Auto Industry Training Series: What is Your Technician Training Style?
What should your technician training program look like?
As you develop an appropriate technician training program for your workspace, there are many resources to consider, and many directions to go. If you are deciding what your automotive technician training or technical training program should look like, we are here to help you define an ideal structure and format— and find resources that fit.
Our Auto Industry Training Series is designed to offer insight and guidance on crafting a technician training program, depending on the needs of your workspace and your preferred training styles. Read on and hopefully you can feel more informed when choosing the right resources and priorities for your program.
What is Your Technician Training Style?
- Lectures & Demonstrations
- Online & Interactive Training
Lecture & Demonstration Led Training
If you endorse technician training via lectures and demonstrations, you may opt for more independent style training in supplement to the lectures and demonstrations you offer. This would allow you to offer online or self-guided resources that allow technicians to study and learn industry best practices on their own time. The flexibility of self-paced, independent, mechanic training can attract more technicians to your facility.
CDX’s Online Resources offer hundreds of videos and text-to-speech eBook capabilities, perfect for self-guided training in the various automotive and truck & equipment fields.
Online & Interactive Focused Training
If you prefer introducing concepts to technicians through hands-on experiences and active learning methods, then an interactive training style is likely the best fit for your program. Interactive training values time spent in shop actively working with vehicles, so trainees will need ample time to shadow and learn on-the-job.
Learning resources that can supplement this hands-on training style include interactive animations and 3D animations, which let you see textbook content come off the page and apply concepts through active problem-solving. CDX Online offers hundreds of videos and animations that help prepare technicians for hands-on work and auto mechanic certification in various automotive or truck & equipment positions.
Complete with robust online components, CDX Online is the perfect resource to implement digital instruction to an automotive course and apply remote learning solutions to your curriculum. To learn more about our advanced auto training resources for your classroom, click the option for Online Access on many of our product catalog pages below.