3C-The Future of Printing Technology Education (II)

Training in Atlanta and Georgia focuses on operator education and training because skilled operators are important to customers and their costs. After the manufacturer did not sell expensive equipment to the customer, he could not find the right person to operate the machine. Therefore, it is necessary to absorb, develop and train qualified operators. There is another important channel, Heidelberg College opened a multi-day prepress, printing and binding training course in the Deborah Center in North America.
This type of training facility is open all year round and is designated to use the facilities of the Hai Xie Bao. The advantage is that a skilled worker trained by Heidelberg can become familiar with the equipment instructions involved in the process within a few days. There is also a great advantage to training at Heidelberg College: The production volume of the printing plant, the factory, and the post-press processing do not have to be linked to the growth of the operator.
The competition is another good educational channel and has been highly evaluated. In the past two years, Heidelberg, USA has won some USA/VICA Awards for Printing Technology Skills, which was established for high school and junior high school summer students. Heidelberg offers equipment, technical support and installation. Students start printing from their own electronic files and submit the work for evaluation.
Last year, the winners of the championship won awards for participating in the GRAPH EXPO 2000 conference to watch the latest technology and meet with industry leaders. The school they represent can use PM46 free of charge throughout the year. This year Heidelberg will set up a 20-foot-by-twenty-foot stand in the Skill USA competition and use it as a recruiting platform throughout the game. The purpose of this idea is to absorb fresh blood for talents in Siebel and the entire printing industry. In the end, Heidelberg will separate the talents from GATF/PIA, NIPL, and the printing school.
The trade show has become another channel for printing technology education. Heidelberg Academy launched its first roadside show at PRINT97 and successfully presented its 1800 print experts with insights into the issues that are of the highest concern to the printing industry. Heidelberg then used this successful model for every major print trade show. The trade show is not a market description, a demonstration of a device, and its purpose is not to present a series of opinions on production and interest issues to everyone. The emphasis is on education and transmission of knowledge.
V. Online Education Online education is a good example of Heidelberg Print Media Academy providing online education through the establishment of a website. The ultimate goal is to enable people from all over the country to be proficient in the latest digital devices, even if they cannot personally participate in training in Heidelberg. The entrance to the site is an interactive map through which students can choose the courses they are interested in. The site is currently able to bring top technology to education through the five networks.
The stage of growth of Heidelberg College in 2001. Open some new courses to teach some new technologies, including online interaction and multimedia construction. Cyber-learning that has been able to clarify the full digital human workflow, CI3 solutions, and color workstations has started. With password protection, students can access this web-based interactive, downloadable training course. In this way, even students in Mississippi can easily participate in a lively program in the Atlanta or Los Angeles, and training will be convenient and effective for operators and printers. Ultimately, those training on software products can also be conducted in this way.
If students need reference materials or course materials, they can consult the Gutenberg Library located in the center of campus. Readers can download some of the library's collection catalogs, or download them from the university's publishing center.
To allow more people to get this kind of convenient online education, Heidelberg collaborated with the Rochester Institute of Technology on a new online project. The print production course for the managers of the industry is called Printing 101: Online. The project began in the spring of 2001, through a secure website, through a variety of forms in the course of a rigorous competition assessment, and finally awarded a qualification certificate.
Heidelberg College's consulting services are another area where management enters education, helping customers overcome difficulties and innovate.
In the next five years or longer, we will see more rigorous and more innovative education and training, and we will tend to have more channels and more choices. (Finish)