YouTube: An Effective CAD Training Resource

Richard Cozzens

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Conference: 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Publication Date: June 10, 2012
Start Date: June 10, 2012
End Date: June 13, 2012
ISSN: 2153-5965
Conference Session: Design Tools and Methodology II
Tagged Division: Design in Engineering Education
Page Count: 9
Page Numbers: 25.1502.1 - 25.1502.9
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--22259
Permanent URL: https://peer.asee.org/22259
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Richard Cozzens Southern Utah University

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Richard Cozzens's background includes industry training and university training, and he is author of several CAD-related workbooks (reference publication). He has developed training material for the aerospace industry for the past 12 years. He has taught CAD classes in the university setting for 12 years. During the 12 years, he has developed online training for the courses taught. These online courses have been used through much of the world. He has also authored several CAD workbooks. One workbook in particular (CATIA V5 Workbook) has been an industry leading workbook for several years.

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YouTube: An Effective CAD Training ResourceIt is clear that technology is changing the way web-based and hybrid training in general ismanaged and accessed. An example, a recent article in Time Magazine (2010) Philip Rosedalestated “Anything that can be made and recorded becomes essentially free.” Anita Hamilton inanother Time Magazine article stated, “What’s certain is that the $4 billion college text bookmarket is ripe for a digital makeover.” The market is changing and will continue to change.Interestingly, I attended a conference recently “Solid Works World 2011” in San Antonio,Texas.” A conference like this usually has at least four to five web-based CAD training vendors.This year there was only one web-based CAD training vendor “SolidProfessor.” I believe thereare two main reasons for this decline in the market. The first is a mature and shrinking market.The second reason is what I refer to as the phenomena of CAD training using social mediaspecifically, YouTube. Training on YouTube is essentially free and the quality is getting betteras the content grows. Web-based CAD training is also being accepted as a viable method oftraining. At the “SolidWorks World 2011” conference, I had the opportunity to attend severaltraining sessions. In those training sessions, references to YouTube Channels were listed asexternal references and/or additional training for the specific SolidWorks tool being presented inthe session. January 2011, I attended a UACTE (Utah Association for Career and TechnicalEducation) Conference. At this conference, the training for all the state CAD instructorsincluded how to access and use free web-based training material, a majority of the training washosted on a YouTube Channel. All the instructors were eager to view and sample the training.Most of the instructors were eager to implement YouTube links into their class rooms.Keeping this in mind, in this paper I describe changes implemented in my web-based CADtraining used at a university level for students. I have also implemented these changes into thetraining outside of the university such as the SolidWorks training I conducted at ITSON (Insitutotechnologico De Sonora) in Ciudad Obregon, Mexico (May 2010). I am implementing thesechanges into my YouTube Channel and Canvas (Web-Based Classroom Management Software)accounts as well. This paper takes into account the results of the on-going research and alsocurrent trends in CAD training market. During this training, students have access to YouTubethrough web links listed in Canvas. During the semester, students will be interviewed and willalso be requested to give a feedback on the usefulness of this training.The contribution of this paper is to better understand the effectiveness and feasibility ofYouTube as an effective CAD training resource.ReferencesRosedale, P., “The Future of Content,” Time Magazine, November 11, 2010.Hamilton, A., “Global Business,” Time Magazine, November 11, 2010.

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Cozzens, R. (2012, June), YouTube: An Effective CAD Training Resource Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--22259

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