Safety Media creates a solution to eliminate ‘boring’ and ‘irrelevant’ compliance training
Course Creator is a new tool developed by Health and Safety e-Learning and Software specialists, Safety Media. The idea is that it will allow firms to use off the shelf content in a brand new and innovative way.
The concept is a relatively simple one, using drag and drop functionality the tool allows companies to choose what content is used in their courses and what is left out.
The “playlist” creation works in much the same way as most popular music players and so is already familiar to the majority of users.
“Health and Safety training is not a topic that should be decided by algorithms which pre-test knowledge. It is possible for people to guess the correct fire extinguisher to use on an electrical fire during a theoretical pre-test but this does not prove that the learner will make the same decision if faced with an actual emergency.”
Toby Roberts, Managing Director of Safety Media, goes on to add: “In order to ensure the correct information is passed on courses have to include material chosen by a qualified and responsible person who knows what is required for the individual requirements of the organisation and the environments therein.”
It is for this reason that Safety Media have broken up their course library into individual subjects allowing the right people to select the course content that needs to be included. Whether these courses are delivered as micro learning or as 3-hour all-encompassing training sessions, the decision is down to the company, not the e-Learning provider.
The material is offered in a variety of different workplace environments ensuring the context, as well as the content, is relevant to the individual learners.
In order to prove comprehension of the material all courses include a self-test and individual risk assessment, which only refers to the relevant material included in the course.
Where appropriate all of Safety Media’s standard courses come with ROSPA approval, which demonstrates high levels of quality and subject relevance of the material included in the course.
Although courses created using Course Creator will not be eligible to carry the RoSPA approval seal, the fact the material is the same provides administrators with reassurance that they are providing top quality training to their employees.
Upon reviewing the new tool, Alan Bellinger of the Learning and Performance Institute commented: “Generic courseware always suffers from the lack of agility and whilst personalisation puts a veneer on generic courseware, it doesn’t really address the core problem – and now you can! “Any colour, as long as it’s black” can now become a “legacy proposition.”
“The new tool may add a delay in time to value [seeing as the courses need to be created] but it increases that value considerably.”
The new proposition from Safety Media is designed to change the way off the shelf is delivered, with a hope that the old perceptions of it being “boring”, “the same” and “irrelevant” will become a thing of the past.
More information about Course Creator is available at www.safetymedia.co.uk/course-creator and visitors to Learning Live, 7-8th September 2016, can see the tool in action at the the exhibition.