Simulations: 3 Approaches
Hybrid Training Simulations
Visual Purple’s Hybrid Simulations are now available to all clients to include non-government clients for 2011.
This new type of training is proven through use in the U.S. government and combines the best elements of each of the Virtual World and Decision-Based formats.
Users are free to make choices within limits that serve the teaching and educational goals by restricting activities to decision options that either educate (i.e., transfer knowledge and information) or train (i.e., allow for the recognition, implementation, and/or practice of specific skills and abilities). Inefficiencies (such as the need to “walk” from place to place) are minimized or eliminated. The Virtual World elements provide a carefully crafted balance between guidance and unlimited freedom of choice to the trainee.
Hybrid Simulations are the best value proposition available to our clients. Though rich in story and content, production time and costs are averaging 30-50% less than decision-based simulations. Updating and deployment is easy through standard Learning Management Systems (LMS) with a lower cost to acquire and maintain than most conventional Computer Based Training (CBT).
Winning In Wireless (WiW) Trailer and Demo
This Reality Based Interactive Virtual World Training Simulation is a demonstration designed to show the value and abilities of using a virtual world environment to create a complex and in-depth training platform to teach team members key concepts and develop retention of several distinct Key Learning Objectives.
Virtual World Simulations
Visual Purple’s technologically advanced simulations take place in virtual world spaces. With over thirteen years of experience in converting and translating client educational materials and cultures into moving, story-rich interactive experiences, Visual Purple has sought and embraced the superior training opportunities offered by the advent of virtual worlds. Virtual worlds offer the foremost in freedom, interactivity and adaptability. The specially tailored environments ensure realistic interaction and imagery to promote full emotional and intellectual engagement in any scenario.
Visual Purple simulations are carefully crafted within the virtual world using Adult Learning Techniques and educational theory. Trainees follow realistic scenarios through environments of high-fidelity graphics while developing the knowledge base and critical thinking skills necessary to make decisions and take action. The trainees then meet the consequences of their choices, positive or negative. Meanwhile, a combination of proprietary technology allows supervisors to monitor proficiency, test for aptitude, and model complex business processes. Virtual worlds provide intuitive, persistent environments in which any approved trainee can, at any time or location, access the simulation and find it evolving. Alternately, virtual worlds may be configured to save and restore to a specific state so that training may be on demand. Collaboration or the ability to interact with other trainees is supported but more attractive to most clients are single player virtual world trainings enabled in a private, secure world replete with behaviorally intelligent non-player characters or NPCs.
Power of Story: Driven Trailer
An illustrative, fun story of what decision-based training is and the Visual Purple processes behind it all.
Decision-Based Training Simulations
Visual Purple’s decision-based training techniques make learning an active process that results in a different way of looking at your own decisions and experience. These differences are experienced by the trainees as they work through the various threads within the decision simulation. These new perspectives lead trainees to a deeper understanding of the processes involved in accomplishing their goals – a new awareness of “how to” – that is experienced through participation in the framework of the decision simulation.
The engaging nature of our decision simulations allows the user to fully assimilate the learning objectives, teaching points, and goals of training. Using the team approach to support individual learning will further increase the effectiveness of training objectives by bringing multiple perspectives to bear against a single situation. The increased immersion, interactivity, performance, and effectiveness will provide immediate positive behavioral changes in trainees and enhance overall performance through an improved training process.