Want to deliver your training by blended learning or eLearning but need some help to make it happen?

Want to use WEB CT?

Heard of the TAFE Virtual Campus and would like to explore using it, but the administration looks too time consuming?

....or maybe you already use WEBCT or the TAFE VC and would like to consider outsourcing the administration to free up staff for other work?

• Course Management (i.e. Shared Designer, Teaching Assistants and Students)
• Addition of new course modules and course backups
• Maintenance of 'discussion' messages (i.e. addition of topics, message deletion, as required by client
• On-site service and assistance, as may be required by Provider Administrators
  
  This service is costed at a low flat hourly rate.

• General customisation of ANTA Toolboxes
• Maintenance of course content and tools

Skills audits, mapping and training design services

We conduct skills audits, mapping of training to nationally accredited training, develop strategic plans for education and training, conduct and source training, and even source appropriate funding for your organization.

Australia has an excellent national training system! We provide consultancy services on a broad range of areas around the system and nationally accredited training. Whether you are contemplating becoming a Registered Training Organisation , developing competency based training, finding appropriate accredited training for your staff or members, locate funding opportunities for training, or wanting to build a program that will last many years, Aspin Online Consulting can assist you. We can help you define what you want, and then help you source what you need. Contact us to arrange a time where we can come to you for a one hour no obligation meeting to help you begin the process.

Still not sure?

Click here to download a checklist on whether you should consider a skills audit

Read a case study about our work with the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia in October 2004 edition of Frontiers magazine.

Workforce planning to meeting the needs of your flexible workforce

Meeting the skills needs of your flexible workforce can be daunting! Most industries are faced with an aging workforce and staff retention issues. Employees want more flexible working options including part-time, job share, compressed working weeks, and working from home. Your workforce may be increasingly online, remote and mobile. How will you manage all this into the future?

Aspin Online Consulting has extensive experience in understanding the flexible workforce, its current and future training needs. How we can help you.

• We can help by defining your current situation in a way management, CEO and Board can relate to.
• Then we can work with you to develop your 3-5 year strategic plan for education and training.
• Finally we can help you implement the plan by sourcing funding and training, by providing professional development for management and trainers, and by providing induction programs for employees.

Your first step is to call us and arrange a no obligation discussion about your needs. After this, we provide advice on the next appropriate steps, for example we may recommend undertaking an audit of your training needs. Here we undertake some background research of government research and reports for your workforce, and also discuss industry needs with key stakeholders. Then we develop surveys to distribute to management, stakeholders and staff, and conduct interviews with identified key people inside and maybe out side your organization. Lastly we analyse the results, provide you and your Council or stakeholders with a written and verbal report, and a set of recommendations.

You may already have a comprehensive understanding of your workforce needs, but need to get a program underway. Here is where an independent education and training consultant can really help. We can source the right training providers for you, help you deal with government authorities and in most cases find funding assistance to make it happen.

Our backgrounds in education and training, government and industry ensure you get the best quality service, and can tap into our large knowledge networks. We can also source and work with other services for you including comprehensive evaluations conducted by fully qualified consultants with impressive government and industry experience.

Please don't hesitate to contact us to discuss your needs.

Click here to download flyer.

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Mentoring, coaching and facilitating

Aspin Online Consulting are facilitators and mentors for several projects and services. Here are some examples:

- Margaret Aspin was the mentor of 140 Flexible Learning Leaders across Australia in 2004
- ReFraming the Future and Learnscope projects. Our team facilitated the PSA Vic ReFraming the Future project in 2004 and Western Health/PSA Vic Learnscope project in 2005.
- Ron Aspin has been providing facilitation services to Lifeworks Relationship Counselling for many years. Private couples can contact Ron 03 9431 1811 or at ron@aspinonlineconsulting.com.au
- We mentor senior managers in issues surrounding eLearning and workforce development.

Facilitation and mentoring can be provided face to face or online.

Our rates are dependent on the type of facilitation or mentoring. Tell us what you need and we will provide a no obligation quote!

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Guest speaking

Margaret Aspin

Margaret Aspin is regularly invited to give guest lectures on eLearning and flexible working in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

Clients include Swinburne University, PICS, South Sydney Institute of TAFE, CPA Australia, ARK, ‘The Performance Zone' for AITD. (Performance Zone, which is AITD's innovative audio CD series, features a range of interviews, discussions and presentations with leading training and development practitioners http://www.aitd.com.au/ ). Performance Zone Audio Presentation (MP3, 669KB) December 2004.

Margaret is the co-chair of the Going Virtual- The Future of Work conference held annually in Australia, and regularly presents papers and workshops at conferences.

Ron Aspin

Ron Aspin presents papers including the recent paper delivered in December 2005 Brisbane on 'Can Good Legislation be Over Regulation for Public Private Partnerships'. Earlier work includes:

Aspin, R. 2005 ‘Can good legislation be over regulation for public-private partnerships?' State of Australian Cities Conference, Brisbane , Nov 30-Dec 2

Aspin, R. 2005 ‘Public-private partnerships as one approach to affordable housing in the inner city: an overview' Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), National research symposia, Melbourne, June 15-17

Aspin, R., ‘Affordable Housing and the Place of the Church', BriefCACE , no. 15, November 2004

Aspin, R., ‘Public-Private Partnerships and Effective Risk Management for Local Government', presented to the 19th EAROPH World Planning and Housing Congress and Australian National Housing Conference, 2004

Aspin, R. 2004 ‘Methodological issues in case studies involving public-private partnerships' Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), National research symposia, Melbourne, July 21-23 2004

Aspin, R. 2004 ‘Public-private partnerships as a solution to housing affordability problems: a case study of inner urban development', Swinburne Institute for Social Research Colloquia, June 11 2004

Aspin, R. (with D. Hayward ), ‘Contracting for Globalisation', Dissent , no. 6, 2001

Research Reports and Monographs to which Ronald Aspin made significant contributions through demographics analysis, sampling methodology, questionnaire design and/or statistical analysis.

