About Us

Eduworks Resources is part of the RTO Advice Group Family.

Our story begins in 2009. RTO Advice Group was established with the aim to assist RTOs to manage their business and compliance needs more efficiently.

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Our Story

 

Eduworks Resources is part of the RTO Advice Group Family. Our story begins in 2009. RTO Advice Group was established with the aim to assist RTOs to manage their business and compliance needs more efficiently. With our industry experience we helped all our RTO clients get through their audits successfully. This helped with our long-term aim to support our clients to grow as leaders in their course delivery areas.

There is no growth without challenge! Typically, RTOs that we worked with struggled to acquire high-quality and easy-to-use assessment material. Their resources were not tailored to their course areas and delivery contexts. Another challenge is that instructional writing, editing, and desktop publishing for vocational education and training are highly specialised skill sets. Skill sets that most RTOs do not have access to or may be unable to afford. Therefore, a lack of quality resources could lead to poor educational experiences and hinder auditing success.

We refused to send our clients to audit with resources that could result in non-compliances. So, we began spending considerable time consulting, researching, writing, developing, and adapting to provide our clients with high-quality resources that they could depend on. 

In 2010 Eduworks Resources was established to promote the range of products and services we had developed. Since then we have been developing high quality ready-to-use and customisable training and assessment resources for RTOs across the country. Eduworks Resources is loved by RTOs around Australia and has a reputation among many for providing the best resources available on the market.

Our Team

 

Our Eduworks Resources team is a collection of industry specialists with years of experience in RTOs, the VET sector, education, training & assessment, and educational publishing. We work and collaborate together to design high quality resources. We’re passionate about ensuring everything we create is compliant and engaging.

Shashi Hodge

Chief Executive Officer

About Shashi

Shashi started her career in the VET sector in 2001 by helping to build an award-winning RTO with multi-jurisdictional presence across Australia, where Shashi was responsible for overseeing the RTO’s operations across three interstate offices.

During her career, Shashi has held roles such as National Operations Manager, Compliance Manager and Industry Based Learning Manager in RTOs before she established RTO Advice Group with Jacqui Hodge in 2009.

Since 2009, Shashi has worked with a wide range of clients, setting up RTOs, working with RTOs on their operations, quality systems, best practice delivery and staffing requirements, as well as conducting internal audits for RTOs. Shashi has also been an auditor, conducting registration and compliance audits for Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority (VRQA). Shashi is the driving force behind Eduworks Resources, a well-respected resource division of RTO Advice Group, that develops high quality resources for more than 10 different Training Packages, including Business Services and Financial Services. In 2013, Shashi also set up and registered Training Partners Australia, trading as RTO Leadership Institute, an RTO that now focuses on delivering high quality programs for the VET sector.

Shashi is the CEO of Eduworks Resources and RTO Advice Group and oversees the day to day effective running of the company.

Kate Laferlita

Head of Program Design and Quality

About Kate

Kate is a VET professional who holds the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. Kate worked for several years in the early childhood education and care industry, before moving into vocational education and training.

Kate has experience working in roles such as trainer/assessor, vocational placement coordinator, career consultant and instructional designer. Kate’s passion for developing practical learning and assessment resources over the past eight years has led to her moving into the role of Resource Development Manager here at Eduworks, where she is responsible for managing the team and overseeing the development, quality and timely completion of all projects.

Brooke LoGiudice

Head of Consulting

About Brooke

Brooke began her career in the VET Sector 16 years ago as co-owner and managing director of Institute of Counselling & Community Studies where she oversaw and managed all of the day to day operations within the RTO. From compliance, HR/Staffing, timetabling, advertising and marketing and business development Brooke has done it all. Since selling the RTO in 2010 Brooke has gone on to work as the RTO General Manager for various RTOs around Melbourne. Brooke started at RTO Advice Group as a contract consultant in 2018 working with both our RLI team and RTO Advice team and has since become a full time staff member in January of 2020.

Brooke now works as one of our Quality Consultants supporting clients with RTO Set Up, Internal Audits and Health Checks, Compliance Management, Policy & Procedure Review, Addition to scope, Audit rectifications, Resource Development, TAS development and general consulting requirements.

Brooke holds the TAE40116 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, TAE50216 Diploma of Training Design and Development and the TAE50116 Diploma of Vocational Education and Training.

