Under the National VET Regulator, ASQA, it seems that AQTF will be known as "Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations"; and while the draft looks similar to the AQTF, there are changes!

The draft standards, also known as a "legislative instrument" will replace AQTF. The main change is probably the legal "status" of the document. The fact the new Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations, are part of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011, will provide ASQA the legal power the previous State Training Authorities (STAs) didn't have.

Some other interesting changes in the standards seem to be:

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If you ask 10 different trainers to define "virtual training," you will probably get 10 different responses. To one person it might be talking a self-paced e-learning course, and to another it might mean a Second Life meeting. Virtual training is a broad term with many different interpretations.

In some ways, it's like the word health. When you tell someone that you want to "get healthy," they might think you will be changing your eating habits. To someone else it might mean exercising, getting more sleep, or losing weight. Health is a multifaceted word. In reality, the full scope of the word health encompasses all aspects of a person's well-being: physical, social, emotional, and spiritual. Yet when people talk about their health, they are usually referring to just one specific aspect of it. It's the same with virtual training. Virtual training is multifaceted, and could mean many things depending upon its context and who is talking about it.

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