Polytechnic+Strategic+Plan


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** Strategic Plan ** 2011–2012 || == Opportunities for digital technnologies and services to meet highlighted needs. ==

Possible approaches in learning, teaching & assessment using ICT.
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 * =Introduction from the General Manager=

After two years of operation, the Tasmanian Polytechnic has already significantly improved the study options for Tasmanian post-year 10 learners. This has been achieved through the delivery of more than 300 nationally accredited vocational qualifications, delivered to more than students in 2010 at one of our 13 campuses across the State.

The Polytechnic is charged with two primary responsibilities. The first is to increase the number of Tasmanians accessing post-year 10 training opportunities and the second is to increase the number of Tasmanians achieving a Certificate III or higher qualification. Our success in meeting these goals will ensure Tasmanians receive the education and training to enable them to be productive in the workplace and for our businesses to be more competitive in their respective industries.

During the past two years, the Polytechnic has focused on improving access to our courses and services, particularly in rural and remote communities. As part of this goal, we have participated in the development of six new trade training centres, established in rural and remote communities, to provide trade and other training opportunities in local rural communities. Our rural and remote team works closely with schools and industry within these communities to maximise training opportunities for the community as a whole.

Our students continued to receive widespread recognition for their accomplishments with three graphic design students receiving Notable Entries in the nationally run DG Student Design Competition for 2010, a record 13 finalists in the Tasmanian Training Awards and one finalist in the National Training Awards.

As the Tasmanian Polytechnic integrates with the Department of Education in 2011, the organisation will continue to focus on delivering quality vocational education training opportunities for Tasmanians within the Post Year 10 environment. We will achieve this by working collaboratively with Colleges, District Schools, industry and key stakeholders. || Improve online access and options for flexible and blended learning.

ICT to support quality assurance in learning, teaching and assessment.

Collaboration with key ICT, e-learning and flexible learning colleagues and professionals.

Broadband and NBN affordances and mobile internet. ||
 * = Our strategic focus =

Our vision
Our learners achieve more productive and fulfilling lives as a result of their Polytechnic education experience.

Our mission
To provide learners with an applied education experience to gain the qualifications and skills they need to be productive in the workforce, continue with learning and contribute positively to the community. || New media literacies.

Digital citizenship.

Participative media. ||
 * = Our values =


 * Learner-centred **
 * Make the learning, support and personal development needs of learners our priority.
 * Value, understand and support each learner as an individual.
 * Welcome and encourage learners of all ages, backgrounds and origins . || ICT support for learners - ICT Student Helpdesk; online help.

Student voice.

Engaging online spaces.

Adult learners. ||
 * **Connected **
 * To our learners, their families and communities – locally, nationally and globally.
 * To the needs of employers, business and industry.
 * To other service providers as partners in learning and education. || Open and closed ICT connectivity and access to/from campus, home, workplace - local to global.

Open education resources, open education consortium.

Balancing access and privacy/security issues for (near) adult learners. ||
 * **Innovative **
 * Searching for, and open to, new and better ways of doing things.
 * Listening to others to broaden our own perspectives. || Collaborative and agile ICT development, perpetual beta, action research.

Innovation sandpits and online creative hubs.

Participative media, professional/personl learning networks. ||
 * **Resourceful **
 * Developing and delivering learning experiences that challenge and stretch learners.
 * Finding practical solutions to problems. || Self-directed learning, problem-based learning, service learning, global challenges.

Massively open online collaboration, gamification, crowd-sourcing. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Accountable **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Doing what we say we’ll do.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Managing risk.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Delivering results and measuring success.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Being financially accountable.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In our staff, our programs and our facilities. || ICT analytics, tracking, reporting.

Disaster recovery planning for online services.

