TY - JOUR
T1 - Construction safety training via e-Learning
T2 - Learning effectiveness and user satisfaction
AU - Ho, Chun Ling
AU - Dzeng, Ren-Jye
PY - 2010/9/1
Y1 - 2010/9/1
N2 - In Taiwan, promoting knowledge of "Labor Safety" which relates to life and work right is very important. Safety training and learning effectiveness become essential issues of adult learning. To reduce the costs of educational training, enterprises have also started to aggressively introduce e-learning education training. Unlike the construction industry, few studies have investigated the effectiveness of e-learning and conventional learning. This study tested the effectiveness of the safety education to prevent falls by different learning modes used to assess safety behavior and learning effectiveness during the education training period. According to the average pass rate, satisfaction degree of course and total number of unsafe behavior, the e-learning mode improves learning effectiveness. Additionally, when the e-learning mode is introduced in the construction safety education training, the labor can use the teaching material more independently and multimedia system, such as animated teaching materials, case teaching, and repeated course learning, to reduce the error rate of operation, property loss rate, and light (heavy) injury. Under this condition, the e-learning mode is positively associated with the learning effectiveness of construction safety education training. High learning effectiveness promotes safe behavior during construction operations.
AB - In Taiwan, promoting knowledge of "Labor Safety" which relates to life and work right is very important. Safety training and learning effectiveness become essential issues of adult learning. To reduce the costs of educational training, enterprises have also started to aggressively introduce e-learning education training. Unlike the construction industry, few studies have investigated the effectiveness of e-learning and conventional learning. This study tested the effectiveness of the safety education to prevent falls by different learning modes used to assess safety behavior and learning effectiveness during the education training period. According to the average pass rate, satisfaction degree of course and total number of unsafe behavior, the e-learning mode improves learning effectiveness. Additionally, when the e-learning mode is introduced in the construction safety education training, the labor can use the teaching material more independently and multimedia system, such as animated teaching materials, case teaching, and repeated course learning, to reduce the error rate of operation, property loss rate, and light (heavy) injury. Under this condition, the e-learning mode is positively associated with the learning effectiveness of construction safety education training. High learning effectiveness promotes safe behavior during construction operations.
KW - Adult learning
KW - Applications in subject areas
KW - Improving classroom teaching
KW - Media in education
KW - Multimedia/hypermedia systems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77953127878&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.03.017
DO - 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.03.017
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77953127878
VL - 55
SP - 858
EP - 867
JO - Computers and Education
JF - Computers and Education
SN - 0360-1315
IS - 2
ER -