BLENDED LEARNING
For several years now CAD-1 has been one of the highest rated instructor - lead training and mentoring programs for Autodesk software products in the United States. As a training and mentoring industry leader, CAD-1 felt that the total blended learning solution was the next logical step in high retention, high productivity learning methodology. For companies involved in technology change brought on by Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Geospatial innovations or perhaps wanting to become much more productive with traditional AutoCAD, blended learning holds an important key.
Blended learning is a three legged stool of training, mentoring and retention reinforcement.
- The foundation is instructor led training. This has been found to have the most profound initial effect in the process of learning new skills. The interpersonal contact and the explanation of the “why” something is done as well as the “how” is very important to most people’s learning styles.
- We use our e-learning leg of the stool to reinforce the instructor-lead training. The module’s searchable database provides quick access to concise how-to videos that explain program commands during the context of the work at hand.
- The third leg of the stool is CAD-1’s live via the web, “At Your Desk” mentoring. This leg of the stool helps with more complex problem solving issues, again in the context of project at hand, but when both “how”, “why” and a bit of “what” and even “where” are involved.
Combined, the three legs truly become blended learning and lead to much greater long term knowledge retention as well as faster and richer productivity gains from your investment in both software tools and talented people.
Studies have shown that blended learning is the most effective and productive formula for the highest return on investment from training investments. CAD-1’s blended learning solutions are highly scalable. From a one person firm to a global company, CAD-1’s blended learning tools can be sized to meet your needs. If you are a small firm you will want to take advantage of the economy of scale through CAD-1’s,
“AtYourDeskTraining.com” web site where you can access blended learning tools 24/7. If your firm has a large office or multiple offices, CAD-1’s industry-trained professionals can set up an internal blended learning site and customize content specifically for your firm’s standards and processes.
With CAD-1’s blended learning tools as part of your company culture, blended learning will have a huge and measurable business impact; you will be amazed on how your company can roll out new initiatives and have everyone in the company be on the same page simultaneously.