NEW TECHNOLOGY - A NEW APPROACH TO FURTHER VOCATIONAL TRAINING?
Drake, Merja; Kauppinen, Raine (2021)
IATED, International Association of Technology, Education and Development
2021
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As a result of the rapid changes in the labour market and available career paths, people need to reshape their skills and competencies. The World Economy Forum has calculated that new technology will transform over 1 billion jobs worldwide in the next decade, and as such, there is a tremendous need to reskill the workforce. Until now, further vocational training of the workforce has taken place in educational institutions. Now, to a greater extent, big companies such as Google, Apple, Hilton, and start-ups especially, are training their own workforce. So, what is the role of higher education in the future? How could company and higher education institutions work in co-operation to reskill and train the workforce using new technology?
Virtual technology (VR) is one of the emerging technologies that is changing the training landscapes both in companies and in educational institutions. Previous research has shown VR’s potential in the educational domains, especially in medicine, aviation, arts, journalism and entertainment, but its full potential in work-based education or further vocational training and in the process by which collaborating companies and higher education institutions design, develop and create VR-based training materials have not been researched to an adequate extent.
In this paper, we discuss how companies in health care, hospitality, the home furniture and home accessories industry, the cleaning services sector, and higher education (HE) can collaboratively develop, produce and test vocational training materials created using VR technology. Our objective is to understand VR’s potential as a tool for work-based training and to design the model and process of how to create training material collaboratively using the living lab method. We have chosen our example industries because they offer suitable entry-level positions to immigrants with a lack of language skills. The other challenge is that the professional background of immigrants varies quite a lot. Health care, hospitality, furniture and home accessories industries, and the cleaning services sector are suffering abour shortages, and at the same time, we are facing the challenge of inadequate employment of migrants.
Virtual technology (VR) is one of the emerging technologies that is changing the training landscapes both in companies and in educational institutions. Previous research has shown VR’s potential in the educational domains, especially in medicine, aviation, arts, journalism and entertainment, but its full potential in work-based education or further vocational training and in the process by which collaborating companies and higher education institutions design, develop and create VR-based training materials have not been researched to an adequate extent.
In this paper, we discuss how companies in health care, hospitality, the home furniture and home accessories industry, the cleaning services sector, and higher education (HE) can collaboratively develop, produce and test vocational training materials created using VR technology. Our objective is to understand VR’s potential as a tool for work-based training and to design the model and process of how to create training material collaboratively using the living lab method. We have chosen our example industries because they offer suitable entry-level positions to immigrants with a lack of language skills. The other challenge is that the professional background of immigrants varies quite a lot. Health care, hospitality, furniture and home accessories industries, and the cleaning services sector are suffering abour shortages, and at the same time, we are facing the challenge of inadequate employment of migrants.