New Technology and Hands-On Applications Improve Training
The demand for technology-driven education is rising, and many colleges and vocational schools are pushing their programs to find new ways to further incorporate technology and hands-on experience into instruction. Fortis College, with approximately 37 branches across the nation, is revamping its HVACR program, and one of its first changes was adding more interactive CD-ROM training and hands-on training. Students had always performed the basics advocated by most career technical education textbooks, but Robert Crothers, the man brought in to make the changes, wanted the program to be more state-of-the-art.
“We took nice and pretty and made it more functional,” said Crothers, Fortis’ HVACR program director at the Indianapolis branch. The 60-week program’s revamp is now being reviewed for inclusion in other HVACR programs at Fortis’ dozens of branches in 13 states.