By PATRICK MERLINO
The fire and EMS industries are talking a lot about E-learning. Today’s young firefighter has grown up in the computer age, with gaming, Internet surfing, keeping track of friends through social media, and even online college courses. Classes and seminars taught online are a natural for him.
With E-learning, gone are the days of teaching classes multiple times, manual record keeping, and chasing down crews in the hallway regarding class attendance and compliance. Affordable online presentation builders and tools that post PowerPoint® presentations on the Web are now available. You can put tests online, have them automatically graded by the computer, and drop the results into the class and individual training records. Distances between stations, crew shifts, and volunteer schedule conflicts go away when the information they need is available on their station or home computer through the Web.
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