Natalie Hodge

Manager of UX & Digital Learning

About Natalie

Natalie has been working in the VET sector for over 7 years. In her time working in the VET sector she has held various roles including student services, marketing and various management positions. During her time with us Natalie has worked as Client Services Coordinator, Marketing Assistant and is now the Operations Manager and now is the manger of User Experience and Digital Learning. During her time with RTO Advice Group Natalie has developed a great understanding of the VET industry, RTO Learning and Assessment practices and Learning Management Systems Canvas, Moodle and EduworksLMS.

Natalie prides herself on having intimate knowledge of each and every product offered across all divisions and being able to answer any questions clients thrown at her.

Natalie is passionate about quality education and training practices within the VET sector and providing our clients with the best possible service and current knowledge and practices.

Alana Coleman

Manager of Design and Development

About Alana

Alana has been working in RTOs for 15 years, with a background in the sport, fitness and health area. In her roles as Learning and Development Coordinator, Academic Coordinator and Head of Fitness, she has developed training tools and resources for a variety of learning platforms in the ever-changing dynamic of adult education and School Based Training. Alana’s passion is for helping others, so creating material that trainers and learners find engaging, interesting and educational is always her main priority.

Additionally, Alana holds a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, Certificate III & IV in Fitness and Certificate III in Business. This helps her in understanding the qualifications that Eduworks Resources supports as Alana joins the Learning Design Project Team.

Sarah Riley

Manager of Learning Design

About Sarah

Sarah has a Bachelor of Education and a Masters Degree in Educational Leadership and Management from The University of Sydney. In her experience she has worked as a Classroom Teacher, Instructional Design Leader and Assistant Principal. Sarah’s areas of speciality are curriculum, data and assessment. In her previous roles, she has worked with internal and external stakeholders to develop policies and procedures to improve student outcomes and improve school culture. Sarah is currently the Manger of Learning Design at Eduworks.

Hamidah Zariwala

Manager of Quality Review

About Hamidah

Our Client Relationship Team

The Eduworks Resources Team is supported by our friendly Client Relationship Team.

Stacey Peel

Client Relationship Manager

About Stacey

Stacey began her career working for 17 years in the Early Childhood Education and Care industry. During this time she spent 10 years working in local government supporting services to meet the industry standards and supporting students with their studies.

Stacey worked extensively with key stakeholders developing relationships with businesses in the local community. She prides herself on establishing long-lasting partnerships where clients can feel confident and reassured that she understands the client’s needs and provides current knowledge to support clients through each decision.

Maged Hegazy

Business Development Manager

About Maged

Maged brings twenty years of experience leading EdTech business, SaaS sales, and business development strategies in different countries through direct sales and business partners. He is a results-driven person who develops long-term relationships using MEDDPICC, consultative selling and Challenger sale methodologies. Maged builds and maintains strong relationships with his clients through selling to CxO suite by proposing state-of-the-art technologies in a successful and complex sales cycle.

 

Maged retains a diverse knowledge of various job functions within the public sector and higher education in the software industry across Europe, the Middle East and Australia. also, he is passionate about travelling (25 countries so far), sports (Gym, swimming and squash), and loves helping people grow their businesses with innovations and new ideas.

Tiana Laferlita

Administration Officer

Our Consulting Team

The Eduworks Resources Team is supported by our friendly RTO Advice Group Consultants.

Brooke LoGiudice

Head of Consulting

About Brooke

Brooke began her career in the VET Sector 16 years ago as co-owner and managing director of Institute of Counselling & Community Studies where she oversaw and managed all of the day to day operations within the RTO. From compliance, HR/Staffing, timetabling, advertising and marketing and business development Brooke has done it all. Since selling the RTO in 2010 Brooke has gone on to work as the RTO General Manager for various RTOs around Melbourne. Brooke started at RTO Advice Group as a contract consultant in 2018 working with both our RLI team and RTO Advice team and has since become a full time staff member in January of 2020.

Brooke now works as one of our Quality Consultants supporting clients with RTO Set Up, Internal Audits and Health Checks, Compliance Management, Policy & Procedure Review, Addition to scope, Audit rectifications, Resource Development, TAS development and general consulting requirements.

Brooke holds the TAE40116 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, TAE50216 Diploma of Training Design and Development and the TAE50116 Diploma of Vocational Education and Training.

Emily Hodge

Quality Consultant

About Emily

Emily has been working in RTO compliance and administration for over
12 years.  Emily has worked in a variety of roles in the VET industry, from student services, project and management support, through to systems development, sales and marketing. 

