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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Occupational Awards Limited has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Occupational Awards Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Occupational Awards Limited.
The OAL Level 3 Diploma in Learning and Development Practice is an occupational qualification. It is for individuals working in learning and development roles. The diploma covers vocational assessment, learning and development principles, needs analysis, delivery, and promotion of inclusion.
These are the units Occupational Awards Limited registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Occupational Awards Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. Occupational Awards Limited sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Assess occupational competence in the work environment Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the assessment of occupational competence in the work environment, ensuring alignment with relevant standards.
- Select appropriate assessment methods for evaluating occupational competence.
- Make valid and reliable assessment decisions about occupational competence based on gathered evidence.
- Provide clear and constructive feedback to learners following the assessment of occupational competence.
- Provide accurate and timely information to relevant parties following the assessment of occupational competence.
- Maintain legal requirements when assessing occupational competence.
- Maintain good practice requirements when assessing occupational competence.
Assess vocational skills, knowledge and understanding Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare assessments of vocational skills, knowledge and understanding, ensuring alignment with relevant standards.
- Carry out assessments of vocational skills, knowledge and understanding using appropriate methods.
- Provide clear and constructive feedback to learners following the assessment of vocational skills, knowledge and understanding.
- Provide accurate and timely information to relevant parties following the assessment of vocational skills, knowledge and understanding.
- Maintain legal requirements when assessing vocational skills, knowledge and understanding.
- Maintain good practice requirements when assessing vocational skills, knowledge and understanding.
Collaborate effectively with others in learning and development practice Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate effectively with others in a learning and development context.
- Handle sensitive situations professionally in a learning and development context.
- Collaborate effectively in teams within a learning and development environment.
- Collaborate effectively in the wider business context within a learning and development environment.
Deliver learning and monitor learners’ progress Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and practices of training/learning for individuals and groups, including different learning styles and preferences
- Deliver training/learning to individuals and groups, using appropriate methods and resources
- Monitor learners’ progress and provide constructive feedback to support achievement of learning outcomes
Design, develop and structure learning resources Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles that underpin the design, development and structure of effective training and learning resources.
- Design, develop and structure training and learning resources to meet specified learning needs, taking into account different learning styles and preferences.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of training and learning resources in achieving intended learning outcomes and identify areas for improvement.
Develop self and deliver work outcomes in learning and development practice Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Develop self and take an active interest in new learning and development ideas and techniques to enhance professional practice
- Deliver work objectives and outcomes effectively in learning and development practice, demonstrating competence and professionalism
Engage learners in the learning and development process Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and purpose of engaging learners in learning and development activities
- Understand the role of mentoring in facilitating learning and development
- Assist and engage the learner in the learning and development process effectively
- Assist the learner in reviewing their own progress and identifying areas for improvement
Engage with employers to develop and support learning provision Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand information relating to how employers develop learning provision for learners.
- Understand how to effectively engage with employers for the benefit of learners.
- Engage with employers to enhance learning opportunities for learners.
- Evaluate the effect of employer provision on the learner and the partner organisation.
Evaluate the impact of learning and ways to improve learning solutions Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of evaluation of learning solutions.
- Understand the principles of quality improvement of learning solutions.
- Evaluate the impact of learning solutions in accordance with organisational requirements.
- Seek ways to improve learning solutions in accordance with organisational requirements.
Grade and moderate vocational assessment Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the grading process for vocational assessments, ensuring fairness, consistency, and validity.
- Grade vocational assessments accurately and consistently, applying appropriate criteria and standards.
- Moderate graded vocational assessments to ensure consistency and fairness across assessors and learners.
- Manage information relevant to the grading and moderation of vocational assessments, maintaining accurate records and documentation.
- Maintain good practice requirements when grading and moderating vocational assessments, adhering to relevant regulations and guidelines.
Identify and analyse learning and development needs Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and practices of training/learning needs analysis, including different methods and their application
- Identify and analyse training/learning needs using appropriate techniques and tools
- Agree training/learning and development needs with relevant stakeholders, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives
Lead the moderation of graded vocational assessment Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the moderation of graded assessment, ensuring a robust and effective process.
- Lead the moderation of the standards and quality of graded assessment, ensuring consistency and fairness across all assessors.
- Maintain and improve the moderation of graded assessment, identifying areas for development and implementing appropriate strategies.
- Manage information relevant to the moderation of assessment, ensuring accurate records and effective communication.
- Maintain good practice requirements when leading the moderation of graded assessment, adhering to relevant regulations and guidelines and promoting continuous improvement.
Plan and prepare learning events and interventions Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of planning training and learning events.
- Understand the principles of organising training and learning events.
- Understand the principles of preparing training and learning events.
- Plan training or learning for two different events.
- Plan training or learning for two different interventions.
- Organise training or learning for two different events.
- Organise training or learning for two different interventions.
