Analysis and development of professional materials used in Australian technical and further education

Australia is proud of its recent major achievement, i.e., the Australian Technical and Further Education’s (TAFE) curriculum development mechanism and teaching materials development. The widely used TAFE training packages have become an important basis for developing vocational education and training related courses and materials. The training packages were supervised and developed by industry to provide flexible and uniform training content and certification standards nationwide to ensure that those trained receive the professional skills and knowledge needed by industry. The training packages consist of primary parts that require national endorsement, including unit of competency, qualifications framework, and assessment guidelines, as well as auxiliary parts that do not require endorsement, such as learning strategy, assessment resources, and professional materials. This paper employs the development process and the structure of TAFE’s training packages to analyze the content TAFE’s professional materials to make Taiwan’s vocational education teaching materials more practical and more diversified to meet the needs of industry.