Comments on Ditch the Outdated, Boring, Training from the 80s: Other Industries Embrace 3D Training, Why Not Pulp...

...interesting statement. I agree that the term C...

2010-01-13T14:04:19.041-08:00

...interesting statement. I agree that the term CBT as we probably know it (baby-boomers) brings back the hours of a monitone screen with headphones...(somebody pls shoot me!!)

The we get the advantages of Video/DVD...what a crock. Paying $399+ for a 14 minute training session?? I wish I made that amount ($1710.00) per hour as a safet trainer.

So, now we get to E-Learning and the future. Expensive for now, but well worth the price. True, none of the prices/time mentioned are worth an employees life or limb, but we have to do better and not just in=gnore it becuase its expensive.

Very interesting point. I've been involved in cre...

2009-07-01T08:40:21.465-07:00

Very interesting point. I've been involved in creating training for a few capital projects with enormous budgets (100's of millions of dollars) yet the actual budget for training on the new equipment is less than 1% of the budget. To me, this is like buying a brand new race car, spending all of your money to fine tune it and get it ready to go, then asking your little sister to drive the car because she happens to have just completed drivers education as a 9th grader.

Its a good question to ask, "will the pulp and pap...

2009-03-25T14:39:22.671-07:00

Its a good question to ask, "will the pulp and paper industry be the next industry to leverage this new technology to gain a competitive advantage? " Short answer "NO".
The pulp and paper industry is not as sophisticated as you might think. Generally speaking all capital projects in pulp and paper are stretched to the limit leaving little in the training budgets. Frequently the commissioning phase is dressed up as "training" and just as often, project overuns mean the equipment is handed over to production before the operating principles are fully worked out. Its pretty much a "trial and error" business.