Developing Video Based Case Studies for PowerPoint
I have been exploring a number of ways to use technology to improve the effectiveness of health and safety training including the creation of video that can be inserted into PowerPoint (the tool used by most trainers today) and fashioned into case studies. Case studies can assist an instructor evaluate a training participant’s comprehension of material. It can also be used to integrate previously learned knowledge and skills by making a trainee apply what they have learned. In this case, short videos are placed into a PowerPoint presentation in sequence. The videos describe an actual incident (I have been using the animation produced by the CSB). After each video sequence a set of questions are posed that the trainer can use to create interaction with the class. The video sequences build until catastrophe strikes. The questions posed following a video sequence can be altered to fit the audience. I have found that the CSB videos (and particularly the animations of events) create wonderful case studies using this approach. If you would like to view an example, you can download a zipped file containing the video clips and PowerPoint presentation at link provided (http://www.oehs2.com/trainingexamples.html). The file is located in the last row of the table on this page.
Do you use case studies as part of your training? How do you present them? What do you think of the video based example provided above?
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I would like to take your training observations one step further...how we develop and write health & safety programs must also change. Traditionally, we write a Hazcom Program, a PPE Program, a Lockout/Tagout Program, a Respiratory Protection Program, etc., as stand alone documents that get put in a nice big binder or are buried in a busy Intranet site and that's the last anyone ever sees of them. Why? Because the traditional way of writing these requires someone else to evaluate the task(s) at hand, figure out which Programs apply, and then figure out what parts of the applicable Programs apply. The someone is often a supervisor or manager with little H&S training much less interest. While it is fine and necessary to have the umbrella Programs for administrative purposes, the who, what, when and why really have to be pre-digested, similar to what you said in a previous entry on training, to relate directly to a specific task or job. Once this is done, then the training task, both informational and/or skills-based, becomes self-evident. Training modules where the instructor regurgitates a regulation is meaningless and a waste of time. Workers just want someone to figure out how and what they need to do, tell them how to get it done and then get out of the way.
Posted by: M McGowan | October 28, 2008 02:19 PM