Time and technology both have the power to transform people. Emerging technologies like AI, VR, AR, and ML have started to reshape the education and training industries. Gone are the days when both students and teachers were trying hard just to get good grades. With these emerging technologies, learning can be more personalized and result-oriented in terms of the growth of the individual.
These technologies are about to bring a revolution in the whole education industry, not only at the school level but at the corporate level as well. With the help of AI, the learners would be able to try their hands in real-life problems rather than just being limited to theoretical knowledge.
These technologies have benefits for both the parties; i.e. for educators and learners. Much of the load of educators has been reduced by the use of these technologies, and they have more time to focus on the growth of their students. These technologies have made learning more personalized and easy to access.
Let’s see how these technologies are creating an impact on the corporate training industry.
Future of learning for corporate industry
The secret ingredient for the success of any business lies in the continuous upgradation of skills of its employees. Due to the emergence of new technologies employees do find some challenges which can be bridged by training. For business growth, transformation learning is critical and relevant. As discussed earlier, learners prefer the practical aspect of learning rather than just theoretical knowledge. This can be achieved by learning by doing, and these new technologies are supporting that.
These technologies allow the organization to accelerate its growth by improving employee performance. These technologies benefit learners by adding context, relevance, and personalization to the learning experience.
Now, let’s see how the use of these technologies can add depth to learning:
1. Growth in knowledge leads to change in behavior and business outcome
The purpose of providing training is to achieve some behavior change that can add value to the growth of the business.
These new technologies not only help us to make training more interesting and engaging but also help to measure the outcome. With the use of different software, we can measure the outcome more effectively and at a granular level and optimize the training for every candidate.
2. Improving feedback experience:
Right feedback at the right time helps employees to improve. Sometimes feedback doesn’t deliver the nature of the feedback, which confuses the employees more. In this case, several technologically advanced tools can help you to get the exact nature of the feedback. For example, facial recognition can help to detect furrowed brows, a voice analyzer to detect the tension in voice, and wearable to detect pressure in posture.
Such tools help employees to know the exact nature of feedback so that they can take the right action at the right time.
3. Era of unparalleled opportunities for employees
With the help of AR and VR organizations will be able to create immersive learning experiences. This immersive learning experience will give you a complete picture of whom and what’s around you. Soon with the new developments, the learners can experience touch, temperature, pressure, and spatial awareness within the immersive learning environment
4. 3D immersion into training
With the increasing adoption of VR, 3D immersion into training is becoming possible. Having been migrated from classroom to virtual training programs, the time has come when training immersion is possible without a keyboard and mouse.
5. Creating an ideal learning experience
These emerging learning methods are helping us to get closer to an ideal learning experience for the target audience to meet business and performance objectives.
With these new technologies, it’s possible to address the specific needs of each trainee, which helps us to provide them a more personalized experience. This way we can create training that is more relatable to the work.
Those days are not so far when you will get to interact with characters that will monitor your behavior and what you are saying and respond to you and coach you appropriately.