Emily worked as our Lead Quality Consultant for a number of years and continues to work with us as a Quality Consultant, specialising in helping organisations achieve and maintain ASQA registration, maintaining and developing our internal systems.  Emily has an in-depth understanding of the compliance, business and operational needs of RTOs.  

Tayyaba Sultana

Consultanting Support Officer

About Tayyaba

Tayyaba began her career in the VET sector in 2014 as a Student Support Officer and progressed to become the Compliance  Support Officer. In 2017, she was recruited as Compliance Officer for another RTO.  Through her career, Tayyaba has participated in compliance  audits against the Standards for RTOs 2015, funding audits, registration and re-registration audits, and has hands  on expertise in audit rectifications. She also has experience of working as a Trainer and Assessor in the VET sector.

Tayyaba  currently works as one of our Consultant Support Officers assisting our team of consultants with RTO Set Ups, Addition to Scope, TAS development, Quality  Reviews, QMS and other general consulting requirements.   

Tayyaba  holds a Master’s Degree in Professional Accounting, the TAE40116 – Certificate  IV in Training and Assessment, CHC50113 – Diploma of ECEC, CHC30113  – Certificate III in ECEC, CHC40213 – Certificate IV in Education  Support and CHC43115 – Certificate IV in Disability.

Kylie Williamson

Quality Consultant

About Kylie

Kylie began her career as a workplace trainer, providing  training and support to clients in Microsoft Office. After an extended break,  Kylie returned to the RTO sector and has been working in the VET sector ever since.

Kylie has over 10 years experience in RTO  compliance and administration and is passionate about supporting RTO’s to build and maintain compliant practices.

Kylie has extensive knowledge in the day to day running of  an RTO including administration of student management systems, identifying  areas for continuous improvement, audits, applying for scope, and reporting  functions.

Kylie currently works as one of our Consultant Support  Officers assisting our team of consultants with RTO Set Ups, Addition to Scope, TAS development, Quality Reviews, QMS and other general consulting.

Our Expertise

 

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We develop flexible training and assessment resources that cater to a wide range of student needs.

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Our resources are valid and holistic, and focus on workplace skills.

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Our directors have over 27 years of combined RTO management experience, including designing and developing quality management systems, offering consultancy and conducting audits for the VRQA.

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Our team has extensive industry experience, including working for educational publishers in writing, editorial and desktop publishing roles, as well as working with RTOs, learners and trainers/assessors.

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We have a commitment to continuously improve our products, and actively seek and take on board feedback received from our clients.

Our Resources

 

Learner Guides

Learner Guides

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Assessment Tools

Assessment Tools

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eLearning Resources

eLearning Resources

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RPL Kits

RPL Kits

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LLN Kits

LLN Kits

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PowerPoints Session Plans

PowerPoints & Session Plans

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Our Clients

 

Box Hill Institute
Berry Street
Max Therapy Institute
TLC
Centacare
Kirana
Breakthru
SIA
Milcom
ACST
SIBC
Nexus
Real e-training
Octec
AGC
SITS
Under the Hammer

"Ready to go!"

I think we have made a very good choice for using Eduworks materials and assessment tools. We found the materials are: Ready to go; Suitable for learners from different backgrounds, including international students; Highly connected to the Australian workplaces and industries. One thing I particularly like about Eduworks materials/assessments is that you have created an “actual Australian Business” with website, proper business structure, policies and procedures for learners to use as the case studies. This gives our learners the opportunities to learn in a more realistic environment, instead of learning real life businesses from a boring lecture in classroom!

Louie Bai, CEO, Sydney International Business College

"Confident that they are here for us"

Australian Global College has been working with Eduworks over the past 3 years, we are happy with their service and how they have helped us through our audits. We have created a rapport with Eduworks deeper than a resource supplier, we are confident that they are here for us to support us whenever we need them. Many thanks to Eduworks.

Australian Global College

"The best Diploma of Business resources in market"

We have done exhaustive research to find the best Diploma of Business resources in market. We found that Eduworks resources are best in the marketplace and our findings are that Eduworks resources meets our flexible resources needs for quality training and assessments better than any other resource providers. We recommend other RTOs to use Eduworks resources for their training, as they are compliant, easy to use; both by students and trainers, affordable and excellent support from Eduworks team. We look forward to a long and successful relationship with Eduworks.

