Automotive students & trainees

Challenges facing students

21st Century students

Today's students have grown up with technologies and have always been naturally "tech savvy". As a tech-intuitive, gaming-oriented generation, students tell us that they like to learn materials and skills in a dynamic and interactive manner.

Students can easily multi-task while studying and often prefer short, wiki-like, snippets of information. Automotive students, in particular, like a hands-on approach to learning over heavy text books and automotive manuals. Most students and professionals have deliberately chosen the automotive repair field because it is hands-on. The interactive and game-like modules of Argo have been designed to be stimulating and improve the learning experience. Argo is all about making learning not just highly effective, but fun!

A new approach to vocational training

Students and trainees tell us that they don't want to read heavy textbooks or to sit through long videos. They want to learn while having fun and working with their hands. What they want is some real interactive and hands-on training.

At Electude, we speak to automotive trainees and students all the time and they regularly complain about:

• the gap between what is read in the book and what is seen under the hood
• the gap between what is seen in a two-dimensional, static illustration and a three-dimensional, moving vehicle
• printed texts are out of date
• new technologies are coming out all of the time and the schools are struggling to keep up
• once they are working, the opportunity for additional training is often limited by the perception that it is too costly

Electude has taken these comments on board; and as a result, Argo offers students and trainees the following benefits:

• no more textbooks!
• apply gaming skills to learning
• it is about understanding, not memorizing
• speeds up the learning process and is a fun way to learn
• merges the theoretical with practical
• is an affordable way to be trained
• visually demonstrates how components and their inner workings function
• tracks each learning step and provides you with immediate results on your accomplishments
• you can go faster than your teacher
• practice when, where and as often as you like
• when you switch schools or go work, you can take your results and still use Argo
• build your own portfolio