Siemens' "Blended Learning" On-Line Courses Provide Solid Foundation Before Classroom Training
Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. offers companies a way to ensure that each of their employees has the fundamental knowledge and skills needed to succeed in specific Siemens classroom training courses. Siemens has redesigned the classroom courses to encompass a Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) learning environment, providing a hands-on learning experience that requires students to be better prepared beforehand. To that end, Siemens has developed a series of “Blended Learning” modules that serve as prerequisites to the classroom training.
Accessed on-line through the Siemens Web site, the Blended Learning modules provide solid introductions to key terminology, concepts and architecture which will be used in the subsequent classroom courses. Blended Learning tutorials include: “PLCs for Beginners”; “STEP7”; “S7PROFIBUS”; “S7 ETHERNET”; “S7PROFINET”; “MicroMaster 420”; and “ProTool Pro."
Each Blended Learning module concludes with a self-guided quiz that allows the student to measure their own progress without their score being made available to anyone else. As Siemens says, these modules are a great opportunity for students to “jump-start” their learning experience.
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