Online Learning · Examples include a webinar, a chat session, an online breakout room, or a...
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Online Learning The Future of Safety Training
Online Learning · Examples include a webinar, a chat session, an online breakout room, or a s對hared online activity like a white board session. Most synchronous online learning
Hello! I am Beth Stinson, the Director of Education & Online Learning at ARTBA. It is my pleasure to introduce today’s program, Online Learning: The Future of Safety Training. This is a long session with multiple speakers who are going to showcase some of the new and exciting resources now available for safety training.
2:15 Update on Work Zone Clearinghouse Website Jerry Ullman, TTI & Una Connolly, ARTBA
2:30 WZ Consortium ARTBA Online Academy Course Spotter Certification Instructor Rod Wolford & Beth Larson, FOF & Jerry Ullman, TTI
3:00 BREAK 3:15 Introducing the ARTBA Online Learning Center Beth Stinson, ARTBA
3:30 Backing & Spotting ARTBA Online Academy Course Rod Wolford and Beth Larson, FOF
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Here is our agenda for this session. I am going to speak for about 15 minutes on Online Learning. Then I’ll hand the session off to Una Connelly and Jerry Ullman, who will tell you about all the exciting updates to the Work Zone Information Clearinghouse website. They’ll speak for about 15 minutes and then hand the session off to Rod Wolford and Beth Larson of FOF, who will showcase the new ARTBA Online Academy course Spotter Certification Instructor. At 3 we’ll break for 15 minutes and then start in again at 3:15 when I will introduce the new ARTBA Online Learning Center. Rod and Beth will wrap up this session with another course showcase, Backing and Spotting. Let’s get rolling!
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In many companies and organizations, large and small, training is all over the place, like the jumble of signs you see here. You have face-to-face classes, you have online classes, you have internal company classes, and informal training on the job. There is never a budget large enough to conduct all the training you’d like to have. Often, there are not a lot of standards, goals, or career pathways in this approach to training. Other times, training is set up for compliance, so a box can get checked off for someone somewhere. When you throw all this together, chaos can result. Today, I am going to share with you some of the different types of online learning you can use for safety training. I’ll also talk about the benefits and risks for moving safety training online. Finally, I’ll introduce you to Jerry Ullman and Una Connelly, who will tell you all about the exciting new updates to the Work Zone Information Clearinghouse, and new resources for safety training.
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Before I get started, I wanted to share a little bit of my career experience with you because I am new to your community. And because my career traces the past 20 years of the history of educational technology or “edtech”. Knowing where these trends come from gives you a context for their importance today and where we are heading in the future. I went to college before there was an Internet. <photo 1> In 1995, I was working at a university as the department head of Audio/Visual Services when I saw Mosaic, the first internet browser.<photo2> I realized the world was going to change, especially education. I developed some of the first online courses at Florida International University, and witnessed first hand how excited the students were to have materials and content available outside of the classroom. <photo3>Inn response, we built computer labs and smart classrooms. And when computer and network technology advanced, students became untethered from locations and time. They could learn from home. They could learn at midnight. They could use their own equipment. <photo4> I jumped into the private sector in 1999 spent over a decade working for software companies building online learning platforms. I have been a technical writer, an instructional designer, a project manager, a program manager, a department head, and a product owner. I have taught people everything from the History of Photography to Public Speaking to Cyber Security online. I love what I do and the promise online education holds for workers of every skill level and ability.<photo5> I was delighted to join ARTBA in December 2015 to design and build online safety training in support of the SCTPP program.
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There are lots of terms that describe edtech. How many of you are familiar with the term LMS? Mobile leaning? Flipped classroom? MOOC? Gamification? Experiential learning? Blended learning? Asynchronous learning? There is an awful lot of technology out there used in many ways. Today I am going to focus on “online learning” – that is using a computer or mobile device to connect to the internet and interact with content – text, images, video, games.
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Online learning is like eating ice cream. Informal online learning is like a vanilla ice cream cone. You can make the cone at home, or you can buy it in a shop. The cone, like the information is basic, but can be very satisfying when you just need something fast and reliable. I use this strategy all the time. I look up videos how to use Excel or take apart a faucet. Examples of informal online learning are looking up instructions on how to complete a task on YouTube or Wikipedia. It’s just-in-time to solve an immediate problem or get answers. Informal online learning takes place when employees look up answers on your company website, or on government sites like OSHA, or government sponsored sites like the Work Zone Information Clearinghouse.
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Formal online learning is like ordering a sundae at a shop. Someone has prepared a special dish for you that has multiple ingredients. Your sundae has the flavors you want, but blended into something to satisfy a more complex hunger. Examples of formal online learning are online courses, webinars, and blended classes (part online and part in person). Each of these has specific objectives, content, and activities to support the objectives, and usually some type of assessment at the end.
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Synchronous online learning is the same as sharing your ice cream sundae with others. You have to be in the same place (logged into the same course or session) at the same time. Examples include a webinar, a chat session, an online breakout room, or a shared online activity like a white board session. Most synchronous online learning is formal. It has a goal, and needs planning and coordination like a course discussion or webinar. There are instances when it can be informal like a spontaneous group chat session or even a skype conference call.
