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Report: The growing impact of technology on the RTO sector

Building on the learnings of last year’s report, fresh data and insights have been collected since November 2018 through 500 participants from VET service providers.

This annual survey underpinning this report is a joint project between Instructure Australia, the education software provider of Canvas Learning Management Platform, and Velg Training, Australia's leading provider of Vocational Education and Training (VET) professional development and consulting services.

This report studies how RTOs (that deliver training and assessment services to 4.2 million people each year in Australia) are using eLearning in pedagogy, adopting online learning, identifying emerging technologies, and other topics including staff professional development, competitive analysis, organisational and institutional planning.

Some key insights from the AVEAR Report include:

• 71% of organisations adopt a blended delivery of traditional and online learning, (consistent with the previous year’s result.)
• 46% of RTOs have either completely automated or have some level of integration between their online learning systems and their student management system (SMS).
• An extensive use of video is already happening in RTOs today (77%) and that 37% already have video as an integrated component of their LMS.

Michelle Weaver, CEO of Velg Training, said, "Velg Training have been involved in this process of gathering data as we believe it is important to identify trends for predicting future directions so we are better informed in how to support our members, particularly in the area of eLearning which is rapidly expanding amongst RTO offerings."

To read the full AVEAR 2018 report please download it here.

Date posted Aug 29, 2019