Abstract
Traditional models of learning for staff development are no longer meeting the needs of staff or of their organisations. This paper describes how one Staff Develapment Unit, the Rural Health Education & Research Centre at Tamworth, with few resources, has successfully negotiated the transformation from delivering adhoc, face-to-face teaching to a model encompassing competency based training, recognition of prior learning, workplace assessment and flexible delivery over a raft of nationally recognised certificate/diploma qualifications. The paper highlights issues faced by a rural Registered Training Organisation in delivering accredited qualifications to a wide range of health staff from a geographically dispersed area. The paper also reports on strategies, which were developed and trialled for teaching and learning at a distance, as well as recommendations for ongoing implementation and marketing of competency based qualifications, largely the end product of LearnScope funding from the Australian National Training Authority.
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