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Royal Mail’s dog safety VR training

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Royal Mail’s James Barton and Sponge’s Kate Pasterfield discuss Royal Mail’s virtual reality dog safety training.

James Barton, Online Learning Manager, Royal Mail and Kate Pasterfield, Chief Innovation Officer, Sponge
James Barton, Online Learning Manager, Royal Mail and Kate Pasterfield, Chief Innovation Officer, Sponge 

Royal Mail’s virtual reality dog safety training has helped Royal Mail to significantly reduce the number of dog attacks on its workers.

The programme was developed in 2018 by Sponge and at the recent Learning Technologies event in London Learning News was fortunate to be able to interview James Barton, Online Learning Manager at Royal Mail and Kate Pasterfield, Chief Innovation Officer at Sponge, to find out more about it.

We asked James and Kate why virtual reality was selected for the training and about the challenges in creating VR learning materials.

Watch James and Kate’s interview here on Learning News and catch up with all of the Learning News interviews from Learning Technologies 2019.