Evaluating Virtual Reality as a Medium for Vocational Skill Training
Manshul Belani · 2020
There has been an increasing focus to skill, reskill and upskill the Indian population to capitalize the upcoming demographic dividend of the country. To address this, a broad spectrum of government schemes are being introduced, however, most of them have not been able to fulfil their requirements so far. There is a need for finding out ways to develop dynamic, demand-driven, quality conscious training solutions to enhance the ability to adapt to changing technologies and labour market demands. My dissertation work proposes a potential solution by exploring Virtual Reality as a medium to rapidly develop effective, scalable training modules for vocational skills in new-age employment sectors in India. After creating a framework based on formative research and case studies, I am building and evaluating one such system. I further plan to examine the efficacy of such systems and make them easy to be developed by existing vocational trainers with the help of an authoring tool.