenge in the Entertainment industry is the 24/7 working hours of the Clients (Work based trainees/ RPL applicants). Ever changing, non consistent rosters for clients cause barriers to attend scheduled face to face learning / assessments causing them to be unavailable due to business needs.

Staging Connections (an Enterprise based RTO) in conjunction with two other RTOs will research solutions to assist with the development of new training and assessment modules engaging clients using new emerging technologies to increase access to flexible learning.

The project focus will be to provide: • Flexible learning options for the training • Accessibility- ability to engage from any where anytime • Increase engagement of clients Through • Improving on existing tools and trialling new resources to increase our training to be a more blended learning solution.

A number of staff are e-learning champions having participated in online courses and the project will seek to use them as mentors. There has been the implementation of the Intranet site which acts a rudimentary repository of information for staff, SMS communication is utilised to deliver rosters to staff.

The project will be looking to extend the above functions, increase the tools available and seek new platforms available to deliver more flexible learning options and assessment. The technology currently being used includes email, use of intranet, online resources, phone, some web conferencing which we will be seeking to extend. The project will be developing digital resources, allowing learning and assessment to be more flexible and accessible, building the capacity and capability of our organisation.

Limitations of current practices • There is currently no ability for Students to complete the work in their own self paced way as they cannot access adequate e-learning assessment options. • Students do not return written components therefore an online blogging solution is desirable. • The demand from the industry requires students to attend work on demand this doesn’t allow the student to be able to complete a face to face session.