Online Training Sucks

Sure, it’s easy to bash online training.
After all, just look at the criticisms: The quality is lower. It’s not engaging. It’s too easy to cheat. There’s no interaction with other students. It’s too difficult to learn the technology.
You might be tempted to buy into these popular misconceptions about online learning. It’s true that, just as with in-person learning, online learning can have its drawbacks. But when done correctly, online learning provides many of the same benefits as–and can even be superior to–in-person instruction.
While providing many of the same benefits as in-person instruction, online learning is also:
Less expensive: Online courses eliminate travel time and long commutes for students and instructors, and can reduce materials costs and other expenses on the provider’s end.
Training that doesn’t put you to sleep
Evergreen Safety Council is a leader in providing high quality, state- and regulatory agency-compliant online education programs. Our programs increase access to in-demand certifications and renewals for people who can’t attend classes in person. Like our in-person classes, all of our online offerings have been developed by our top-notch curriculum designers, with the input of industry professionals.
Cutting class or cutting edge?
Unlike many schools and training programs that have had to quickly adapt their in-person curriculum to accommodate new distance learning needs, Evergreen Safety Council’s online classes have been designed as stand-alone courses, maintaining the best parts of our popular in-person curriculum while incorporating characteristics specific to the online delivery method.
Courses built with online delivery in mind
This is an essential part of making an online course engaging, insightful, and organized. At Evergreen Safety Council, we teach with three optimized delivery methods of online training: Live streaming, self-guided and blended learning.
Live Streaming Delivery:
Our instructor-led online courses utilize video platforms to deliver an authentic and customizable learning experience to students, wherever they may be.
Our expert instructors encourage active learning with slides, short videos, and group activities, and they can listen and respond to students’ questions at any time. Advanced exam platforms and video proctoring systems ensure test-takers’ identities, monitor behavior, and prevent cheating.
Self-Guided Delivery:
Our self-guided online courses are no less rigorous, with lessons designed to meet current industry standards that students can access on their own time and complete at their own pace.
Blended Learning Delivery:
We also offer “blended” classes, featuring a hybrid model of online and in-person coursework.
In these classes, students typically progress through the online training portion at their own pace and meet in a classroom for practical, hands-on instruction and testing.
The Covid-19 crisis may have put a temporary hold on in-person gatherings, but it hasn’t diminished interest in obtaining professional certification in areas such as forklift operation, pilot car operation, and defensive driving skills. In fact, demand for these offerings in an online delivery format has only increased.