Going Digital

The idea of going digital is to make it easy to maintain content and for learners to interact with the lab. Being a digital tool, e-learning gives the oppotunity to learn everywhere at any time and thereby utilising the ideas of going digital. The main reasons for implementing e-larning are:

  • A significant amount of content can be delivered to a large number of learners at the same time
  • Content can be reused to different learners in the future
  • The availability of content is very easy
  • Learners have limited daily time to devote to learning
  • Learners are required to develop homogeneus knowledge on the topic

Creating consensus of how to improve workflow is key to improve safety and therefore it is important to make sure that everyone who intend to use the laboratory is up-to-date. This also reduce supervisors/instructors time spent on delevering the same message over and over agian to a small audience at a time. However, e-learning is in this case not a course but rather a general introduction to the lab, the machines in the lab, the chemicals and the behaviour while working in the lab. In these IT-times information is doused over students and sometimes it is a lot to take in at once – newer generations are well sutied for working with computers and the internet rather than reading a book because it is simply not fast enough. To put in other words; going to classes or taking a seminar is just to old school. To accommondate this it is approached by including learners through the tools of a cell phone and the internet. Cutting down the information to its bare bones and serve it fast in a language everyone understands. Time is dear but safety is most valuable in that regard, so if newcomers are already prepared they automaticly take responsibility. The preparation can be as simple as mentioning this website to them before they visit the site.

 

If they want to access information of the equipment or learning about it while in the lab, in case they forget how it works, QR-codes are added to the machines so keep themselves up to date and include themselves in learning and maintaining knowledge and responsibility. This saves a lot of time and withholds a certain level of safety standard. Win-win, rigth?

Source material: E-learning Methodologies