Embracing Virtual Technology to Assess Practical Skills
With a powerful assessment and compliance suite already under its belt, Enterprise Study is identifying new methods to enable organisations to accurately test the practical skills of their workforce.
A recent article in The Daily Telegraph entitled 'Where is the wisdom in sitting 15 GCSE's?', provides a great testament to encouraging the use of online Virtual Worlds, as an alternative method to regularly assess students skills in an engaging and easy to access way. Though still incorporating elements of a traditional classroom-based approach, one of the key benefits of introducing online assessments is to ensure that a more standardised test is delivered, removing any variability from the assessor.
Working with partner HostAVirtualEvent (HVE), Enterprise Study is now adopting these tools in a similar way to identify how virtual assessments results can be consistently managed through its market leading Learning Management System, enabling organisations to maximise the efficiency of their workforce. Reinforcing this are a number of bolt-on configurable Modules designed to help learner’s access content which include; Classroom Learning, eLearning, Video Learning and Virtual Classroom Learning.
To complement Enterprise Study's powerful suite of LMS modules, a Game based Learning Module is to be scoped in 2014 which will allow the scheduling of scenarios and monitoring of the results from Games and Simulations launched in a HVE World.
Jim Piggot, CEO of HostAVirtualEvent comments: “the potential presented to organisations using the Virtual World technology is massive and now that the price point has made it affordable for small as well as large organisations, we are seeing a very diverse range of requirements being scoped. The opportunity to innovate using the assessment in a virtual environment is very exciting and we are delighted to be working with such a forward thinking and user centric company like Enterprise Study. The team from HVE will be at Learning Technologies in January 2014. At this exhibition we will share our experience with organisations looking to embrace new tools to evidence compliance in a cost effective way.”
Steve Hurcombe, Technical Director at Enterprise Study also notes: “this presents a fantastic opportunity for our customers and from a developer’s perspective, providing an easy to use application that embraces these new technologies in a safe and secure way is very exciting. We are delighted to be working with the HVE team.”