AUSTRALIAN SUGAR INDUSTRY TRAINING LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

THROUGH FUNDING FROM Sugar Research Limited (SRL) and Sugar Research Australia (SRA), an Australian sugar industry Learning Management System (LMS) is being developed. The objective of the Australian Sugar Industry Training (ASIT) project is to provide an LMS to the Australian sugar industry that has a one-step login to access all of the sugar industry training material. The system also needs to be easy to navigate, while using a variety of genres to transfer knowledge. The LMS aims to create a learning pathway and environment that is enjoyable, informative and uses a variety of approaches to engage the learner, has knowledge that is accurate, using common industry terminology and visual displays to enhance learning and provides assessment that is varied, providing statistical feedback to the learner of their progress. The cost of the access per individual to the LMS training material needs to be affordable. It is planned that the LMS will become a major source of content training materials for Australian sugar industry containing SOTrain, (Supervisor and Operator Training), SRM (Sugar Research Modules), SRI (Sugar Research Institute) videos and new training materials as they are developed. Each module is planned to provide an online knowledge training tool and knowledge competency assessment system for the Australian sugar industry mapped to the FDF10 competencies from the Australian Government training website at Certificate III level. This paper describes the process used to select the LMS provider, key features of the LMS and how the features can be effectively used by the Australian sugar industry. It also discusses the capacity of the LMS to allow individual Australian sugar companies to develop their own material.