- Prepare training or learning for two different events.
- Prepare training or learning for two different interventions.
Principles and practices of grading and moderating vocational assessment Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the context and principles that underpin the grading and moderation of vocational assessment.
- Understand how to grade vocational assessment in line with relevant standards and criteria.
- Understand how to moderate vocational assessment to ensure consistency and fairness.
- Understand how to manage information relevant to the grading and moderation of vocational assessment, maintaining accuracy and confidentiality.
- Understand the good practice requirements for the grading and moderation of vocational assessment, including quality assurance processes.
Principles and practices of learning and development Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of learning and development within an organisation
- Understand the different models that underpin effective learning and how they can be applied
- Understand how different delivery channels can be effective in meeting the diverse needs of learners
Principles of learning and development functionality in business and commerce Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the business context for learning and development.
- Understand the commercial context for learning and development.
- Understand the process for learning and development within a business and commercial environment.
- Understand the roles of learning and development personnel.
- Understand the responsibilities of learning and development personnel.
- Understand the policies required for organisational learning.
- Understand the procedures required for organisational learning.
Principles of management of information and use of technology in learning and development Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of managing information in learning and development.
- Understand the principles of managing data in learning and development.
- Understand how technology can be used to support learning.
- Understand how technology can be used to support development.
Promote inclusion, participation and maintain the safety of learners in learning Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the management of health, safety and safeguarding in learning and development environments, including relevant legislation and procedures
- Understand how to work effectively with people from a range of backgrounds and cultures, and recognise how equality, diversity and inclusion influences learning and development interventions
- Maintain health, safety and safeguarding standards, and promote and apply equality of opportunity, participation and inclusion in all learning activities
Provide information and advice to learners and employers Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range of information and advice available for learners and employers.
- Understand own boundaries and limitations when providing information and advice to learners and employers.
- Provide accurate and relevant information and advice to learners and employers.
- Assist learners and employers to access appropriate information and advice resources.
Reflect on and improve own practice in learning and development Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand approaches to and processes associated with reflective practice and continuing professional development, including models of reflection and CPD frameworks
- Reflect on own performance as a learning and development practitioner, identifying strengths and areas for development
- Improve own learning and development practice based on reflection and feedback, implementing strategies for continuous improvement
Understanding the principles and practices of assessment Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles underpinning assessment practices.
- Understand the regulatory requirements relating to assessment.
- Understand the different types of assessment method available.
- Understand the strengths and limitations of different assessment methods.
- Understand how to plan assessment activities to meet specific learning outcomes.
- Understand how to involve learners in the assessment process.
- Understand how to involve other relevant parties in the assessment process.
- Understand how to make fair, valid and reliable assessment decisions.
- Understand the importance of quality assurance in the assessment process.
- Understand the procedures for quality assuring assessment practices.
- Understand how to manage information relating to assessment activities and outcomes.
- Understand the legal requirements in relation to assessment.
- Understand the good practice requirements in relation to assessment.
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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Analyse Customer and Business Needs and the Business
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Develop Own Skills and Practice
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Engage in the strategic development of adult learning
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Gather and report data and information to inform the development and review of National Occupational Standards (NOS)
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Manage or coordinate inclusive family learning environments
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Plan Learning
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Reflect on, develop and maintain own skills and practice in learning and development
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 13 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Training & Development Specialist
This work can lead to managing learning programmes for a department, or heading up a wider learning and development function.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Occupational Awards Limited rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Assess occupational competence in the work environmentAssess vocational skills, knowledge and understandingCollaborate effectively with others in learning and development practiceDeliver learning and monitor learners’ progressDesign, develop and structure learning resourcesDevelop self and deliver work outcomes in learning and development practiceEngage learners in the learning and development processEngage with employers to develop and support learning provision
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Plan and prepare learning events and interventions” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Deliver learning and monitor learners’ progress” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Lead the moderation of graded vocational assessment” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Analyse Customer and Business Needs and the Business
- Develop Own Skills and Practice
- Engage in the strategic development of adult learning
- Gather and report data and information to inform the development and review of National Occupational Standards (NOS)
- Manage or coordinate inclusive family learning environments
- Plan Learning
- Reflect on, develop and maintain own skills and practice in learning and development
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Assess occupational competence in the work environment, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will acquire skills to plan and conduct assessments of occupational competence in the workplace. The unit covers aligning assessments with occupational standards, making valid judgements, and maintaining legal and good practice requirements.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for OAL Level 3 Diploma in Learning and Development Practice
21 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Occupational Awards Limited.
- Assess occupational competence in the work environment
- Assess vocational skills, knowledge and understanding
- Collaborate effectively with others in learning and development practice
- Deliver learning and monitor learners’ progress
- Design, develop and structure learning resources
- Develop self and deliver work outcomes in learning and development practice
and 15 more in the full unit list below.
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