As a Chief Pilot for a small 135 company, Im looking at improving our training processes and moving some of our courses to online modules. Were getting big enough as a company I want to automate some of the training, including the tests and some of the re-currency courses and yearly systems training.
I been looking for some software or suggestions that I can find to help me move in this direction, and I figured that I could get some suggestions from some of you, what does your company use? Any ideas on what software might be available? what do you like or not like about it? Is monthly training modules more or less effective than a once a year week long course?
Any suggestions or input would be appreciated!
THIS!!!
OMG, some of the "training" options out there right now are horrendous. So bad, I'm taking advantage of a perceived opportunity and writing a decent one myself. Worst case, I get smarter. Best case, I pay for the time I spend.
I recently experienced some training in which the student was forced to click through more than 300 individual pages to get through
just one of 16 chapters. If published as a booklet, those 300+ pages could have been reduced to ~20 pages, and by doing so, the content would have been rendered
far more coherent. Seriously, one could have read the entire "PHAK" in a shorter amount of time. Many, if not most of those 300+ pages contained
just one line of often irrelevant text.
Yeah, one sentence per page!! And one could not move on to the test without clicking through
every page because there were "check-points" (questions that - however inane - had to be answered before the student was allowed to proceed to the chapter test) randomly embedded in the page progession. And yes, even if you could click like a bot, you still had to spend a minimum amount of time in each chapter before the test was enabled.
Critically, the deficit just described relates ONLY to FUBAR structure and execution. Let's just say it's best not to use "technology" just because it's available. And it's best not to use technology like ARC welders, Bulldozers, or HTML if you have no clue what you're doing or what job you're trying to accomplish.
Don't even get me started on content. Suffice it to say that if one didn't already know 90% of the content included in this exceptional training program, one should not even have been invited for an interview, let alone gotten hired.
