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About Sarah Phillips

Sarah Phillips is currently the Director of Learning and Development at Pop Education. Sarah has had 12 years of experience in the VET sector with 11 of those years in Technology Education. In this time, Sarah has held positions in a range of settings across private, Learn Local and TAFE in the fields of eLearning and VET Assessment. Her experience includes 3 years working as the Victorian eLearning Coordinator and Content Services Advisor for the National VET eLearning strategy where she consulted on Strategic development with many industry and VET organisations. In her time, she has presented at over 30 conferences including ConVerge, VELG, VDC, Moodle Moot, ACPET, NCVER, ACFE and EduTECH, as well as many TAFE conferences across the country. Sarah’s teacher educator experience has seen her facilitate over 100 workshops. Sarah has worked with dozens of industry clients, and mentored several training organisations in her role as an ACFE eMentor. Sarah has also played a key internal role in 3 startup departments for online learning and specialises in the areas of assessment compliance, blended learning strategies, content development and pedagogical design.

Think twice before using multiple choice

2020-10-08T13:51:09+10:00April 12th, 2017|Assessment, Blog|

By Sarah Phillips Multiple choice is a favourite method for many organisations and the people employed to write their assessments, however there are a few things to consider when choosing multiple choice as your choice for collecting evidence which contributes to an assessment of a unit of competency. This article explains why using multiple choice can [...]

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The who and how of online course development

2020-10-08T13:51:19+10:00December 30th, 2016|Blog, Content development|

By Sarah Phillips Online course development – where to start? So you have decided to develop your own online course materials. Good for you! But before you commence, it is important to know what you need in order to achieve this successfully. There are a number of decisions your management team needs to make before you [...]

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Why do RTO’s struggle with compliance?

2020-10-08T14:18:39+10:00December 30th, 2016|Assessment, Blog|

By Sarah Phillips Yes, many RTOs are non-compliant! It is not uncommon for an RTO to be found non-compliant in what was previously Standard 15 of the Standards for NVR RTOs 2012 when experiencing an audit. Standard One now replaces much of what was this standard prior to 2015. In fact, from October 2013 to March [...]

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