Life Without Internet
Can you imagine life without the internet? How would businesses operate and maintain business? It's kind of scary how much we depend on the World Wide Web. However, the changes are improving our business everyday, especially the way we are able to teach and train.
Training Anywhere
The collision repair industry, as well as all other industries have always had to rely on traveling for training. Now with the technology we have available, employees can receive top notch training without ever leaving the body shop or dealership. Attendees can interact by asking questions and watch live demonstrations right in their shop conference room.
Skype Me
One of my previous co-workers called me the other day and was telling me how many of the auto technicians have a Skype line to ask questions and communicate with each other. Wow, that is instant access. I thought Google was fast, but a tech line that you can interact with at. Now this is another changer in business, training, or education.
Online
I-CAR realized the need for online training as well. On their website they have online training available. The technician can access this training 24/7, which makes it very convenient. I-CAR also allows the technicians to work at their own pace. I believe that they allow 30 days to complete the training and pass the tests. However, once you purchase the training you will be able to access the training at any time to refresh your training at a later time.
Virtual
With online technology, I foresee a lot more opportunities for training online. For example, I was on a committee for the college that I work for to examine a virtual world called second life. From a college's standpoint, this method made sense to me. This allows students to virtually travel to the college and sit in on lectures rather than actually driving to the school and attending the class face-to-face. In the virtual classroom the student is there along with other students and a teacher. Everyone can interact just as they would be able face-to-face. So how do you think this would work for collision repair training? I have to agree, it is quite different. However, times are changing fast and we better hop on board or be left behind.
Jump Aboard
With all of this said, I don't think we can hang our hat on the internet going away. What if something happens to the internet...? Well, we'll have to deal with that then. For now we need to look for more and new ways to blast collision repair training to the industry.
by Donnie Smith
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