Policy, guidelines and support for online services. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Excellence **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In our staff, our programs and our facilities. || Online reputation ||
 * =What is the Tasmanian Polytechnic=

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Tasmanian Polytechnic is an educational institution established under the Education and Training (Tasmanian Polytechnic) Act 2008. The Polytechnic is part of the Department of Education. The Polytechnic currently has over 650 permanent and fixed term staff plus casual and sessional staff on 13 campuses state-wide with most campuses being shared with the skills Institute.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Polytechnic provides education and training programs for students after year 10. Since it began operation in 2009, there has been considerable effort expended on developing Polytechnic learning focused on providing holistic education programs to young and mature-aged students alike, with programs and the appropriate support to ensure each student achieves their potential.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Polytechnic is a registered training organisation providing over 300 nationally recognised and endorsed vocational qualifications from Certificate I to Advanced Diploma together with a limited number of Tasmanian Qualifications Authority accredited subjects. Programs are targeted at young Tasmanians in year 11 and 12 preparing for a career or further study, and at individual older learners who are returning to, or are already participants in the workforce who are re-entering education, up skilling or preparing for a career change.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Work commenced in 2009 to establish partnerships with local communities. This year, the Polytechnic has arrangements in place with seven district and regional high schools. The transition of programs will continue to occur in other local communities through individually negotiated partnerships. In an average year, it is anticipated that the Polytechnic will enrol around 12,000 learners. || Online support.

Diversity of digital tools and services to suit individual students.

Holistic --> integrated online learning and social environments, blended learning, 4th Bottom Line initiatives || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">There are many challenges for our organisation over the period that this plan encompasses:
 * =Our Key Challenges 2010–2011=

Skills and workforce development, and workplace productivity:

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Engaging and retaining young and older people in applied education to achieve successful qualification outcomes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Engaging with industry, business, the community and government to ensure that the Polytechnic’s programs and services are workforce relevant, current and engaging for all cohorts.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Through engagement contributing to the achievement of Australia’s targets of:
 * halving the proportion of Australians aged 20–64 years without qualifications at Certificate III level or above between 2009 and 2020; and
 * Doubling the number of higher qualification completions (Diploma and Advanced Diplo <span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">ma) between 2009 and 2020.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">**The Tasmanian Skills Strategy** aspires to create an inclusive, fair, highly skilled and prosperous Tasmania where: //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Tasmanian Skills Strategy: Themes and Actions 2009–2012, Skills Tasmania //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> 2010. || Open and closed ICT connectivity and access.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Tasmanians have the skills to participate in a clever and connected community.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Together Tasmanians will overcome individual disadvantage and exclusion to increase participation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Providers will partner with industry to deliver skills through high quality services.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Employers will build workforce skills to innovate, invest and increase productivity.

Participative media.

Immersive learning and social environments - virtual campus and virtual learning commons. ||
 * ===Employment and the economy:===
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Ensuring a future skill development focus for alleviating skills shortages and ensuring a comprehensive response to re-skilling and career change demands as a result of unemployment and redundancy.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Developing dynamic employment strategies for meeting the job and career aspirations of younger people. || New digital technologies and services

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality... ||
 * ===Social inclusion and re-engaging the disengaged:===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Halving the gap for Indigenous learners’ literacy and numeracy by 2020.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Improving educational and employment outcomes for disadvantaged groups.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Increasing Tasmania’s school retention beyond Year 10 and improving Year 12 and equivalent completions with the aim of achieving the Council of Australian Government’s (COAG) target of 90% Year 12 attainment by 2015. || Serious games.

ePortfolios.

Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Virtual Learning Environments (VLE).

Gamification.

Virtual learning commons. ||
 * ===Competition and collaboration in the education and training market including globalisation:===


 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Identifying and developing partners and collaborators to ensure relevant, flexible, accessible and contemporary learning experiences which provide learners with a global perspective, while ensuring the achievement of financial and other contractual requirements.

This includ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> es building viable international programs and activities with schools, Tasmanian Colleges and the University of Tasmania. || Open and closed ICT connectivity and access.

Participative media.

Professional/personl learning networks.

Online commercialisation opportunities. ||
 * ===Technological change and new learning pedagogy:===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Capitalising on the learning opportunities, efficiencies, and innovation that information and communication technology and the roll out of the National Broadband Network enables, while effectively managing and developing other assets and infrastructure to continually improve learning experiences.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Ensuring that industry-leading technology and approaches, and industry-aligned learning environments are part of a relevant applied learning experience for all our learners. || Broadband and NBN opportunities - homes, communities and mobile.

Professional/personl learning networks.

Collaborative eLearning projects.

Innovation sandpits and online creative hubs. ||
 * ===Culture change:===
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Articulating the role of the Polytechnic, and supporting and providing opportunities for building staff and stakeholder understanding and commitment to growing the new organisation.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Innovatively developing the Polytechnic Learning Model. || Digital story telling.

Social media.

