TRAINING Carl Dyke • Lunchbox Sessions
Learning hydraulics on a tablet
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Traditional on-site fluid power training is always a compromise. Shifts have to be scheduled around, an instructor found and brought to the site, and the class needs to learn and move forward together. If the abilities of the students in that class are badly mismatched, some students will spend most of their training time bored, wading through beginner material, while others might be overwhelmed by material that is too advanced. Even skilled instructors have to compromise, and teach towards the middle of the class’ ability. At the end of the class, the instructor vanishes, and the students resume regular work. Whatever was not absorbed in that short visit is lost.
Some businesses look to computer-based training, or e-Learning, to address these training deficits, but traditional e-Learning comes up short in the fluid power world as well. Many, if not most technicians, mechanics and millwrights are not thrilled at passively 28
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clicking “next” on a glorified slideshow for hours at a time. These are people who got into trades because they love the activity, and don’t always enjoy sitting and reading. Kinesthetic learning is strong in this group; lengthy video lectures or slide shows do not play to that strength. Learning this way can easily be perceived as a chore or even a punishment, instead of the vote of confidence in their value that such an investment really is. CD Industrial Group Inc. launched LunchBoxSessions. com to revolutionize e-Learning by attacking these problems. LunchBox Sessions is a completely new e-Learning platform that works equally well for self-directed learning, or for supporting an instructor-led classroom session. Our strong roots in onsite technician training have guided our e-Learning content development and informed our technical choices. We are ready to challenge your notions of what computer-based training can accomplish.
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