On 16 October 2019 the VEDT team was awarded Platinum Winner in two award categories at the LearnX awards, including “Best Talent – Learning Design Team” and “Best Learning Model – Online”. Elissa Mackenzie, Jack Dunstan, Andrew Newhouse, Haley Gunn and Nicky Callinan attended the evening to accept the awards on behalf of the team. VEDT was also recognised as a finalist for “Best Learning & Development Project – Compliance”. LearnX celebrates learning design through industry recognition and conferences. The awards recognise the work of individuals, teams and organisations that delivers positive impacts in learning projects in various industry sectors. Other winners include such major corporations and universities as Victoria Univeristy, Bupa, CSIRO and QBE. The VEDT team had also been awarded Platinum winner for “Best Talent” last year. This year, they shared the award with the RMIT Creds team. It was exciting to see the work of the two teams recognised amongst other large and successful corporations. In particular, it was great to see senior multimedia designer, Nicky Callinan recognised for her original artwork on the ‘Make a Presentation’ unit. The VEDT team have worked hard to produce generic units of competency developed from specific courses to be […]
Joining the VEDT as an RMIT student: Riley
Riley is in her first year of a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) at RMIT in Melbourne. One of the first things I realised after joining the Vocational Education Design Team (VEDT) was that I didn’t have any corporate clothes. I had to raid my mother’s wardrobe for a nice blazer, and spent that weekend shopping for anything remotely presentable in a corporate environment. My mum keeps referring to this as ‘proper job’, and perhaps in comparison to my previous positions in customer service it is. I’m earning double what I used to – without suffering the torture of fast food customers – and getting discounts on coffee! Working at RMIT is like watching how a movie gets made. It’s insider access that feels weird and slightly out of place, and has completely turned my perspective of higher education upside down. Since starting my position as a student course builder, I’ve glimpsed into the admin-laden process of how each course is built. The constant emails back and forth, questions posed in forums and tid-bit advice on grammar that seems too complicated and therefore easier just to ignore. As an RMIT student I use Canvas a lot, and I’ve taken for granted the […]
