This course explores how to align your teaching with current industry practice through targeted professional development and the use of common workplace digital tools. You’ll learn how to plan and track your own CPD using online courses, webinars, conferences, peer groups and digital portfolios, and how to meet the basic tech requirements for engaging effectively in online PD.
You’ll then examine digital employability skills and common tools used across industries—such as email, word processing, spreadsheets, collaboration platforms and basic coding—and how to integrate them into learning activities, assignments and assessments. Case studies and practical activities help you connect subject content, industry expectations and learners’ digital capability.
Standards require that trainers maintain current industry skills and ensure training and assessment reflect workplace practice. This course supports that by showing how to plan, evidence and track CPD, and how to embed common digital tools and industry relevant technologies into delivery and assessment. It strengthens the link between training packages, industry expectations and the digital capabilities learners need to be job ready.
Who Should Take This Course
This course is ideal for: - VET trainers and assessors who must maintain industry currency and make digital tools visible in their units.
- Secondary teachers (especially in VET in schools, technologies, business, HPE, arts and applied learning) who want to connect their subjects to current industry practice.
- Educators in any sector who want a more systematic approach to CPD tracking, digital portfolios and evidence of professional learning.
- Heads of department, instructional leaders and PD coordinators who support staff with CPD planning and industry engagement.
By the end of this
lesson, you will be able to:
- Identify current industry expectations and trends relevant to your subject or qualification.
- Use digital tools and professional networks to keep your own industry knowledge up to date.
- Connect classroom or training activities to authentic workplace tasks and tools.
- Highlight and explicitly teach the employability skills embedded in your learning activities.
- Capture simple evidence of industry aligned learning for use in portfolios or reports.
Note: Access is granted for 3 months from the date of enrolment.