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Asynchronous online learning is learning at your own pace. You order your sundae or make your ice cream cone when you want it, and eat it by yourself. You can stick your leftovers in the freezer and resume eating when you are ready. Examples include online courses where you go through the material as an individual or playing back a recorded webinar because you missed the session. Asynchronous online learning can be formal like an online course or informal like looking up information online when you need it. I hope I haven’t made you too hungry talking about ice cream! While frozen dessert is a “nice to have” luxury, online safety training is not. Moving safety training online is a necessity today. Why?
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Budgets are shrinking everywhere, but training needs do not shrink. Moving training online saves time and money. Reduce the use of classroom space. <click> Reduce the time employees are away from work. <click>Reduce travel. <click> Reuse digital materials – you can’t reuse a live class.<click> According to an International Review of Research in the journal of Open and Distributed Learning using these techniques saved IBM 200 million dollars, a third of it’s training budget. Dow Chemical reduced spending from $95 per learner to $11 per learner moving online. Cisco cut it’s training costs 40% when it moved training online.
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Research about online learning has revealed that there are no significant differences in learning outcomes when compared to traditional classroom training. There are some very real advantages according to the U.S. Department of Education’s meta analysis and review of online learning studies. Older students in online courses performed modestly better, on average, than those learning the same material through traditional face-to-face instruction. Giving learners control of their interactions online enhances learning. Instruction combining online and face-to-face elements (blended learning) can be more effective than purely face-to-face instruction. Online learning is effective across a very broad range topics and learner types.
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It has never been easier to connect with adult workers in the US using technology. According to the Pew Research Center, Smartphone ownership is almost at saturation point for 18-29 year olds – 86% in 2015. 83% for 30-49 year olds. Tablet computer ownership is on the rise and laptop ownership is stable at about 73% of US adults. Younger workers expect to use their mobile devices at work for training and communication, and will use their devices to interact with their peers.
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According to the Pew Research Center, 63% of workers have taken a class or gotten additional training in the past 12 months to improve their job skills or position themselves career advancement. But not all workers use the internet for training. For Americans with less education and lower incomes, the internet is not an important resource for training. Only 43% of workers with a high school education have used the internet for job related training compared to 83% of those with college degrees. Other times there is just no substitute for face-to-face instruction. Often, combining the two has the best outcome for all workers. Those that have access to online materials can prepare for in class activities and they have access to material after class to reference what was covered. This type of blended learning appeals to workers have English as a second or other language and workers who have learning disabilities like dyslexia. Online content can be played over and over again helping workers master the material. Training can also be reviewed right before work begins on a new project providing “just-in-time” training.
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Another benefit to online training is to prepare for certification exams. Many of you have heard about ARTBA’s new Safety Certified Transportation Project Professional program. Our online courses can help workers prepare for the certification exam. The content is designed as formal asynchronous training. However, workers can enroll in the same course and work together to master the material. More on this later.
National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse
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I’d now like to change it up a little bit and introduce Jerry Ullman and Una Connelly to give you an update on the Work Zone Information Clearinghouse.
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New Course: Spotter Certification Instructor
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Beth MacNeil Stinson Director of Education & Online Learning
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I’m back again. Thanks for rejoining the session. I promised more info on the new ARTBA Online Learning Center so here it is.
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What is the ARTBA Online Learning Center?
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The ARTBA Online Learning Center is your one stop shop for high quality online safety training. Our initial offering is comprised of six courses that can be used to prepare for the SCTPP exam. This is the course catalog. The course offerings can be displayed as a list, shown here, or as a grid of images, shown on the next slide. You can expand the list for a description. Like buying anything online, you add the courses you want to your cart, create an account, and then pay with a credit card. https://register.artba.org/index.php
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Here is a screen shot of the course list as a grid. All of our courses are compatible with laptops and tablets. Most content can be viewed on a smart phone as well. There is no need to download a special app for mobile devices. Please note, however, that some activities do require a larger screen because their size is a fixed width. All first-time enrollees must create an account. Login info will be sent in the confirmation email.
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How do you use it? If you’d like to follow along with me, without going through the shopping cart process, use this URL
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Logging in Login card at your table After payment has been received, users are sent the URL for the Learning Center. Users enter the username and password they have already established during the enrollment process. This is the Learning Center Home page. The left side is the navigation panel for system tools and links. The left navigation changes, depending on where you are in the Learning Center. The top links remain constant no matter where you are. You can always return home, get to your course list, see the date, see your scores, and get help.
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Course list, Course home. Your account has you enrolled in two courses, Communication and Traffic Control. The slide here shows that Mike Forsythe is enrolled in six courses.
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All the course content is arranges in modules. You can access the modules in any order, but once inside a module you must follow the content in sequence. In order to successfully complete a course, you must mark each module compete and pass the test.
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Each course test has ten questions picked randomly from a larger bank of questions. Students have three attempts to score 80% or higher. All the tests are scored automatically. The test questions are true/false, multiple choice, multiple answer, matching, ordering, and fill in the blank.
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Why is this the training solution for your company or organization?
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It saves money, there is no difference in learning outcomes compared to traditional classroom training, and we have a diverse and connected workforce that expects to use technology. But at the end of the day, what really matters is saving lives. By training more workers to put safety as top-of-mind, and empowering them to identify and report hazards, we will reduce workplace incidents, injuries, and deaths.
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WZ Consortium &
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New Course: Backing and Spotting
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Please welcome back Rod Wolford and Beth Larson, FOF
