Training employees and students in vocational skills, often remotely, has never been more challenging. Today’s trainers need to engage learners sufficiently to retain their interest. To impart new physical or practical skills requires new and challenging learning techniques.
One of the newest and most exciting training aids, used by some of the UK’s largest and most successful companies, is ‘serious computer games’ technology. By creating a virtual reality environment, real-life situations can be brought to the PC or laptop, enabling students to practice skills in a safe home or office environment at their own pace, in their own time.
E-learning development now provides one of the fastest methods of studying and learning new skills. The use of computer-based learning with images and text creates memorable scenarios, easily remembered in any situation. It creates an exciting and visually rich environment through its graphical portrayal of a real situation and can be applied to virtually any scenario or industry sector.
Virtual reality elearning can be used to simulate the way equipment responds, the way machinery works or to replicate soft skills, such as human effect and consequence. It is flexible and can be used to train almost any skill in an engaging and stimulating way.
Experience is the best way to competent trainees and capable employees. Repeating a scenario over and over again on a computer based environment made to simulate a life-like situation, endorses the learning process, builds up knowledge and develops skills.
The greatest advantage of elearning is that it is fun and engaging. It relates directly to the users own experience of computers to achieve a productive and memorable end result.