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= Smart Notes & Nuggets =

** Role in the project: Project Manager**

 * Email: **bronwyn.hannan@polytechnic.tas.edu.au
 * Phone: (03) 6336 2588**


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= CASE STUDY =

Project Profile:

 * What is the problem or opportunity you are addressing in this project? **

In the hospitality industry a great deal of information is presented verbally, for example taking orders from customers and instructions from supervisors and fellow staff. Learners enrolling in hospitality courses do not necessarily arrive with great skills in processing verbal information. Through using the smartpen, listening and verbal comprehension skills will be honed and this will have a direct benefit to employability and workplace performance. The smartpen becomes a key component of the learner and teacher toolkits.


 * Who are the learners and how will they benefit from this project? **

The learners a diverse blend of 16-19 year olds and adults with varying levels of learning experience. The cohort are disengaged youth, adults attempting to re-enter the work force using the Polytechnic as a vehicle and also long-term unemployed.

A diverse mix of adult learners, long tern unemployed, 16-19 yp and mature aged that may have been out of the workforce and formal learning for some time..

This use of technology will enable the learners to reinforce the learning in a passive way, without the feeling of embarrassment by asking for the teacher to repeat the information. Because the nature of the hospitality and cookery industry is very technical the technology will enhance the learning experience.

The units are currently being delivered using facilitator led practical and theory methodology. It is reliant on learners recording notes and reading text rich information.
 * How are you currently delivering this training? (ie prior to the project) **


 * Describe how the innovation you are embedding through the project will change this delivery **

It will enable the RTO to address some of the barriers in learning in a creative way. Demonstrating that the use in technology doesn?t only make learning easier, it allows learners to drive a self directed approach. In addition this project will test the use of elearning technology that is largely non-computer reliant.

The hospitality and tourism industries will be the beneficiaries of a higher volume of competent potential staff to draw from. Having a better skilled knowledgeable labour force drives productivity and aids retention.


 * Please list at least 5 key words (comma separated) that people can use to find your project (more the better) **

H ﻿ ospitality, smart pens, cookery, food and beverage, low literacy