Preparing for your assessment
New checklist of the four artefacts learners should have produced this week before Week 2 opens.
Preparing for your assessment
New checklist of the four artefacts learners should have produced this week before Week 2 opens.
What’s coming in Week 2
New signpost to Week 2 and to the Focus on Assessment 1 page that unpacks the brief.
Key concepts from this week
New summary block: four takeaways that mirror the week’s outcomes, so learners can self-check before Week 2.
Week 1 reading list
As you asked, the nine legacy references are deleted and replaced with a single reading list of every article set on pages 1.0 to 1.7, with required readings asterisked and the page each sits on named.
Week 1 discussion: My Assessment 1 topic
New discussion where learners declare their topic with one sentence of reasoning, so facilitators can see who has chosen what by the end of Week 1.
Generative AI and this assessment
New block carrying the no-generative-AI position in the blueprint’s wording, repeated on the Assessment 1 brief.
Employee wellbeing, resilience and mental health
The wellbeing topic and its two readings are kept here so both topics stay live. Would you like a wellbeing counterpart page to match this one, or is this enough?
Decide: which topic?
The Assessment 1 topic decision now sits on this page so learners choose straight after reading the talent articles, which keeps the choice in Week 1 as the blueprint requires.
As you read, note the talent management issues each article raises, and mark every place where the authors treat development, rather than recruitment alone, as the answer. If you lean toward the wellbeing topic, read the abstracts and conclusions only and carry on to the decision below.
You gave the two readings without questions, so this prompt is ours. Keep it, replace it, or would you like set questions like the ones on pages 1.2 and 1.3?
readings
Both readings use the RMIT permalinks and DOIs you supplied.
Talent management and skills gaps
This is a new page, built from your “1.6 Talent management and skills gaps” item. There is no legacy equivalent.
Two of these capability areas are your Assessment 1 topics in other words: Talent Management, with its skills in talent acquisition, capability, succession planning and engagement and retention, is where talent management and skills gaps lands; Health, Safety and Wellbeing, with psychological safety, psychosocial health and wellbeing, is where employee wellbeing, resilience and mental health lands. HRD is a facet of both.
New bridge: Talent Management and Health, Safety and Wellbeing are the two assessment topics in AHRI’s own language, which ties this framework to the learner’s chosen topic.
Long description of Figure 2
New accessibility block: the competency pyramid described in full text for anyone who cannot see the diagram.
Australian Society for Training and Development (ASTD).
The legacy page calls ASTD the Australian Society for Training and Development, but it is the American Society for Training and Development and the Davis et al. source is American. Shall we correct it?
Where does HRD sit in the AHRI framework?
The knowledge check is rewritten. The old answer was the “workforce and workplace designer” role, which no longer exists in the framework, so the answer is now Talent Management.
Select each capability to read what it covers and its skills and knowledge areas. There are seven, then a panel on the ten behaviours and one that matches the framework to HRM practice areas.
New accordion: the seven capabilities with their skills and knowledge areas, then the ten behaviours, then the legacy HRM practice-area mapping retained at the end.
The Australian HR Capability Framework
The AHRI Model of Excellence is replaced with the 2025 Australian HR Capability Framework, as you asked, and the page text, diagram, accordion and knowledge check are all rebuilt around it.
Week 1 discussion: Your investment case
New discussion: learners post a one-paragraph investment case with a source for each benefit, which becomes the opening argument of their essay.
The benefits of HRD in four statements
New H5P Summary: learners build a four-statement summary of the benefits by choosing the correct claim in each group.
Like all other HRM functions, HRD necessitates a structured and cyclical process, moving from strategies, policies and plans to: organisational, job and employee knowledge and skills analyses a range of customised learning and development activities careful evaluation of the effectiveness of all such interventions. Hold onto these three steps. In
New signpost: these three steps become the Assessment 2 structure in Weeks 3 and 4, so the link across assessments is visible from Week 1.
Hyland et al. 2005, p. 4
These quotations are retained, but Hyland et al. (2005) has never had a full reference anywhere in the course. Can you supply it?
Figure 1. The outcomes of HRD investment
New diagram proposed: it shows HRD investment producing organisational and employee outcomes together rather than as a trade-off. Alt text is drafted; the graphic still needs to be made.
Benefits of HRD
Your note asked to move 1.6 to 1.5. We have kept Benefits of HRD here because it carries the benefits strand of MLO1.3 and the three-step process Assessment 2 builds on, which makes the week run to 1.8. Does that work, or did you intend to drop this page?
RMIT Library.
The reading is retained on the legacy RMIT link. We could not confirm the volume and issue number for the reading list; do you have them?
Week 1 discussion: Principles and processes in your organisation
New discussion board so learners can compare how the same principles look across different industries. Happy to keep it, or would you rather remove it?
Select each principle to learn more.
The three principles are unchanged in wording but now sit in expandable panels rather than one long block of text, so learners take them one at a time.
Which principle is at work? Select your answer, then select Check. The feedback explains the rule and how it relates to Assessment 1.
New H5P single choice: learners match a described practice to the right principle, with the skills-profile principle as the answer.