ICT to support the Polytechnic Learning Model. ||
 * ===Planning for the Polytechnic workforce:===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Including strategies for retaining older, experienced staff.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Ensuring the Polytechnic is an exciting and interesting place to work to attract and retain committed and engaged teachers.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Implementing strategies that reflect a valuing of diversity in the Polytechnic’s workforce; ensuring that Polytechnic staff are confident, well-prepared and skilled to meet the requirements of new ways of working and facilitating excellent applied learning and the demands of implementing a Polytechnic learning experience. || Action research agenda for ICTs and eLearning.

Leadership in national and global education communities.

Professional learning in digital technologies and services.

Links with research institutions. ||
 * =What is a Polytechnic Education?=

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Tasmanian Polytechnic’s Learning Model is holistic and builds learners’ capacity to ‘think, be and do’ in the Tasmanian and global community. The learning is characterised by being flexible, applied, connected and supported.

Polytechnic learning features:

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Applied learning which integrates education with work learning and practice resulting in meaningful nationally recognised, vocational qualifications from Certificate I through to Advanced Diploma, as well as the Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE) and essential skills for work and community life.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Technical and paraprofessional pathways from certificate to diploma, and articulation to and from higher education through career planning and development.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Supportive culture and environment recognising our learners’ individual needs and aspirations, and building pathways between schools, community, further education, and workplaces.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Industry and business sponsorship and partnerships with schools to assist learners, and provide real-world workplace learning environments.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Engagement of regional and rural learners in applied learning through regional high schools, partnerships with Community Knowledge Network LINCs and with community-based youth organisations and prisons, and through six regional trade training centres. || Digital technologies and services to support Polytechnic Learning Model.

Self-directed learning, problem-based learning, service learning, global challenges.

Massively open online collaboration, gamification, crowd-sourcing.

ePortfolios.

Global collaborative projects.

Engaging virtual campus. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Polytechnic’s learners are at the centre of all our plans and activities, and are therefore our key strategic focus area. In its planning processes the Tasmanian Polytechnic has identified six additional supporting Strategic Focus Areas whose plans and activities separately and together are the key influences on Polytechnic learners’ educational experience.
 * =Our Strategic Focus Areas=


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Our Products
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Our Brand and Reputation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Our People
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Our Infrastructure
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Our Relationships
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Our Governance, Finance and Sustainability
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Our learners || Student voice - in online and blended spaces. ||
 * = Strategic focus area 1: Our learners =

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Our learners are at the centre of everything we do. We must ensure that all our learners receive the highest quality learning experience.

Objectives

 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Know and understand our learners.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Learners disengaged from education and training, from rural and remote communities and from overseas are attracted and retained.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Learners with specific learning needs or barriers to engagement have access to appropriate learning programs to connect them successfully to learning.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Opportunities for rural and remote learners are comparable with those for urban learners.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Infrastructure is aligned with learner needs.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Effective provision of services contributes to a positive experience for all learners.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Polytechnic Learning is clearly defined and embedded.

Key Strategies

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Polytechnic learner support models that integrate with learning and teaching.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A learning and career development planning model.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A Polytechnic Learning Model which has an emphasis on learners having access to an engaging campus life.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A disability action plan that translates our commitment to achieving open and equitable access to vocational education and training.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Effective mechanisms for feedback and reporting on learners’ achievements.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A rural and remote learners’ strategy.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Celebrations of achievement, success and progress of all learners.

Strategic Measures

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Completion rates for course/program/year.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Profile of Polytechnic enrolments with respect to disadvantage measures reflects the Tasmanian population.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Overall learner satisfaction with their experience.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Advocacy (percentage of learners who strongly recommend Polytechnic as a place to go). || Online presence for learners.

Engaging full-service virtual campus.

Virtual infrastructure resourced.

Virtual learning commons.

Learner centred control of digital services.

Flexible and blended learning.

ePortfolios - lifelong and lifewide.

Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Virtual Learning Environments (VLE).

Student voice.

ICT support for learners.

Participative media.

Logging participation.

Broadband and NBN affordances and mobile internet. ||
 * = Strategic focus area 2: Our people =

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">An appropriately qualified, highly prepared, supported and motivated workforce working toward a common goal is essential if the Polytechnic Learning Model is to be implemented effectively.

