There is a strong policy push for the use of ICT for at least some aspects of Vocational Education and Training delivery. Programs such as the Australian Flexible Learning Framework have been operating for some years now and have provided funding for a range of projects to develop and implement delivery of VET through ICT and to provide professional development for staff.

Often delivery using ICT is supported by other methods ranging from individual students using ICT tools in a classroom supported by a teacher as part of multiple strategies, to 100% delivery through ICT. Much of VET delivery has been through the use of workbooks which encourage shallow learning and construct learning as individual cognition as opposed to learning being social, constructivist and collective. Given that funding and policies have provided opportunities for ICT development of interactive Web delivery it is time to ask if this has influenced changes in teaching and learning practices in VET learning environments. How are these ICT tools being used? How has delivery using ICT influenced teaching and learning practices in VET learning environments? Have there been changes in VET teachers’ conceptualisation of learning and teaching and therefore their pedagogies?

Research Questions:

What ICT tools are being used in VET learning environments? How has the use of these ICT influenced teaching and learning practices in VET learning environments?

For further details please contact: Helen Bound

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