Julie White

1. Agricultural College the rural sector-
Skills Recognition for
2 Campuses-Hunternear you…
coming to a screen
And Riverina Hunter campus is a large
Well right here, today commercial farm

2. ➠ Full time residential students-youth market
➠ Trainees
➠ External students-online
➠ Short courses
➠ Skills recognition
Approx 450 graduates per year
4000 short course participants

3. Agriculture in Australia does not have
a strong culture of training
High level of skills and knowledge
acquired on the job.
Enter
or

4. We have been doing Our approach:
skills recognition Skills recognition is
through an done the candidate
since 1996. college staff
It is viewed as the for most adult education.
We go to the This comes from
candidate & have the view that
. adults are not
(Freire, 1996).

5. ➠Pre interview work
➠ On site interview at place of work
➠ Post interview

6. We have embraced different technology to
improve the interview process
Gradually moved from paper based to digital
presented in an .
No more
hard copy
files
The is stored on a shared,
password protected drive accessible by the
validators and principal.

7. So lets go back in time…
In the beginning,
interviews were
.
Evidence was
collected, taken
back to the office to
copy, originals
returned in the mail.

8. Then we got a
.
Farmers were
impressed!!
Written notes
were taken
A digital camera was used to take a photo of
the candidate

9. Some bright
spark suggested
a scanner
instead of the
copier.
Farmers were
even more
impressed!!
Notes were taken
on a laptop

10. Along came
.
Farmers were
stunned!!

11. We started to use
the to
take photos of
evidence.
No more copier OR
scanner
Start of the digital age
Life was never the
same again

12. Computer got
more high tech.
Mini laptop with
wireless key
board.
Notes recorded
on the go and
digital photos
added post
interview

13. Then came
the .
Bye bye
camera.
The farmers
This is where were
we are today speechless

14. Paper case
Both are time consuming to collate.
The digital case takes more time in the
interview as photos are labeled as they
go using iPad apps.
Digital case

15. Candidates photo Declarations
Summary info Farm description
CV & quals Photo ID
Enrolment form Unit information & evidence in each folder

16. The e-portfolio created iPad Photos tagged PDF forms are used
by College staff NOT the during the interview & during the interview &
candidate added to the case added to the case
Case is completed & e-portfolio is created using Adobe Acrobat Professional X
It is put on a common Validators use a digital
Validators are notified
drive (on a server) and is signature to approve &
that the case is ready
password protected principal is notified
Principal reviews & approves with digital signature

17. • Collecting everything
digitally & then printing
it!
• E-portfolios was the
logical next step
• It can move between
assessors from their
desktop
• We can give the
candidate a copy of the
completed case

18. Pros Cons
• No printing & storage • Significant investment in
• Ease of movement new technology & staff
between validators development
• Candidate receives a copy • Workplace interview
• Ability to use other forms takes longer
of evidence-video & audio • Risk of losing data

19. • Everyone still learning & getting used to the
idea
• No major tech failures
• Jury’s out on whether it saves time

20. Skills Recognition for
the rural sector-
coming to a screen
near you…
Thank you