I’ve often wondered how far we could get if our training systems consisted less of one-to-many instruction and instead focused on deeply monitored, iterated group performance. The latter is how the most extreme environments operate, like space missions and the military, but the expense is hard to justify.
On the other hand, I don’t know of any middle-ground attempts at doing this for more routine environments. Doing such training for a standard office environment, which relies on standard consumer hardware and has no unusual safety or performance requirements, is doubtless much cheaper. How much cheaper would it have to be, and what kind of performance would it have to deliver, to make it worth considering as an alternative to the standard model of education?
As I write this it occurs to me that most of the distinction is down to the environment, and this model could easily suffer from a lack of emphasis on the value-added tasks that companies are concerned with. Of course, formal education does not provide any focus on those tasks either; the degree just offers some confidence that once provided with them, they can be accomplished.
I’ve often wondered how far we could get if our training systems consisted less of one-to-many instruction and instead focused on deeply monitored, iterated group performance. The latter is how the most extreme environments operate, like space missions and the military, but the expense is hard to justify.
On the other hand, I don’t know of any middle-ground attempts at doing this for more routine environments. Doing such training for a standard office environment, which relies on standard consumer hardware and has no unusual safety or performance requirements, is doubtless much cheaper. How much cheaper would it have to be, and what kind of performance would it have to deliver, to make it worth considering as an alternative to the standard model of education?
As I write this it occurs to me that most of the distinction is down to the environment, and this model could easily suffer from a lack of emphasis on the value-added tasks that companies are concerned with. Of course, formal education does not provide any focus on those tasks either; the degree just offers some confidence that once provided with them, they can be accomplished.