Classroom Learning
Integrating interactive technology into classrooms better connects students to outside experts and distributed learning opportunities. Here is an Internet-based Smart Screen that connects to Microsoft Lync and Skype.
E-learning
There are numerous online resources to acquire safety training in specific areas. For example, WHMIS training can be completed online using free resources. As well, safety training websites can be accessed that offer online videos, slide shows, web books and mobile apps, such as WorkSafeBC.
Simulated Learning – Hands-on Training Facilities
Facilities such as Enform’s Nisku Training Facility immerse trainees in live operating environments to get hands-on training and “experience process upsets and undesired operating conditions to gain firsthand experience in troubleshooting situations” (Enform, n.d., p. 2).
Distance Learning – Print
While print based materials offer little interactivity for job seekers to attain safety certification, they can become interactive when combined with instructional radio, audio- and video-teleconferencing, pre-produced computer software, and television, among other examples. Distance learning models open up learning opportunities for both developed and developing countries. At the beginning of the new century, the World Bank, predicted that “the existence of successful distance-education institutions in more developed countries and within developing countries, including those in the Sub Sahara region, confirms both a basic market demand and the feasibility of using non-traditional methodologies and a relatively wide variety of technologies for meeting technical and vocational training needs” (Stevens, 2001, p. 62).
