My colleague had a great discussion point the other day. Her question was about what other technologies or tools have we used in our online teaching that might have been inspirational.
My company (including Sally who is in this pic) wanted to deliver 40 hours of safety and compliance training via live virtual training. That's five days of live instructor-led training via zoom. It was TOUGH to make it worthwhile and engaging. Other than workbooks, e-quizzes on handholds, and discussion, we also used videos of real-world fatalities that occurred in our industry for the class to watch and analyze.
These videos were relevant so they appealed to the trainees, they brought all of the modules into focus at once, instead of keeping them separate as they were trained, and best of all made the trainees analyze what had gone wrong and what they might be able to do to not mistakes the same mistakes themselves. Prior to each video we prepped the trainees and asked them to look for focus points in each video to look for and to analyze based on their training.
- We would train fall protection
- Then fire safety
- The electrical safety
- Another module might be on scaffolding
But so many accidents, especially fatalities, aren't just one thing going wrong, but a cascade of many problems. These videos helped our trainees understand that these safety aspects did not exist in a vacuum.
These videos were something that we did just to make the training more interesting, relevant, and effective. But what I've learned since is that we were actually working our way up from remember, to understand, to apply and up to analyze. By making them analyze these videos we were helping them apply and understand the learning. It's only since finishing that project and winding it down that I realize how founded it was an effective learning principles and innovative, scalable, technology.
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