Nexus Institute of Australia

"Our go to resources provider for our RTO"

Eduworks has become our go to resources provider for our RTO. I find the services reliable and the tools meet our needs. Tools are flexible, user friendly, meet the industry needs and can easily be adapted without spending exorbitant amount of time fixing them. The entire process from getting a quote to delivery of the resources is just so smooth and quick, thanks to Stacey who is our one-point contact for everything at Eduworks.

Anuraag, Training Manager, Step Into Training Services

"Commitment to compliance and their passion for quality"

TLC Training Solutions has been using Eduworks resources for the past 10 years and have never been waivered to try anything else. Why? Their resources are valid, industry relevant with a focus on workplace skills and suit the varying needs of our students. Everything we need as a registered training organisation to enable our trainers and assessors to deliver a quality product is provided. TLC’s resources have become one of our key selling points as an RTO and we have maintained continued compliance at various audits (ASQA and State Funded) thanks to the quality of our programs. This would not be possible without the right choice in resources and the guarantee of a team of professionals behind them who believe in their product and ensure it is always evolving to meet RTO, industry and student needs. That product and team is found at Eduworks. TLC is forever grateful for their commitment to compliance and their passion for quality and we look forward to the next 10 years.

Teena SapwellDirector, TLC Training Solutions

"The communication throughout the process was excellent"

I was recommended Eduworks by a colleague and while I was initially reluctant to hand over the responsibility of developing training and assessment resources for our new training package, time and sourcing the expertise was an issue. Eduworks certainly stepped up and delivered, the materials were spot on and the communication throughout the process was excellent. Not only was the material of exceptional quality and fully compliant, it was delivered quickly and at a cost that would have been much less than I could have produced internally. I would certainly recommend Eduworks to any RTO small or large, that has the need to develop or review their training and assessment resources.

Jamie HammondCEO, Real E-training

"Gave us a bit of a head start on some of our competitors"

We chose Eduworks to accommodate our resources requirements for our training organisation following a new training package that was released. They were one of the few companies that could commit to having the new resources available which gave us a bit of a head start on some of our competitors who had yet to be able to offer the new course. We have used the company previously and have found the level of customer service to be fantastic as well as interactive. Will continue to use them in the future.

Matthew Shalhoub, CEO, Under the Hammer

"Trainers are very impressed"

We have recently purchased from Eduworks for Early Childhood, School Age Education and Care and Education support.

The communication from Eduworks has been amazing with ongoing emails and phone calls. The company has always replied on time with outstanding positive communication.

The students are finding the course work easy to follow and are very happy with the resources especially the access to the ‘Little.Ly Early Learning Centre’, this is proving to be a beneficial tool for trainers and students

The trainers are very impressed with the marking guides and session plans, which are written well and in-depth with easy to follow mapping.

Well done to Eduworks for the RPL process for each unit, these have been written well.

The clustered units that we have just delivered have been received with positive feedback from our trainers.

We look forward to delivering the next two courses and seeing what other courses we may purchase from Eduworks in the future

Nina Barca, Faculty Coordinator, Bedford College

"Thorough, high quality, easy to use"

After being referred to several resources developers from my audit consultants, Eduworks was a clear standout for high-quality products. My trainers have found the resources to be thorough, high quality, easy to use and we have received very positive feedback from our learners who use them.

Marcus Sellen, CEO, Hader Institute

"Intentionally designed for the learner experience"

UP Skills and Training chose to use Eduworks Resources for our RTO with their reputation for quality, compliant and comprehensive resources.

The flexible and bundled options made it easy to meet our blended delivery needs through one provider. The resources are beautifully designed, however more importantly in Eduworks Resources we have found a suite of training and assessment materials intentionally designed for the learner experience, learning outcomes and compliance.

Some of our courses purchased through Eduworks include a supplementary online simulated environment, allowing students to reinforce and practise their knowledge and skills in a real workplace setting with case studies and scenarios. Choosing Eduworks Resources gives us confidence in holistic and customisable materials as we train, empower and equip our students for the workplace.

Liz Raymer, Program Manager, Up Skills and Training

"In depth, industry relevant and compliant"

I have found Eduworks have provided us with a product that is in depth, industry relevant and compliant.  Trainers have access to training material for both classroom and external delivery as well as a thorough Marking Guide.

Having a simulated website such as Little.lys ELC, ACORN College and CBSA helps our students navigate through their assessment and access documents that are sometimes challenging to gain whilst at the workplace.

The team at Eduworks are always quick to respond to any questions and suggestions given.

Australian Child Care Career Options 

Looking for quality, ready-to-use & customisable RTO Resources?

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