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The Archives
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04.15.10Healthcare Facilities Benefit from Virtual TrainingVirtual worlds provide significant benefits for medical training according to the Wall Street Journal which has a well-reported and detail-rich story about the benefits of virtual training to medical facilities. Delving into the training spaces in Second Life held by Stanford University, the University of Michigan and elsewhere, where "participants can build their own virtual clinics and stage just about any training drill they can imagine," the article reveals some of the enormous benefits that online training offers these facilities. Included among these, of course, is cost savings: for instance, computerized mannequins, which can cost $65K and have to ...
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06.26.08VW Technology a Threat to Human Training StaffThe analyst firm Gartner - an IT advisory company - has issued a report concluding that VWs can reduce the cost to companies of staff training, according to iTnews. The report notes that the cost of invesement in VW training will pan out in the long-run, as training staff can be reduced as more employees turn to VWs to learn, citing the medical and military sectors as two areas that have successfully integrated VW-based training: "Despite understandable concerns about investment during a time of growing business uncertainty," said Gartner analyst Steve Prentice, "we believe that the internal deployment of virtual worlds offers ...
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05.26.08Govt Gets Feet Wet in Virtual TrainingFirst came news that the Department of Homeland Security is developing a virtual social network that its employees will use for training and taking courses. Then, the Mixed Realities blog makes the case that government interest in virtual worlds is accelerating, but that the government will face the same hurdles as non-profits, universities, etc. in implementing virtual environments. Nextgov's Anne Laurent notes that the DHS platform will integrate with one being created for the National Guard. The Guard's platform is built on the same technology as Disney's Toon Town, minus the gaming component. As well, the Army has given a research ...
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05.16.08‘Violence Interruption’ Training in SLCeaseFire, a 'violence interruption' program whose aim is to prevent the spread of violent activities, was featured recently in a cover piece in the New York Times magazine. The piece was an in-depth look at combining science and intervention to combat gang violence in Chicago, based on the premise that violence should be treated like a contagious disease - find the carriers and intervene. And the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - one of the financial backers of the program - writes on its blog that CeaseFire has set up two islands in SL to extend the training program. At the CeaseFire island, ...
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