What if you had a chance for a do-over? That’s right. What if you had an opportunity to keep learning from a training simulation until you passed? This do-over is more crucial than ever in supporting employees’ education on an important topic.
This article aims to help you identify the benefits of learning from our mistakes in VR Training.
After reviewing this article, you will better understand why virtual reality (VR) is the natural next step for the evolution of education (Source) by growing to $6.3 billion in 2022 (Source).
Today, HR Departments face an onslaught of challenges. These challenges come from every angle. These challenges include our pandemic, a tsunami of innovation, and a demographic shift in the workforce. It is more important than ever for HR Departments to no longer play it safe in employee development (Source).
As we advance into our next industrial revolution, our traditional training, where a teacher, lecturer, or trainer stands at the front of a class, is increasingly becoming a thing of the past (Source). The main reason is that traditional training depends on hearing, writing (Source), and remembering a series of facts for a test. We’re finding that consuming much information for a test is different from becoming educated (Source).
Traditional training offers a one-size-fits-all approach. This older model may not be the best approach as we advance, as every training student is unique in how they process and remember education (source).
This drawback is especially true for trainees predisposed to a visual and kinesthetic learning style (Source).
The Great Resignation Era started in April 2021. This month saw a mind-blowing 4 million job resignations. Yahoo News reported that 40% of workers are considering quitting their jobs (Source).
The challenges facing our HR leaders may seem insurmountable. It’s not how we view the challenge.
toPointC views this as a perfect time to introduce new tools that will help onboard and continually train employees by providing them with a safe VR environment to learn from their mistakes. This experiential learning approach is radically different from studying facts for a test.
VR training offers learners the opportunity for a do-over. That’s right. Our new immersive training tool tracks the trainee’s actions and inputs as they move through the 360 videos or VR simulation. This new measurement form can enhance a trainee’s ability to understand what they learned and what they can learn. In this form of testing, there is no pass or fail. It’s about getting back in there and learning from your mistakes.
We’ve all heard that repetition leads to perfecting training techniques and may significantly improve learning retention. Our immersive reality can provide the space to repeat activities and explore different outcomes based on the trainee’s actions and reactions (Source).
Most trainees learn by seeing and visualizing. It’s one thing to think about a dangerous environment. It’s another thing when the trainee feels like they’re in a hazardous environment. The visualization mirrors real life. Employees can reach greater levels of expertise in less time (Source).
Visualization is vital in supporting trainees to learn from their mistakes. These simulations can solve a problem from their point of view (POV) or another’s POV. This new insight can offer the trainee another opportunity to learn from their previous mistakes by looking at the problem through another set of eyes.
VR training is fun, engaging, interactive, and collaborative (Source). This learning model is unlike traditional hearing and written training models. A VR training curriculum will build a culture of training. Imagine your team is entirely thrilled about a new VR training module.
Additionally, this training can offer simulations that come from unexpected scenarios. As a result, trainees can jump into a simulation that adds pressure points from the last module. This training will take learning from your mistakes to a new level (Source). Doesn’t this sound more fun for your team than learning facts for a test?
Contact our team today at contact@topoint.com for a demonstration of what is now possible for your organization.