Watch out for the second principle.
New watch-out note: if an organisation holds no skills data, that absence is itself a finding for the essay.
How and why are talent management and skills gaps, or employee wellbeing, resilience and mental health, a concern to SHRD today? How can this impact on performance in your organisation, or the Health Care organisation?
We have rewritten the activity questions: the legacy pair asked about discrimination and bullying “in 2024”, which no longer matches the assessment topics. Keep this version, or restore the original?
What the professional bodies agree on
New H5P single choice on what SHRM, CIPD and AHRI all say development is for, with feedback that points back to each body’s own wording.
What Will The Role of Learning and Development be in 2030? Interview with Vidya Krishnan – myHRfuture (2020), YouTube, 3:32 minLinks to an external site.Optional. One practitioner’s predictions for where learning and development is heading; when you finish the course, come back and check whether they held.
The legacy myHRfuture video is kept here as optional watching rather than removed, as agreed.
After reading Garavan et al. (2016), think about how strategic HRD, rather than operational training, addresses the challenge your organisation faces in your chosen topic: talent management and skills gaps, or employee wellbeing, resilience and mental health. Draft a response in preparation for Assessment 1. What is the role of SHRD in building the capabilities, or the wellbeing and resilience, that the organisation will need next, not just now? Please refer to your own personal experiences as well. Note your thoughts in preparation for Assessment 1.
The two SHRD questions were framed around diversity and inclusion, which no longer matches the assessment topics, so we have reframed them to the learner’s chosen topic. Do they still ask what you want asked?
Read the article
New reading: Shet (2020) on the RMIT permalink you supplied, with your “identify three issues” reflection used word for word.
Talent Tug-of-War: The Pull Between Acquisition vs. Development | Honest HR (duration to be confirmed at build)
The Stovall diversity and inclusion TED talk is removed and replaced with your Honest HR video, embedded to play from the start, with your two questions beneath it.
wo articles
These two readings are on DOI links for now. RMIT Library permalinks for Garavan (2023) and Poell et al. (2024) are the last two we need from you.
Save the reflection with your two descriptions from page 1.1. Together they are the draft opening of your Assessment 1 essay. About 10 minutes.
The reflection is now framed as the draft opening of the Assessment 1 essay, so each page leaves the learner with something the essay can use.
Which level is the definition working at?
New H5P multiple choice: learners place the two definitions at societal rather than organisational level, which sets up why the new readings matter for the essay.
The internal context of an organisation, including strategic orientation, organisation culture and leadership, can have an influence on HRD. Think about your own organisation and how the internal context affects the HRD practices there.
The legacy task also asked learners to place their organisation on the Mitsakis maturity scale, which leaves with that reading. Would you like an equivalent step built from the new articles?
Both pieces are editorials by the journals’ editors rather than research studies, so read them for the argument: where do the authors say HRD is now, where must it go next, and what would that mean for the way your organisation develops people?
Both new readings are editorials rather than empirical studies, which suits the “main arguments” question well. Are you comfortable with that, or would you like one research article alongside them?
Prescribed reading task
Mitsakis (2019) is removed and replaced with your two readings, Garavan (2023) and Poell et al. (2024), and your three questions are used word for word.
HRD is the process of increasing the knowledge, the
Both definitions and the commentary around them are retained word for word from the legacy page, including the Harbison and Myers wording.
Difference Between HRM and HRDLinks to an external site.The short article this page asks you to read first, useful to revisit once you have written your own descriptions and want to check your wording against it.
This legacy short article is retained, but we have not been able to confirm its original source. Is this the article you intend, or would you like a replacement?
Reveal feedback
New accessible alternative: the completed statements as plain text for anyone who cannot use the drag interaction.
HRD or HRM?
New H5P Drag the Words: six statements where learners sort HRD work from HRM work, with feedback that teaches rather than just marking. Workforce planning is the deliberate trap.
Brainstorm on the Padlet: HRD and HRM
Padlet retained and embedded as you asked, using the cleaned board. The prompt is repeated in page text with a fallback route for anyone who cannot use Padlet.
Short of time? The conversation with Dr Garavan runs from 2:00 to 23:34. As you listen, note one thing a strategic HRD function does that an operational one does not; you will use it on page 1.2.
The full episode runs 69 minutes, so we have made the Garavan segment the core listen and left the rest optional. Should the whole episode be required instead?
Read and listen before you brainstorm
This new block carries your “1.1 Readings”: Han and Stieha (2020) on the RMIT permalink you supplied, and the AHRD Strategic HRD podcast with Thomas Garavan and Holly Hutchins.
The challenge
New ABLE structure on every task page: challenge, output, task, instructions, then supporting resources. It makes the purpose and the artefact explicit before the learner starts.
Getting help this week
New block pointing learners to the help board and the Welcome orientation, so questions have one obvious home.
What makes HRD strategic (about 4:00, proposed)
Proposed synthesia video intro
This week’s pages and activities
New for the refresh: the week now opens with a map of all seven pages, their times and the outcome each one builds. From the co-design session, this is the visible scaffolding thread.