An investment in education will positively impact staff retention, capability and productivity - which ultimately affects the bottom line.
QUT employs a wide range of teaching and pedagogical methods in the design and delivery of its corporate education programs. These may include facilitated workshops, problem-based learning, case studies, simulations, team activities, action learning and web based e-learning. The over-riding principle is to maximise the transference of skills into the workplace.
Workplace Blended Learning
QUT is a leader in developing and delivering workplace blended learning, where education is combined with work experience to accelerate the movement from awareness through observable behaviour (knowledge and skill) to mastery.
Qualified adult learning practitioners (learning designers) work with Corporate Education and our clients to ensure we create a program that places primary importance on the engagement with authentic learning tasks most relevant to the workplace context.
Development Process
This team development process involves collaboration between the learning designer, the academic expert and the industry expert to develop appropriate learning objectives, and performance criteria based on engagement with real industry problems and challenges.
The content becomes a resource that is accessed in the context of the challenges and the levels of expected knowledge and skill required of the learners in the discipline area. The focus is not just on content/knowledge acquisition, but additionally on skills that will activate the knowledge in real settings.
Learning Techniques
Techniques can include participants bringing work projects into the course as the subject of their assignment (and coaching of the participant and their line supervisor), management games, simulations, theatre-based workshops, reflective journals, case studies and delivery using new technolgies (for example email, blogs, podcasts, audio and video streaming).