Hayward , D., ‘The Public Good and the Public Sector: What Role for the Private Sector', Dissent, Autumn 2002

Salvaris, M. and Wolcott, I., Community participation and planning in Geelong , Community Indicators and Local Democracy Project, Swinburne Institute for Social Research, 2002

Salvaris, M. and Wolcott, I., Community participation and planning in Moreland , Community Indicators and Local Democracy Project, Swinburne Institute for Social Research, 2002

Salvaris, M., Neighbourhood renewal community survey covering four areas in the LaTrobe Valley and Wendouree West, Department of Human Services, 2002

Burke, T., Lone parents, social wellbeing and housing assistance: positioning paper , Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Melbourne, 2001

Betts, K., Hayward , D. and Garnham, N., Quantitative Analysis in the Social Sciences: An Introduction , Tertiary Press, Melbourne , 2001

We link to our various papers in our Tips & Tricks page.

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Professional Development services

We provide several professional development short courses which can be viewed on our seminars page.

We provide professional development for Learnscope teams, and other groups wishing to focus on flexible delivery and other aspects of education and training.

PD topics we have been asked to provide include 'How to Evaluate Courses', 'How to Win Grants and Tenders', 'Understanding Learner Needs', 'Understanding the National Training System', 'AQTF', 'MS Word', 'MS Excel', 'Digital Story Telling'.

Our extensive experience with education and training ensures we can provide excellent professional development in a broad range of areas to fit your needs.

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Education and training management services

There are times when your training manager is not available, or has resigned but you have not been able to locate the right candidate for the job. In this case you still need to keep your programs running and running well.

You may be an RTO and need to ensure your registration is not at risk because staff do not understand nationally accredited training or the AQTF. You may be running terrific programs but find that when you promote an internal staff member to an acting position, the programs seem to slip. Why is that? It is because educational management requires skill and long term experience. It cannot be developed over night.

In this case we come to the rescue! We have provided interim education and training management services to several organisations. Usually it is just one month, or a few days a week over more months while you take your time finding the right person for the job.

How does it work? We come to you and work in your setting. We manage the teams and the processes and often leave you with new ideas and a framework to help you move to the next stage of your business. After your manager returns or the new manager arrives, we can provide ongoing support or mentoring if you wish.

Key contact for this work is Margaret Aspin.

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Tender writing services

We write grant and tender applications. We develop cold bids to take to government departments and other funding bodies. Recent successful tenders and grant applications written for organisations were:

• Three ReFraming the Future tenders for TFIA BS, Hiltons Fabrics and the Flooring Industry (Vic)
• Pharmacists as Partners in Training Strategies on Alcohol and Licit Substances for the PSA (Vic)
• ReFraming the Future for the PSA (Vic)
• TAFE frontiers case studies PSA (Vic)

Tenders take some time to prepare. Always call a consulant in early for the best result.

We also run a workshop on successful grant/tender submission writing.

Tender and Grants writing course.

The ability to write winning tenders and grants is critical for business in today’s competitive environment. Aspin has a one day workshop which is designed to be interactive, engaging and teach you the tools and techniques for successful grants and tender writing. Click here to download flyer.

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Project management of training programs

Project management requires skill and experience especially when involving a reference group, steering committee and various stakeholders. Managing projects to come in on time and in budget is not an easy task, so organisations often like to bring in an experienced project manager to help them through the process.

A recent example of this was the Pharmacists as Partners in Training Strategies on Alcohol and Licit Substances project October 2004 – June 2005. This complex project needed a very experienced project manager, and Margaret Aspin was able to provide this service.

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Research and evaluation services

Ron Aspin is a social researcher. Ron has worked on several projects plus works regularly with the Swinburne University Institute for Social Research. We provide research and evaluation services for training, and also often bring in an independent evaluator to work on projects. Our recommended evaluators are found on our Links page.

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eLearning and mLearning Services

If you have had a look around our web site you will see that eLearning and mobile learning using PDAs and Smart Phones etc is a major component of our work. We develop eLearning materials, provide administration services for eLearning platforms, and run professional development for trainers in a broad range of industries. We also work in consortia with other suppliers who can produce the types of multimedia that we can't.

We develop new course content for:

• WEB CT and TAFE VC
• Moodle
• Blackboard
• most other online learning management systems

We create training programs for companies needing to put their inductions, compliance training or procedures online in a learning program format.

Our staff have been developing online content for government, business, TAFE, private providers, and other registered training organisations since 1996.

Further details of this service can be obtained from Margaret Aspin on 0417 550 387 or via email at marasp@aspinonlineconsulting.com.au

Please feel free to ring to discuss your needs or to receive a no obligation quote.

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Development of online induction programs

We develop online induction programs for our industry clients. Online inductions have obvious benefits for our clients as they allow large numbers of staff to be inducted in a minimum amount of time. Our clients report they often get their new staff to complete the online induction at home before arriving for work. Then at work, there is a validation activity and the new staff member is off and running.

We often work in conjunction with a registered training organisation who deals directly with their client. For example in 2006 we have developed online induction programs for the John Holland Group in conjunction with their RTO 'The Malka Group', and for Champions IGA Supermarkets in conjunction with their RTO SGILS.

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