The British Resuscitation Council are doing a fantastic job in interactive App-based and On-line training, having just released a much improved version of the LifeSaver games, and a new-to-the-world LiveSaverVR version.
Dare I predict that it will be only a few short years before all skills-based annual re-certification will be VR based.
Rule 303 said:
The British Resuscitation Council are doing a fantastic job in interactive App-based and On-line training, having just released a much improved version of the LifeSaver games, and a new-to-the-world LiveSaverVR version.Dare I predict that it will be only a few short years before all skills-based annual re-certification will be VR based.
Cripes. I hope not.
mollwollfumble said:
Cripes. I hope not.
Why so?
I reckon Virtual or Augmented Reality has the potential to be much more effective (as a training tool) than almost anything other than actual reality.
Rule 303 said:
mollwollfumble said:
Cripes. I hope not.
Why so?
I reckon Virtual or Augmented Reality has the potential to be much more effective (as a training tool) than almost anything other than actual reality.
In the mining sector, virtual reality simulators are heavily used for equipment operator training largely because there is such a high marginal cost associated with training due to losses in productivity.
VR systems are also heavily used for emergency and rescue training
Related articles of interest.
Virtual Reality Companies: Top 20 VR Companies to Watch
The complete guide to virtual reality in 2016
Applications Of Virtual Reality
“You’ll go where I go, defile what I defile, eat who I eat.”
Maybe as a training aid. But not for assessment. If you are going to be certified that you can pump and blow a body, you need to actually physically do it.
buffy said:
Maybe as a training aid. But not for assessment. If you are going to be certified that you can pump and blow a body, you need to actually physically do it.
Agree. People will do a lot of things in VR that they wouldn’t do in real life.
VR and AR can include the use of analogues (like a CPR mannequin, as in the link given above) and can provide individual assessment and coaching and recording in ways that no human trainer / assessor could hope to.
Compared to the way some training is conducted and assessed in Australia right now, these technologies present an enormous improvement in validity, reliability, flexibility and fairness.
Hmm, so you still need access to a mannequin? I don’t reckon a pillow cuts it…
buffy said:
Hmm, so you still need access to a mannequin? I don’t reckon a pillow cuts it…
There’s a lot of stuff that doesn’t cut it…
A friend recently borrowed our mannequins to do an online update. He had to teleconference his assessment.
buffy said:
A friend recently borrowed our mannequins to do an online update. He had to teleconference his assessment.
Even that, clunky and resource hungry though it might be, is better than some of our current training modes. I’m seeing a rise in practices that have no validity at assessment, let alone any flexibility or accommodation of people with low language/literacy/numeracy.
I did course with a major national first aid provider yesterday (by way of observation) that was just awful. Pull qualification and urgent major audit kind of awful.
We’ve still got a long way to go…
Rule 303 said:
buffy said:A friend recently borrowed our mannequins to do an online update. He had to teleconference his assessment.
Even that, clunky and resource hungry though it might be, is better than some of our current training modes. I’m seeing a rise in practices that have no validity at assessment, let alone any flexibility or accommodation of people with low language/literacy/numeracy.
I did course with a major national first aid provider yesterday (by way of observation) that was just awful. Pull qualification and urgent major audit kind of awful.
We’ve still got a long way to go…
I did my last CPR update with the company that is equivalent to an umbrella. I was very, very not happy. I told our association to get a new provider. Not once, not even once, was the DRABCD thingy shown on the screen. And I had to assist the oldest participant, who didn’t know what to do at all, because the teacher wasn’t watching what was going on. It was before I had demonstrated for Mr buffy’s classes, but I had helped the local Ambulance Community Officers do their practising before their re-accreditation testing. And I’d got a good long time on the chest compressions while one of them got his oxygen mask technique right. Just as well I’m still reasonably fit!
>>let alone any flexibility or accommodation of people with low language/literacy/numeracy<<
Mr buffy is big on this too. He has done some work with disaffected youth in this area so he’s had to be very flexible. He’s also good with the functionally illiterate – he will do an entire oral assessment with them if necessary. Perhaps as he says, we are not making a living from it, we can afford to be slower. But it’s a seriously important skill and it is possible to teach most people. Goodness me, St John cadets in the 70’s did demonstrations.
how about drone pilots in military