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Best Technological Collaboration

Schneider Electric Asia Pte Ltd + ATOMAXR

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Digital system as a learning tool

While digital solutions typically drive change on their own, training centers and course providers need to be able to assess how technology will impact the institution’s operating model, business model (sustainable funding strategy), and educational ecosystem. To support new and growing business models, training center development requires a shift in administrative and academic technologies. Through online courses that designed with interactive animations, VR, 3D modeling, it can help students acquire the skills of stepping into other people’s shoes as they play, observe, and create, allowing them to develop empathy as they interact with the course material through Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR).

Protect student privacy

Integration tools are improving at a rapid pace, making digital training center integration easier and more seamless. End-user demands are driving centers to leverage improved processes and technologies. Students, for example, crave technologies like multifactor authentication, which allows them to better manage and protect their digital identities online.

Improved tools for managing student relationships

Better customer relationship management solutions for training centers can greatly improve the student experience from course enrollment to graduation. These tools provide additional student tracking and support capabilities. Technologies and digital systems are being redesigned to provide a unified experience that engages, educates, and connects students while providing long-term benefits to the center that has implemented digital solutions.

Digital System and Administration

When it comes to general administrative tasks and report generation, technology can be of great benefit to a training center’s staff. For centers that use cloud-based apps to manage their administrative duties, the time taken to produce reports can be significantly reduced as information can be easily entered via various mediums such as the staff’s iPad or smartphone Apps rather than having to write it down on paper. All student data can also be stored digitally with cloud apps, so you can access all the data you need at any time and from any location.

Introduction:

Virtual reality (VR) has leapt into the minds and hearts of many technology enthusiasts since it entered the gaming, aviation, entertainment and education industries. Studies suggest that the use of virtual reality in education can significantly enhance learners’ perception and empathy.

Capture attention

VR captures the attention of learners and keeps them focused on the subject. This has been proven in a number of research studies. Moving around and interacting with a three-dimensional environment and creating their own three-dimensional (3D) worlds is fascinating and is a challenging experience for learners.

Virtual reality can represent certain real-world scenarios and complex processes more accurately than traditional methods. VR allows you to view an object up close. VR also allows users to get ideas from new angles. When you look at a model of an object from the inside, top, or bottom, you will discover interesting facts and come up with ideas you have never seen or thought before. For example, if a molecule is displayed at VR, students can study it in depth and take a walk-through with the model, with 3D interaction projected on their eyes.

Encourage interaction

VR can change the way a learner engages with the subject matter. VR requires interaction. It encourages active participation by the learner instead of passive learning. The learner who interacts with the virtual world and sees the results immediately is encouraged to stay engaged, involved, and keep going to discover more. Virtual reality has the ability to model the real world to provide new perspectives. Learners who study the model often come to new realizations. If disabled people are unable to participate in an experiment or learning environment, they can do so with VR. During Science subject classes, they can conduct chemistry, biology, and physics lab experiments just like normal students. VR allows disabled students to explore the world at their own pace. While interacting with the virtual world, they can decide what they want to accomplish thanks to the technology of VR. VR also offers disabled students the opportunity to have experiences in a time period that is not limited by a traditional class schedule.

 

Practical approach and distance learning

A constructivist approach to learning is facilitated by VR. VR allows users to have hands-on experience with new technologies. A new employee can be trained by simulating a new procedure with new equipment. VR can also enable distance learning. VR allows some curricula that were previously difficult to teach via distance learning (or remote learning) to be taught in this way.

Cost Reduction

Flight simulators have been used to train pilots for more than 80 years. In that time, there have been several major advances in aviation technology. Virtual reality (VR) is on the verge of ushering in a new era of professional pilot training that will have far-reaching implications for the aviation industry.

A virtual reality (AR) pilot training system has the potential to significantly reduce the cost of flight training while reducing the cost burden on airlines. It is even possible to use it to train aircraft mechanics as well.

With the December 2021 deadline looming for Skillsfuture funded courses,
many providers may have unknowingly subscribed to higher priced TMS services which are messy and confusing to use.Terms like  ‘appointed by SSG’ have been thrown around for such services, adding to the confusion over which services are allowed to be used to interface with TPG.
 
Allow us to clarify some myths:
  1. You can only subscribe to 1 TMS service 
    Not true.
    You are free to choose more than 1 TMS provider, some TPs have 3 or more vendors in their list.
  2. SSG has already pre-selected TMS for the TPs
    Not true.
    There are currently more than 10 TMS systems which have successfully completed linkage to the TP Gateway and SFC systems.
  3. I have already signed up with a TMS subscription service and I’m not sure if I’m bound to the contract.
    Don’t use = no charges.
    As you have only signed up for a subscription service, like many others SaaS out there, you are free to subscribe to more than 1 service. It’s a subscription anyway.

Good news, it’s not too late to use an actual training management system like EdcoreTMS.

We’re ready to listen and actually streamline your work processes by integrating with payment gateways, invoicing, and SMS systems.
In fact, our TMS also comes with an LMS for your student’s ease of access.Each TP also gets your own enrolment portal, which will add to your overall web presence.CONTACT US FOR A DEMO
 
EdcoreTMS. It’s just better.
Schools and exam boards face a major challenge in thinking about how exams and assessments are delivered to students in this age of distance learning and pandemic social distancing. More than ever, educational institutions should rely on technology to ensure that exams are delivered successfully and authentically.
 
Digital exams are much more than just a practical tool for education centers. It’s about giving learners the best possible assessment tool and allowing them to demonstrate their competence in a credible and reliable way. While universities have been pioneering digital assessment in many situations for some time, Polytechnics, secondary schools and other educational institutions are increasingly following suit.
 
Digital exams and assessments, as opposed to paper and pencil, offer teachers a much better insight into the learning process and how students approach tasks in general. Learners also benefit from more engaging tests and, in many cases, quick feedback on their performance so they can act quickly to close knowledge gaps.
 
How to conduct a reliable digital assessment?
• Choosing the right assessment tool
There are many forms of digital assessment, such as project-based assessment, performance-based activities, long essay tests, and other forms of assessment. Each of them serves a specific purpose. Selecting the appropriate assessment tool or approach is critical to performing the digital assessment reliably.
 
• Choosing the right objective to test
Digital assessments should be used primarily to determine learning outcomes. Students should be able to demonstrate what they know and, more importantly, what they can achieve as learning outcomes (skills). A successfully implemented digital assessment should cover both low-level learning outcomes (retrieval of information) and high-level learning outcomes (analysis of information).
 
It is difficult to create excellent online digital assessments. We need to understand why we are doing an assessment. Learning outcomes and instructional activities need to be linked to assessments. Assessments need to be clearly articulated, comprehensively revised, and aligned with learning objectives and instructional activities. Most importantly, we need to use the right assessment tool to assess the appropriate skills. Even the best technology cannot save a poorly designed assessment if these standards are not met.