We’re back for another installment of our Innovation journey. During the latest Utility Working Conference, Accelerant Solutions led a track dedicated to innovative ways to improving and developing the workforce, with knowledge retention and transfer being key aspects of the message. In partnership with Tecnatom, S.A., the newest development in our PLANT™ authoring tool integrates […]
PLANT TM is transforming how the commercial nuclear power industry is engaging and training students. Traditional top-down educational strategies, such as instructor-led classes that focus on rote memorization, are not effective for every student. Cognitive psychology provides supporting evidence that addressing the three domains of instructional design learning (affective, psychomotor, and cognitive) provides an optimal […]
In an article published September 2019 on CORE™, we discussed the old way of conducting operator fundamentals training which included the following: Step #1: Prepare and revise training content for operator fundamentals. (2 weeks) Step #2: Class-up operator fundamentals by placing students in a classroom for 10 to 12 weeks and dedicating 1 to 2 instructors full-time to implementation. Step #3: Determine which students […]