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We know that: when it comes to digital corporate training, news comes in all the time-at the speed of light. Not only that. The emergence of a hybrid work environment has led Learning & Development departments to search for solutions to deliver effective training to everyone – whether in the office or at home.
That of Digital Learning is an expanding universe, and if you want to explore it and keep up, we suggest you read on. This time we talk to you about Immersive Learning. ?
What is Immersive Learning?
Immersive Learning is a successful training strategy that can engage all workers in an organization, wherever they are, in the learning experience. This is achieved by giving access, for example, to conventional support systems-such as trainers, instructors, mentors, and onsite learning resources.
L&D teams therefore have a responsibility to bridge this gap to give everyone equal opportunities.
Immersive Learning: the benefits
If in traditional learning sessions there is always someone engaging learners, when it comes to digital training the situation becomes more complicated. Indeed, in such cases, the distractions of everyday life often do not encourage concentration and engagement.
Choosing Immersive Learning brings a number of benefits to your business, including:
- immersiveness, which by definition generates greater Learners’ interest and engagement;
- the promotion of social interaction, to alleviate the sense of confinement at home – that remote workers often experience;
- the improvement of Learners’ concentration through the reduction of external “noise.”
- the promotion of personalized and learner-centric learning;
- the increase in the retention level of learning;
- an increase in ROI for initiatives supported by immersive learning.
How can immersive technology contribute to learning?
Certainly, providing training that incorporates the latest technology – such as 360 video or VR – and thus is in line with a younger workforce allows employees to participate, update and learn by getting involved. And then, there’s the Metaverse, you know!
Bonus tip: knowing that one’s needs are taken into consideration makes one feel considered and respected, but also motivated to engage in the development of one’s personal and professional growth. ?
The results speak for themselves:
- Companies that adopt immersive technology experience a higher success rate: 38% of high-performing companies use at least one form of immersive technology throughout the company, compared to 23% of lower-performing companies.
- In addition, employees are enthusiastic: more than half say that immersive technology would finally make training more exciting.
Think about the potential in Customer Training or in Compliance Training, for instance!
Training soft skills with Virtual Reality
Nowadays there is a lot of talk about soft skills and how they should be learned and trained. Here Virtual Reality can come to our aid in creating an immersive learning experience that is useful in everyday life.
This type of technology makes learning easier in several ways:
- one has the impression of being in a real situation, so our brains process interactions differently and more incisively. “Learning from experience”: a classic.
- You create a safe space in which to practice, free of judgment and in which mistakes are allowed. One can train to combat one’s unconscious biases within the framework of a simulation without consequences.
- You reduce the time it takes to complete the training, and this has extremely positive effects on ROI.
- You increase engagement, and because of this-as time decreases-increases instead the amount of information you are able to learn and store in the long term.
- The more the training program grows, the more it will pay for itself.
Conclusions
Immersive Learning holds promise for corporate training, as it seems to be able to answer so many of the difficulties that currently still involve it.
- It has huge benefits, including increasing Learner engagement.
- It impacts training by decreasing timelines and facilitating learning.
- Virtual Reality is a great way to make corporate training modern, enhancing and optimizing it.
There is the evidence, so all that remains is to try it!
And now…diving deeper into corporate training by exploring self-directed learning.
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