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How can an education platform help me as a qualified professional?

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Initial thoughts on education platforms

Let’s refer to the title of this post quickly, this is a question we often get asked at Immersify.

Education platforms are usually seen as a resource that is more targeted towards students undergoing a degree, a college course or as a pre-enrolment tool to start learning key topics. But educational platforms, are also beneficial for young and/or qualified professionals 💯

Whether you are needing a study resource for CPD courses, want to strengthen your skills in a certain area or need more exposure to real-life encounters, educational platforms can help you achieve this.

Our education platform Immersify, incorporates key learning methods and features that equip individuals with the transferrable skills in which they can apply throughout their professional career.

So, how is Immersify relevant to you? 💡

Here’s how:

Scenario-based learning

✍️ Why is scenario-based learning beneficial to you?

This learning method is essential in understanding how you would act in a real-life situation and helps the development of key problem-solving skills and your ability to make real-time decisions*.

But more specifically, visual scenario-based learning, this learning method is more engaging than the traditional text-focused forms of scenario-based learning. This is because visual scenarios use imagery, such as animations and infographics, to make the learning experience more interactive and fun.

✍️ Why is visual scenario-based learning better?

Professionals do not have the time to read a 60-page document on a case, that’s why visual scenarios are being increasingly incorporated within teaching; as they are more of an efficient use of time. It’s also a lot easier to assess individuals and provide feedback as they have been able to complete the exercise a lot quicker than what the traditional method would take.

Where does Immersify come in? 🤔

Our platform provides many scenario-based learning experiences.

For example, let’s say you are a young dentistry professional who wants to better understand the different types of Local Anaesthetic.

Within our Local Anaesthetic experience, or what we call LA, learners are presented with a patient’s clinical history, which they then must choose the type of anaesthetic, injection site and angle for this patient. During this process, learners see an animation of how the anaesthetic they have chosen affects the patient’s nerves. Once they have completed this process, two things happen, they either receive reasons as to why their choice was the correct one or, they are provided with a better option regarding that patient.

Simulated clinical settings

🩺 Why do simulated clinical settings benefit your learning?

For our academic areas in healthcare, these simulations enable you to strengthen your clinical and decision-making skills in relation to events that you will face in your daily work.

This protected environment allows you to boost your self-esteem and confidence within this element of your profession*. Exposure to this environment allows you to learn and fail within a safe environment knowing that your ‘patient’ isn’t under any harm whilst you complete a procedure.

How does Immersify do this? 🤔

To keep in theme with our dentistry example earlier, our new dental content includes Oral Surgery, specifically Extractions, where we have an interactive animation that talks you through the process.

Starting off in a simulated clinical setting, this animation mentions where to sit depending on whether you are undergoing an upper or lower extraction. This animation then goes into how it’s important to understand the risks and implications that may arise during a tooth extraction, such as breaking a tooth, to then discussing the different instruments for extractions and when best to use them; giving learners the full picture as to what happens during this procedure.

Industry-led and academically correct content

📚 Why are credible sources important for your learning?

Now that you are a qualified professional, or are about to qualify, it’s important that the sources you use throughout your learning are teaching you the relevant, updated and industry-specific processes.

Whether you are wanting to refresh your knowledge on a certain topic or are completing a CPD course to earn additional qualifications, you need to trust the sources that you are learning from.

What about the content within Immersify? 🤔

We collaborate with industry professionals to create and develop the content within Immersify. Once this content has been created by our team, we then have the content quality assured by a range of industry experts, student focus groups and quality assurance teams.

Not only is our content industry-led but we also have a content licensing partnership with Oxford University Press; as you can see, we make sure our resources are academically correct too.

Covering each basis provides you with the most reliable and credible resources to learn from, this makes our platform’s content relevant to industry standards whilst also bringing you sought-after topics.

Note: some processes may be specific to UK guidelines and may differ slightly to what you are taught within your country.

What other elements to look out for in an educational platform

Most education platforms have specific elements, pillars or USPs that make them differ from the competition*. It is essential that you look at the other aspects on offer and how these features relate back to your learning in order to make your decision.

Immersify has many different features and elements within the platform that supports you throughout your learning journey.

But, to pinpoint down our most relevant features for your learning and professional growth, it would have to be the ability to track your progress and identify areas for improvement; enabling you to tailor your learning journey. As well as our accessibility element, that allows you to pick up your learning when it is convenient for you.

Progress Graphs 📈

Once you complete a lesson you will be presented with a quiz. After completing this quiz, your score will be placed on a graph. Each time that you go in, complete this lesson and quiz, your most recent score will be placed on this graph.

Same with the experiences; every time you play these interactive games, you will get a score, which you can improve with each attempt. This instant feedback allows you to see how well you performed on that module and whether you need to do more work on this area.

Challenge Feature 🏅

Complete activities and earn crowns based off the score that you get on an activity. The more crowns you receive, indicates how well you know that topic. If you don’t get a score you are happy with, this highlights to you that you may need to freshen up on that topic or module.

We have this guide that goes into more detail as to how the Challenge Feature works.

For instance, say you complete an activity within the Challenge Feature on Periodontology, and you get 45/60, you may think to yourself that this is an area that you should be more competent in so then you go off any undergo further study into this area.

Accessibility ⏰

Through your hand-held device, you can access our platform’s content on the way to work, on a work break or in the comfort of your own home; enabling you to shape your learning around your busy schedule.

If you only have a laptop or desktop, you can access our content through Immersify Web. As long as you have a strong enough connection on WiFi or Hotspot, you can access the content the same way as your hand-held device.

Final thoughts on education platforms

Education platforms help professionals at whichever stage they are at within their learning journey.

The good thing about education platforms, like Immersify, is that they give you confidence in your work life and enable you to continue your development in your own time and not feel pressurised to do so.

When choosing a relevant educational platform, not only is the transferability of your learning to real-life experiences important, but so are the other platform features that are on offer and how reliable a platform’s content is; these elements add up in providing a high-quality and relevant education platform.

Become the best professional you want to be, download Immersify for free:

📲 Apple App Store

📲 Google Play Store

Don’t have a hand-held device? Access our content through Immersify Web.

go to Immersify web

References

https://elearningindustry.com/reasons-learners-prefer-scenario-based-learning-technique

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8116070/

https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/Consider-these-points-before-subscribing-edtech-platform.html

Hollie Taylor