Let’s stop beating around the bush! This current “E-Learning craze” is confusing the learning-picture for many trainers and corporate executives! Most current E-Learning is garbage! It reflects the oldest and least effective of the technology training solutions (i.e., CBT of the 1980’s, when we were using our earliest computers to emulate books). So it is today when E-Learning examples are nothing other than re-purposed PowerPoint and written procedure adaptations. The amazing learning...
Cranes serve as an integral part of an industrial fleet of machinery. However, if not inspected and used properly by a trained and experienced professional, cranes can post huge risks to the operators and the workers around them. Follow these helpful safety tips before operating a crane and be sure to properly train and retrain your employees with comprehensible and easy to use SCORM compliant e-Learning courseware from ITC Learning. • During...
Electricity powers our modern world. However, electrocution is one of the leading causes of industrial fatalities. It can also cause painful shocks, damage equipment, and ignite flammable materials, which can result in injured employees and unnecessary costs for a company. In order to prevent injury, fatalities, and preventable costs for your company, ensure that all of your employees have received up-to-date electrical safety training. Always remember to de-energize hazards and follow the...
What are the true “reading literacy” facts today? Only 24 percent of this nation’s 4th graders are able to form opinions from what they read, and only 34 percent of our high school seniors can. The majority of our working adult population cannot comprehend beyond a third- or fourth-grade reading level. Opportunity knocks! And that knocking your imagination should hear is for the full-motion, optional audio, fully branched, multiple learning-style accommodation programming...
Here at ITC Learning, we are the experts at developing industrial training. We cover all the bases, from maintenance training, manufacturing training, plant training, and mechanical training. We handle all of our clients on a case-by-case basis, evaluating your company, the equipment that you use, and the products your manufacture. From there, we will help create training materials that will help your employees work to their best abilities, provide your company with...
The business segment that has pioneered most of the design advances in corporate media training for the past four decades has been industrial skills training for the process and manufacturing industries. The first generic industrial training media course was produced by NUS Corporation (Rockville, Maryland) in 1973. It was produced for the nuclear power industry and was in black and white, mastered on a two inch reel-to-reel video recorder. Two years later...
In the past, after completing one’s schooling (maybe only until the eighth grade) one became an apprentice. An honorable first step because it meant you had a “career path,” and you knew what you were going to do and how you were to do it. You were going to acquire a skill. You learned, for example, how to take a pump apart — not by reading about it, but by doing it....
Heavy Machine Operation is serious business, and if not performed correctly, it can mean lives are at stake. Be sure to follow these rules and incorporate your industrial skills training when operating or working around heavy machinery: • NEVER operate heavy machinery under the influence of drugs or alcohol. This includes over-the-counter medication, which could cause a driver to become drowsy and less alert. Be sure to read all drug information labels...
Instructional Design (ID) is so much more than the formulae taught today in many universities. ID, in order to be effective, combines creativity and analysis that, ideally, places the profession into an interpretative arts category. And, we all should know by now, that higher education — dominated by its Enlightenment-influenced academic departments — tends to look down on fields of study that cannot trace their research directly to the scientific or mathematical...
Accidents can happen anytime in the workplace, but the first step in preventing them is to properly train your employees and ensure that refresher courses, especially those in a comprehensible, SCORM compliant e-learning format, are available to them on a regular basis. Workplace accidents are far more expensive than one would expect. While Workers’ Compensation claims cover medical costs and indemnity payments for an injured worker, there are also direct costs of...
Today, we’re going to examine the major components found in an effective E-Learning course — a course that will actually improve on-the-job performance and increase retention. “Optional Word-for-Word Audio Capability” is the first essential quality specifically necessary for effective E-Learning. You want your people to learn, retain, and apply the information you present. You already know that 40% of your workforce is not reading-fluent (typically, a fourth grade reading level, or below)....
Welding, the industry’s most common method of joining metals, poses many serious risks if not performed with caution and proper skills training. Before welding or cutting, be sure to have thorough welding training and follow these helpful tips: • The operator and those around him should always wear protective and flame-resistant clothing, goggles, and gloves. Covering all parts of the body is recommended to protect from sparks, splatter, or radiation. • Always...
Air compressors, if not properly handled, can pose serious danger. Improper use and maintenance creates risky circumstances for an air compressor to operate. Maintenance should only be performed by a trained air compressor repair technician. Follow these helpful tips below to avoid the dangers of operating an air compressor: Rupture Because of the large amount of air being pressurized into the vessel, there is a possibility of too much pressure, leading the...
There’s an interesting new book by Naomi Schaefer Riley entitled, “The Faculty Lounges: and Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get the College Education You Paid For.” In his book review (“The New York Times,” July 11), Stanley Fish describes Riley’s book as bringing “two subjects that are usually treated separately in the literature.” “The first is the increasing tendency, on the part of students, legislators, administrators and some faculty members, to view...
