National showcase for Remotely Possible

A Bunbury-based training business at the cutting edge of mobile learning will take its newly-developed program to a Melbourne showcase this week.

JSW Training and Community Services will showcase its Remotely Possible mLearning project at the ELearning for Participation and Skills Conference in Melbourne on Thursday.

Designed and developed by JSW designer Julie Rick, Remotely Possible allows participants to complete an accredited Certificate II with the option for a Certificate III in General Education for Adults through an iPad.

Mrs Rick said she was “mega-excited” about the opportunity to show off her creation at the conference next week.

“I can’t believe that in an organisation down here in Bunbury, we have been allowed to and been able to create mLearning, which is pioneering because it’s the way of the future and the way kids are going to learn eventually,” she said.

“There’s so much more that’s available to them and the fact it’s all paperless as well is even better.”

JSW chief executive Posy Barnes said Remotely Possible allowed participants to complete lessons and activities anywhere there was a wireless capability.

“If you get your mind around it, the student is not sitting in front of a teacher with a blackboard,” she said.

“They’re sitting in front of an iPad and then they’ve got the ability through the iPad to contact the trainer if they need any further information or assistance.”

Ms Barnes said the impact of the Remotely Possible mLearning program would reach across the country and it was made possible by the National VET E-learning Strategy through Australian Government funding.

“We’re just a little organisation in Bunbury and we’re at the cutting edge of this stuff,” she said.

Mrs Rick said it was an honour to be asked to present her program in Melbourne.

“Not only are we bringing adult learning to a national level from our own little part of the world, it’s on a completely different level because there’s so many more engaging things involved with this course than class-based lessons,” she said.