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• Working in the Classroom - A Vision of Miner Training in the 21st Century
  11/1/2008 - Conference papers
  This article discusses how narrative-based training has evolved and is likely to continue changing in the future using the Underground Coal Mine Map Reading Training (UCMMRT) developed by NIOSH.
• Virtual Reality to Train and Assess Emergency Responders
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A research project designed to determine optimal use of virtual reality (VR) technologies for training and assessing mine emergency responders.
• Effective Group Training With Computer-Based Virtual Environments
  6/1/2016 - Non-peer reviewed journal articles
  This article by NIOSH discusses researcher observations of mine emergency escape trainers as they used virtual environment software for group training in decision making and problem solving.
• Enhancing Mine Workers' Self-escape by Integrating Competency Assessment into Training
  6/1/2015 - Reports of Investigations
  NIOSH researchers completed in-depth interviews with nine coal mine safety trainers about teaching and assessing Self-escape competencies (SEC). Based on the results recommendations are provided to improve training, assessment, and maintenance of SEC.
• Education and Training
  10/7/2014 - Research areas
  Education and Training Topic Page
• Tell Me a Story: Using Stories to Improve Occupational Safety Training
  7/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This article discusses the social and cultural power of stories, and how they have been used to develop training for skilled blue-collar workers.
• Tell Me A Story... Using Stories to Improve Occupational Safety Training
  6/1/2007 - Conference papers
  This paper discusses the social and cultural power of stories, and how they have been used to develop training for skilled blue-collar workers.
• Job Training Analysis: A Process for Quickly Developing a Roadmap for Teaching and Evaluating Job Skills
  8/1/2006 - Information Circulars
  This report describes a process called job training analysis (JTA). Its main use is to structure skills training at the jobsite by identifying duties, tasks, and steps and the reasons why those job components are important.
• Tell Me a Story: Why Stories are Essential to Effective Safety Training
  8/1/2005 - Reports of Investigations
  Adult learning theories, social learning theories, mentoring, and storytelling were all employed in the development of a series of safety training videos that have become very popular in the mining industry. This Report of Investigations describes the t...
• Tell Me a Story: Using Narrative to Teach Safety to Skilled Blue-Collar Workers
  3/1/2003 - Conference papers
  A discussion of how training videos created to get safety messages to miners were developed, how "master miners" and story lines were chosen, and how the resulting videos have been received in the mining industry.