Objectives

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Standards of teaching and learning facilitation that support the Polytechnic Learning Model and are aligned with teacher registration and Australian Qualifications Training Framework (AQTF)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Staff have access to development opportunities that support personal and professional growth, succession planning and industry currency.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Excellence is recognised.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Success and progress, short- and long-term, are celebrated.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A distinctive Polytechnic culture that is aligned to the Polytechnic’s vision, mission and values.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The diversity of the Polytechnic’s current and future workforce is valued.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">All teaching staff have TRB registration and staff have enrolled in the new Polytechnic Teacher Qualification

Key Strategies

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">An educational leadership program based on agreed leadership capabilities that provides for current leaders and assists with developing leadership capacity for the future.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A team development program that supports the formation of a work team culture within the Tasmanian Polytechnic.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">An effective and welcoming induction process for all Polytechnic staff.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The building and promoting of cross-Polytechnic relationships and networks.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A Polytechnic workforce development plan including a performance management and development approach.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The co-delivery (UTAS and Polytechnic) of a qualification that meets the requirements of the Teacher Registration Board
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A bi-annual workplace culture survey.

Strategic Measures

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Days per year professional learning.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Staff satisfaction with opportunities for, and quality of, professional learning.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Staff who strongly recommend Polytechnic as a place to work.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Staff retention rates.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Days in the workforce (return to industry).Number of Polytechnic staff enrolled in the Bachelor of Education (Applied Learning) || ePortfolios

Action research agenda.

Personal and professional learning networks.

Blended communities of practice. ||
 * == Strategic focus area 3: Our products ==

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To be successful, the Polytechnic must develop and deliver future-focused vocational and applied education programs that are engaging and accessible to learners and meet the needs of business, industry and the government.

Objectives
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A Polytechnic experience that:
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provides high quality skills and attributes for work and life.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Delivers flexible, applied, connected and supported (FACS) Learning.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Is relevant to the needs of Tasmanians, within a national and global context.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Meets Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF) conditions, standards and quality indicators

Key Strategies

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Support for educational leaders in the Polytechnic to determine the Polytechnic’s essential skills and develop an approach for inclusion in all Polytechnic programs.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A ‘Learning and Career Development’ approach for all Polytechnic learners.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Communities of Practice and experiential learning that support teachers’ flexible learning and problem-based learning capability.

Strategic Measures

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Employer satisfaction with graduate skills.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Achievement of TCE/vocational qualification outcomes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Proportion of graduates in work or further study.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Growth in enrolments.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Internal and external audit report findings || Digital technologies and services to support FACS learning.

Seamless local to global connectivity.

Digital technologies and services to support quality assurance processes in learning, teaching and assessment.

ePortfolios.

Digital technologies and services to support self-directed learning, adult learning, problem-based learning, service learning.

Participative and immersive learning environments to support online and blended learning communities. ||
 * = Strategic focus area 4: Our relationships =

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We can only achieve our goals if community, business and industry believe in and support the Polytechnic’s mission and identity.

Objectives

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To know our customers and stakeholders.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Partnerships in place with industry, business, government, parents and the broader community.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Community and business provide input into workplace learning.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Employers are engaged and involved in work-based learning with Polytechnic learners and staff.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Learners from rural and remote communities have greater access to a Polytechnic education and are retained in education and training longer.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Close relationships with the Skills Institute and the Tasmanian Colleges that provide seamless and efficient access to post-Year 10 education and training.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Polytechnic supports its communities’ projects and they provide staff and students with learning opportunities.

Key Strategies

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A stakeholder engagement strategy.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Engagement with industry, business and the community and education and training providers that ensures the relevance and timeliness of our vocational learning.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Collaborative partnerships that support the effective provision of post-Year 10 education and training in rural and remote communities.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Polytechnic leads government schools in applications for, and where successful and resourced the implementation of the Australian Government’s Trade Training Centres.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Reporting of learner achievement that meets the needs of learners, parents, employers and government.

Strategic Measures

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Stakeholder satisfaction with relationships and outcomes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Number of partnerships for provision of post-Year 10 education and training in rural and remote communities.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Number of community-based projects.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Employers report their support for workplace learning. || Engaging full-service virtual campus.

Participative media.

Participative and immersive online working environments to support collaboration and partnerships. ||
 * == Strategic focus area 5: Our infrastructure ==

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For it to deliver the full Polytechnic learning experience, the Polytechnic will require the resources necessary to modernise facilities and acquire and maintain learning technology and equipment. IT systems that support the Polytechnic’s business and provide meaningful information and reports will be essential.

