ASME’S Course Builder Works for Seasoned Trainers and Those Just Starting to Create Self-Guided Courses
ASME’S Course Builder Works for Seasoned Trainers and Those Just Starting to Create Self-Guided Courses
Skilled mechanical engineers and experienced training organizations now have an easy way to work with ASME and pass on what they know to a ready-made community of learners.
Skilled engineers who seek to share their expertise and experience find they’re often called upon to coach, informally or as a mentor, their coworkers, colleagues, or students.
Many professionals embrace the opportunity, since it's typically the least labor and time-intensive way of sharing their knowledge and applied skills in a real-world setting. These individuals seek to contribute to the future development of mechanical engineering and pass on practical, job-relevant skills to a community of learners that could benefit from self-paced courses.
Meeting the needs of professionals
Arveng Training & Engineering had its own courses developed before working with ASME’s Course Builder. Its mechanical engineering courses “were designed to meet the needs of ME professionals”, explained Autumn Gerami, training advisor for Arveng. She noted that the courses ultimately shared have a “strong focus on practical applications and alignment with industry standards.”
With over 20 years of experience, Arveng knows about engineering and training. It is working with ASME to offer 16 courses to the Society’s learning community.
ASME currently offers 12,000 learners from 145 countries more than 500 technical courses, and Gerami explained that the collaboration has allowed her organization to broaden the reach of its content and training.
For those individuals and organizations that have already developed training, like Arveng, working with ASME is as easy as uploading courses to the ASME platform.
However, there are still others who want to invest in their engineering profession by sharing their expertise; they just don’t know where to start. These professionals—who have not yet developed courses—are now able to access the ASME Course Builder Toolkit to explore course design best practices, compliance documentation, and technical requirements.
This invaluable resource is perfect for individuals or groups that need to develop courses from scratch.
Seasoned trainers can learn too
For organizations like Arveng with pre-developed content, the work with ASME focuses on adapting it to ASME’s Learning Management platform. “This process was smooth overall,” reported Gerami. “The Society provides a clear structure”.
And when looking at ASME’s process of gathering learner’s response (including testing and updating, as well as performance monitoring) she said the tools “helped us gather valuable feedback, which we used to identify areas for improvement.”
One part of the process that particularly stood out for Arveng was the guidance that helps trainers estimate time dedication per module. This “was particularly useful,” Gerami explained. “Combined with student feedback on their actual time spent, [the information] helped us fine-tune our estimates.”
With ASME’s help, Arveng was “able to more accurately estimate the time commitment required for each section of a course,” she added. Always challenging, this aspect of training can vary widely since the time commitment needed by one student can vary between learners. “But it’s essential to provide realistic expectations for each training,” Gerami said.
Further, ASME helped Arveng to “establish clearer, more engaging learning objectives tailored to ASME’s audience,” Gerami explained. This module inc toolkit could serve as a strong starting point for organizing and structuring course content since it “simplifies what can otherwise be a daunting task, especially for those new to course development.”
Arveng’s overall goal, and motivation for working with ASME, was to offer proven training that meets “the highest standards of quality and relevance for mechanical engineers,” she explained. And such an arrangement allows Arveng to leverage ASME’s expertise and enhance the credibility of its own training materials and course trainers, to “improve learner outcomes” across a truly global audience, Gerami added.
ASME has courses covering over 30 topics and subtopics and is now accepting applications to collaborate, develop, and launch accredited online courses. Topics that ASME are looking for courses on include BPVC, B31, professional skills/development, welding, metallurgy, and design, just to name a few!
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Many professionals embrace the opportunity, since it's typically the least labor and time-intensive way of sharing their knowledge and applied skills in a real-world setting. These individuals seek to contribute to the future development of mechanical engineering and pass on practical, job-relevant skills to a community of learners that could benefit from self-paced courses.
Meeting the needs of professionals
Arveng Training & Engineering had its own courses developed before working with ASME’s Course Builder. Its mechanical engineering courses “were designed to meet the needs of ME professionals”, explained Autumn Gerami, training advisor for Arveng. She noted that the courses ultimately shared have a “strong focus on practical applications and alignment with industry standards.”
With over 20 years of experience, Arveng knows about engineering and training. It is working with ASME to offer 16 courses to the Society’s learning community.
ASME currently offers 12,000 learners from 145 countries more than 500 technical courses, and Gerami explained that the collaboration has allowed her organization to broaden the reach of its content and training.
For those individuals and organizations that have already developed training, like Arveng, working with ASME is as easy as uploading courses to the ASME platform.
However, there are still others who want to invest in their engineering profession by sharing their expertise; they just don’t know where to start. These professionals—who have not yet developed courses—are now able to access the ASME Course Builder Toolkit to explore course design best practices, compliance documentation, and technical requirements.
This invaluable resource is perfect for individuals or groups that need to develop courses from scratch.
Seasoned trainers can learn too
For organizations like Arveng with pre-developed content, the work with ASME focuses on adapting it to ASME’s Learning Management platform. “This process was smooth overall,” reported Gerami. “The Society provides a clear structure”.
And when looking at ASME’s process of gathering learner’s response (including testing and updating, as well as performance monitoring) she said the tools “helped us gather valuable feedback, which we used to identify areas for improvement.”
One part of the process that particularly stood out for Arveng was the guidance that helps trainers estimate time dedication per module. This “was particularly useful,” Gerami explained. “Combined with student feedback on their actual time spent, [the information] helped us fine-tune our estimates.”
With ASME’s help, Arveng was “able to more accurately estimate the time commitment required for each section of a course,” she added. Always challenging, this aspect of training can vary widely since the time commitment needed by one student can vary between learners. “But it’s essential to provide realistic expectations for each training,” Gerami said.
Further, ASME helped Arveng to “establish clearer, more engaging learning objectives tailored to ASME’s audience,” Gerami explained. This module inc toolkit could serve as a strong starting point for organizing and structuring course content since it “simplifies what can otherwise be a daunting task, especially for those new to course development.”
Arveng’s overall goal, and motivation for working with ASME, was to offer proven training that meets “the highest standards of quality and relevance for mechanical engineers,” she explained. And such an arrangement allows Arveng to leverage ASME’s expertise and enhance the credibility of its own training materials and course trainers, to “improve learner outcomes” across a truly global audience, Gerami added.
ASME has courses covering over 30 topics and subtopics and is now accepting applications to collaborate, develop, and launch accredited online courses. Topics that ASME are looking for courses on include BPVC, B31, professional skills/development, welding, metallurgy, and design, just to name a few!
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Discover more from ASME
New Article: Turning Engineering Expertise into Global Impact
New Podcast: Engineering and Design Justice
Workforce News: Engineering the Future Takes All of Us
Skilled mechanical engineers and experienced training organizations now have an easy way to work with ASME and pass on what they know to a ready-made community of learners.
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