Historical approaches to data collection, data validation and reporting are changing across the VET landscape with the range of user needs, requirements and expectationsaccelerating in complexity and sophistication.Information is key to many domains in Australia’s VET sector, particularly as the need for high quality and timely consumer information grows. The Vocational Education and Training (VET) Data Streamlining initiative transforms current data collection processes by using centralised, state-of-the-art data exchange providing near real-time data capability between system stakeholders including RTOs, SMSs, STAs, NCVER, Commonwealth and many reference data providers. World-leading education and training needs to be supported by quality data, information and contemporary technology. Key points we will cover:

• The Changing VET Sector
• Current Needs and Opportunities
• Our Extended Proof of Concept (ePoC) Showcase - Near Real-Time Data Collection, Validation, Reporting & Analytics
• The Plan to Productionise
• Our Lessons Learnt so far

This presentation is about taking education and student’s employability to the next level - how do we prepare them for their career/job (other than the expected skills and knowledge they need to have as a baseline)?

• What employability is usually said to mean
• What employers are saying it really means
• How do we prepare students to really be employable?

Drawing on over 15 years experience developing serious games for universities throughout the world, Dale will examine:

• When to consider using games for education
• Benefits of games for education
• Best practice when developing and deploying games for learning
• Examples of how games developed here in Australia are being used by universities around the world.