简介:
The cost of health and safety (H&S) failures to the UK industry is currently
estimated at up to £6.5 billion per annum, with the construction sector suffering
unacceptably high levels of work-related incidents. Better H&S education
across all skill levels in the industry is seen as an integral part of any
solution. Traditional lecture-based courses often fail to recreate the dynamic
realities of managing H&S on site and therefore do not sufficiently create
deeper cognitive learning (which results in remembering and using what was
learned). The use of videos is a move forward, but passively observing a video
is not cognitively engaging and challenging, and therefore learning is not as
effective as it can be. This paper describes the development of an interactive
video in which learners take an active role.While observing the video, they are
required to engage, participate, respond and be actively involved. The potential
for this approach to be used in conjunction with more traditional approaches
to H&S was explored using a group of 2nd-year undergraduate civil engineering
students. The formative results suggested that the learning experience
could be enhanced using interactive videos. Nevertheless, most of the learners
believed that a blended approach would be most effective.