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Hanson Aggregates and Tarmac (e-Learning)

 

The Need

 

Hanson Aggregates and Tarmac needed to educate its workforce about the importance of environmental management issues. The issues were wide ranging and included noise, dust, oil storage, land management and visual impact.

 

To complicate matters further the workforce was distributed across many sites and some of the workforce potentially had issues around basic skills.

The Solution

 

We designed and developed a 10 module course. It is very rich in audio and visuals (2D and 3D graphics, photos, and animations); text was used sparingly given the potential basic skills issues.

 

The e-Learning included fun elements and learning puzzles, which reinforce the learning points by challenging the learner not just to sit back and watch.

 

The modules included an end test and bespoke management system to enable managers to judge the employees understanding.

Outcomes

 

The course was developed a number of years ago, but it is still being updated and used to this day by new employees and contractors. The programme has enabled both Hanson Aggregates and Tarmac deliver high environmental standards.

 

Key to the programmes longevity was that it was designed around the needs of the target audience. And because the design incorporated a lot of interactive elements, it hasn’t got tired like the glorified presentations that masquerade as e-Learning.

 

Side Note: It is argued that e-Learning designers and learning-simulation

designers are a different breed (see our serious games page). While we agree, in part, with the hypothesis the design and development team of this environmental e-Learning was the same as our learning-simulations. Maybe the truth is that learning-simulation designers can develop e-Learning but not vice-versa.