NSO/Ds can become a learning centre tenant or access advisory services
National Sporting Organisations (NSOs) and National Sporting Organisations for People with Disability (NSODs) can join the Learning Centre as subtenants and create a seamless experience for their learners by providing a fully branded one stop shop for learning, whether online, face to face or blended activities.
We are building best practice and powering the sector forward into quality L&D approaches by:
One of our key value propositions is aggregating and consolidating Australian Sports Commission, Sport Integrity Australia [including Play by the Rules] and NSO/NSOD content into one central location, creating:
An NSO/NSOD expresses interest in the Learning Centre. The Australian Sports Commission meets with the NSO/NSOD to understand their prioritised operational, financial and strategic objectives and build a personalised NSO/NSOD plan and timeline. Questions may include: who are your learners; which content is high priority; what content will be online vs face to face, how will Australian Sports Commission and Sport Integrity Australia common content be used; how will your NSO/NSOD learning centre provide benefits for all of your member organisations and how will it fit within operational and accreditation or competency frameworks.
NSOs/NSODs can set their learning centre up independently, or connect their learning centre to a membership, customer relationship management system, or competition management solution. An integrated approach may include single sign-on and data transfer through web services or API calls.
The Australian Sports Commission has done all the heavy lifting by creating a sector specific learning centre that meets common accreditation structures; handles national and member sporting organisational relationships; caters for blended learning activities; allows learners to make payments; and automates notifications and other administrative tasks, reducing administrative burden and manual handling.
Each NSO/NSOD can customise their learning centre to reflect their frameworks and objectives. NSOs/NSODs can also implement their organisational theme and brand across their learning centre, creating a similar look and feel across multiple digital platforms.
The Australian Sports Commission will drive leadership and collaboration across the sector and with each NSO/NSOD to establish strong learning outcomes for each key program area. Many organisations will be transitioning static documents or face to face activities into online learning experiences, or blended learning outcomes, which we encourage as we work together to deliver world class, best practice online learning experiences for the sector.
To express your interest and get started on your world class learning journey, contact the Learning Centre team at learninghelp@ausport.gov.au.
Focused on the future of learning and development
Athletics Australia, an early adopter of the new Australian Sport Learning Centre (Learning Centre), sees the long term value in joining a community that delivers best practice and quality learning and development approaches to support our whole sector. Adam Bishop, General Manager, Growth and Development at Athletics Australia explained why they committed to be one of the first organisations to join.
‘We bought into the philosophy – the whole approach to aggregating and sharing content across the sector. Athletics provides opportunities for fundamental movement and physical literacy skill development and so our education content can be useful and relevant for other sports and their coaches. We also wanted to create a seamless experience for our learners across online and face to face learning, so we jumped right in,’ Adam explained.
‘Due to the nature of athletics, with many events, we have a lot of content, so it was a bigger job than we anticipated,’ Adam said. Around 80 courses and close to 200 content modules were migrated to the Learning Centre for Athletics Australia – a large undertaking compared with other sports that have less than 10 courses to migrate. ‘There were some teething problems, but we expected that, being an early adopter. We’re ironing out the kinks and smoothing the way for other sports and have been supported along the way by the Australian Sports Commission team.’
‘It was a massive piece of work and we committed significant time and resources to the project, but we also received a lot of support from the Australian Sports Commissions Learning Centre team. We really appreciate the collaborative approach, the dedication and the responsiveness of the team. We were all focused on getting a positive outcome,’ Adam said. ‘I have nothing but positive things to say about the relationship and about the calibre of staff within the Learning Centre team. ‘In terms of cost, there was a one off payment to get set up, and an ongoing annual cost, which is comparable to what we were paying previously. We are comfortable with the cost because ultimately, we will have a better, more modern system, with greater functionality.’
‘We are enhancing the education we deliver and future proofing our learning and development system,’ said Adam. ‘Eventually, we hope to benefit from introducing functions such as single sign-on that the Australian Sports Commission is working with us on, further improving the user experience. ‘In future, we also see opportunities for application of the platform across staff induction, increased learning at national and state level and also down into clubs. ‘The more sports that join the Learning Centre, the greater the opportunity to collaborate across the sport sector and the greater cost savings for each sport, so we all benefit!’ Adam said.
Learning Centre key to Swimming Australia attracting more coaches
With a bold ambition to double the number of accredited coaches by 2025, Swimming Australia sees quality coach development as a critical part of growing the sport.
As an early adopter of the Australian Sports Commissions new Australian Sport Learning Centre (Learning Centre), Swimming Australia has put an immediate focus on enhancing the delivery of the online component of its Development Coaching Course.
In joining the Learning Centre, Swimming used the opportunity to restructure the content for their Development Coaching course to assist coaches to learn “anywhere, anytime”.
The online course now includes a mix of interactive activities and videos from experienced coaches that are mobile-friendly and is followed by a face-to-face workshop and practical assessment tasks. Swimming Australia’s General Manager of Coaching Development Graeme Hill said the Learning Centre allowed the course to be developed as a series of bite-sized modules that coaches could pick up and work on at times that suited them, providing a more personalised and flexible approach to learning. “We are committed to a blend of learning models,” Hill said. “We can have coaches learn content online and then apply and reinforce their learning in an interactive face-to-face workshop.”
The Development Coaching course is the entry level of the Swimming Australia National Coaching Framework, focussed on quality coaching that creates a strong foundation to support coaches as they begin their coaching journey. “It’s not just about vertical progression through the coaching pathway, we’re looking at creating coaching excellence at all levels through continuous horizontal development of coaches at each stage of the National Coaching Framework,” Hill said. “We have a focus on building future content which complements our core course and provides continuous development opportunities within each level, as well as opportunities to progress. The Learning Centre allows us to present a suggested learning catalogue to every learner. The Swimming Australia Learning Centre also houses the Masters Swimming Coach course and a range of short courses for technical officials, with plans to continue building on these resources.
An impressive feature of the new Learning Centre has allowed Swimming Australia to integrate learning material from Sport Integrity Australia, including Play By The Rules, along with the Australian Sports Commissions popular Community Coaching General Principles course. Future Australian Sports Commission content will also be available through the Learning Centre. The recent launch of the Australian Sports Commissions Director Education course, The Start Line, was also an attraction as “we’re keen to tap into quality education to support strong governance across the organisation,” Hill said.
The Australian Sports Commissions Learning Centre team praised Swimming Australia for its work in tailoring content to engage and guide their learners through the course’s interactive and mobile-friendly content. While the process of modifying and moving to the Learning Centre had initially seemed daunting, Hill said the Australian Sports Commission Learning Centre team had provided excellent support in migrating the updated content. “All the people we’ve dealt with enabled us to get where we wanted to,” Hill said. “We had almost zero interruptions with our learning systems and didn’t have to manage any downtime of our courses.” “It was a great experience… Swimming and the Australian Sports Commission working together to deliver an improved and modernised learning outcome.”