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Subject and Industry Specific Teaching with Digital Resources and Software (Level 2)

Strengthen your subject expertise by choosing high value digital PD and giving learners hands on access to the specialist software used in real workplaces.

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Course Description

This Level 2 Experimenting lesson focuses on how educators can use digital resources to keep their own subject/industry knowledge current and to design more authentic learning experiences. You will explore how to identify your professional development needs, evaluate online courses, webinars, TED Talks, podcasts and digital training materials, and avoid wasting time on low impact PD.

The lesson then shifts to investigating specialist software in your industry, including student/education versions and vendor provided resources, so you can introduce tools that mirror contemporary workplace practice and expectations.

Relevance for RTOs

Helps you maintain industry currency and vocational competence by engaging with current digital PD and industry standard software, supporting compliance with the Standards for RTOs 2025 and strengthening the authenticity of training and assessment.

Who Should Take This Course

VET trainers, assessors and designers who need to demonstrate industry currency and integrate specialist software into programs
School teachers and heads of department wanting to align digital resources and tools with specific learning areas or subjects
eLearning coordinators, digital learning leads and PD coordinators planning subject/industry specific capability development
Any educator wanting to be more intentional about online PD choices and the specialist tools they expose learners to

What You Will Learn

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

Analyse your own professional learning needs in relation to subject and industry changes.
Evaluate digital PD options (courses, webinars, podcasts, videos) for quality and relevance.
Select and trial specialist or industry standard software that aligns with authentic workplace tasks.
Identify student or education versions of software and plan how to use them in learning activities.
Share insights and resources from your PD and software trials with colleagues to build collective capacity.

Brought to you by...

This course has been brought to you by Digital Literacy Licence in partnership with VETQI.

Meet the instructor

Kerri Buttery

Kerri Buttery, the founder of VETNexus and Digital Literacy Licence, has worked in the Australian education sector for over 25 years. With a background as a Business and Technology teacher in Queensland schools,

Kerri is passionate about the use of technology in education and how this can be used to engage learners and streamline the role of the educator. With post-graduate university degrees in information technology and eLearning, Kerri has been positioned as an early adopter of artificial intelligence in education.

Kerri has presented at numerous conferences on the topic of generative AI and written courses specifically for teachers on how to make use of this technology in the classroom and beyond.

Patrick Jones - Course author

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