Workshops, Program, Mining Industry Skills Centre Annual Conference

Day One	About the Sessions
eLearning - Five Golden Rules facilitated by Terese Morgan and Toni-Maree Pettigrew from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework	‘e’-learning is just another form of ‘learning’. The ‘rules of engagement’ for effectiveness on the educational front-line are essentially the same, only the tools are different. Educators and learners have transitioned since the beginning of time by adapting to change and embedding good practice to achieve positive outcomes. This session will lead participants through the value of Planning to focus on People, Products, Platforms and Partnerships as essential ingredients in the development and implementation of effective ‘e-learning’.
Return on Expectation - Taming the Finance Guy facilitated by Deb Jones and Kellie Lister from the Mining Industry Skills Centre	How can a training department demonstrate they are providing the expected outcomes from their organisation’s training investment? What value is this investment is having on behaviour linked to production and safety? This challenge is faced many training professionals in the resources sector. Most commonly training is measured using reactive evaluations. This workshop will equip attendees with the necessary tools and steps to prove how you can influence, measure and analyse behaviour change resulting from training… not only ‘taming the finance guy’ but providing practical strategies to plan and implement for result driven training within the workplace.

Day Two	About the Sessions
Debriefing - Where the Real Learning Happens facilitated by Elyssebeth Leigh from FutureSearch	Any use of simulation with intentional learning outcomes will occur in three parts. The ‘briefing’ sets up the scene and introduces the rules and goals for the learners. At this point the trainer/facilitator is in complete charge. The second part is the ‘Action’ where participants put into practice their understanding of how to achieve the goal. At this time the trainer/facilitator has almost no control over anything! The third part is the ‘Debriefing’ and at this time the power for controlling and directing action and discussion is shared between participants and trainer/facilitator. ‘Where the real learning happens?’ is a question rather than a statement, because of the complexity of these power relationships, and the unique individuality of each learner may actually create personal insights quite independently of the trainer/facilitator’s intentions and hopes. This contribution will explore these issues from the perspective of both participant and trainer/facilitator inviting audience participation in exploring how to make the best possible use of all the learning potential in simulations.
Prior Knowledge - Mitigating the Hidden Dangers facilitated by Karen Becker from Queensland University of Technology	Regardless of whether you are training a cleanskin or someone who has been in the industry their entire working life, they all bring prior knowledge to the table. Some of this knowledge provides a rich and valuable resource to you as a trainer to draw on within the learning environment. However, in some cases, this knowledge may be preventing the trainees acquiring more or different knowledge. This workshop will provide you with practical strategies for identifying and addressing prior knowledge so that it can challenged and built upon to gain the maximum return from your training.