Leveraging Collaborative Learning Theory for Online Technical Training in Transportation

BY STEVE SHAFFER, Mass Transit

A significant, integral and most important part of the rebuilding as suggested will be the refreshing and retraining of transit’s incumbent workforce, together with the training of new recruits with the most efficient and effective training technologies available to the management of our transit agencies. Technology continues to transform education and training in ways unforeseen by its inventors. Learners tutored one-on-one score significantly higher on end-of-course achievement tests than learners taught in one-on-many classrooms. Travel costs and lost productivity (e.g., employee and instructor time away from their jobs) were cited as the two biggest and most expensive barriers to effective training (TRB, Report 84, 2003). By enabling employees to take training in their workspaces and to schedule it around other tasks, the return on investment of online computer-based training increases dramatically.

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