Objectives

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Developments and redevelopments enhance identity and efficiency, and support the Polytechnic Learning Model.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Opportunities for funding for infrastructure development are maximised.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Polytechnic equipment is industry-endorsed and current.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Planning for sustainability of infrastructure that is flexible and future-aware.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Learning environments and equipment enable applied engagement with Workforce Futures.

Key Strategies

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A Polytechnic strategic capital and information and communications technology plan, including a plan for flexible and e-learning, and for incorporating ‘learning commons’ on Polytechnic campuses.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> A shared governance group to oversee implementation of the strategic capital and information and communications technology plan.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Collaboration with the Skills Institute, Tasmanian Colleges and other sectors of the Department of Education, Skills Tasmania and with Shared Services to develop strategies for maximising the efficient and effective utilisation of the Polytechnic’s assets.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Collaboration and partnerships with community, government, industry and business to provide accessible and enhanced learning environments for our learners.

Strategic Measures

 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Learner and staff satisfaction with learning environments.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Percentage of space occupied by the Polytechnic which is clearly branded as Polytechnic sites.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Capital expenditure.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Student to computer ratios.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Maintenance cost as a percentage of capital value. || Digital technologies and services provided by:
 * learners
 * teams
 * external hosting/cloud computig
 * DoE shared services

Broadband and NBN affordances and mobile internet.

Balancing access and privacy/security issues for (near) adult learners.

Digital technologies and services to support Polytechnic Learning Model.

Agile development.

Green computing.

Funding virtual infrastrucure.

Virtual campus and virtual learning commons.

Cross-sector collaboration with flexible and e-learning leaders and managers.

Access to ICT
 * campus
 * home
 * community
 * workplace
 * mobile ||
 * == Strategic focus area 6: Our brand and reputation ==

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To truly be successful, we must take the public with us and ensure that Tasmanians value a Polytechnic education in the same way as other forms of education.

Objectives

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Broad community pride in the Polytechnic.

Key Strategies

 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The case for change is defined.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Clear articulation of the value of the Polytechnic Learning Model with evidence.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Refined community communication to build awareness of the Polytechnic.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Generation, identification and publication of stories that demonstrate the Polytechnic’s learning approach and its successes.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Consistent Polytechnic messages and ‘look and feel’.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Relationships with government and the media that promote effective, ongoing communication and ensure the commitment of government and community to the Polytechnic’s success.

Strategic Measures

 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Improved brand profile and recognition.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Effectiveness of advertising.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Percentage of negative news stories compared to positive stories. || Participative media and online reputation and advertising.

Open virtual campus.

Online galleries, exhibitions and performances.

Social media guidelines.

Government 2.0

Integration with Polytechnic Marketing & Communications online strategy. ||
 * == Strategic focus area 7: Our governance, finance and sustainability ==

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Polytechnic cannot achieve its goals without effective governance and the necessary resources to support transition and allow for the development of the Polytechnic and its applied learning model. This includes support for individual learners and an enriched learning experience.

Objectives

 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Positive and effective relationships with the Tasmanian Colleges and Skills Institute.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Financial sustainability including for future investment.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Exemplary corporate governance.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A socially and environmentally responsible organisation.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A streamlined planning and performance measurement strategy.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Increased use of e-business.

Key Strategies

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A self-assessment process for the achievement of good practice governance.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ‘Green’ initiatives are incorporated into capital and assets planning and in developing workforce futures learning.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Budgeting and forecasting that is business aligned, and reporting tools that ensure proactive financial and business management.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Accountabilities are identified in statements of duties, and build Polytechnic leaders’ capabilities for sound financial and business management and planning.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Key community development projects that increase Polytechnic sponsorship and support service learning.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Agreed Polytechnic environmental and social commitments and measures of activity.

Strategic Measures

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Meet agreed budget and forecasts.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Growth in revenue per full-time equivalent staff member.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Green sustainability compared to government standards.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Percentage of expenditure on administrative functions. || Meeting the 4th Bottom Line.

eBusiness in eLearning.

Online commercialistion opportunities.

Green computing.

Online analytics.

Disaster recovery planning for online services.

Policy, guidelines and support for online services. ||