October+VET

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ACT October VET Penny Neuendorf Centre of Health, Community and Wellbeing and Education Excellence Title: **Does tailoring scenarios to learners’ needs work in a virtual environment?** Abstract This presentation will be around preliminary data analysis of //Does tailoring scenarios to learners’ needs work in a virtual environment?// This research is being conducted as part of my Masters in Online Learning (USQ) and is being performed in conjunction with the trailing of Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) virtual world project, //Virtual Worlds in Health Education//. The funding for this project is part of the //Targeting Skills Needs// in Regions (TSNR) initiative and is funded by the [|//Council of Australian Governments//] (COAG).  This aims of research are to help to construct and define the framework for virtual world scenario building and to validate the use of virtual worlds as part of a blended learning approach to teaching communication skills. The research focuses around three different learning groups: Indigenous students (Community services and Health areas), Community Services students and Allied Health Assistant students. Scenarios have been tailored for each group based on advice from industry experts from the Project Reference Group.