DiSTI Releases VE Studio 2019.4
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DiSTI finished off 2019 with the capstone release of VE Studio 2019.4. This latest release incorporates features initially developed for the U.S. Army’s Family of Maintenance Trainers and are making their way into VE Studio as commercially available features. Specifically, making it easier for commercial customers to create and sustain the curriculum of multiple variants of similar equipment. Secondly, enabling instructors to insert faults during a student’s Freeplay session dynamically.
As training organizations scale to offer more content overthe lifespan of a piece of equipment, continue evolving due to market changesor improvements, sustaining that maintenance courseware typically becomes morecomplex and costly to update and deliver alongside the existing versions of thetraining to the field. If the initial training was hand-coded, this couldrequire a complete re-write of the training and publishing of new runtimes.
There are inherent complexities of creating multiple models,courseware lessons, and dynamic faults that stymie virtual trainingdevelopment. Additionally, publishing the courses that create additionaloverhead on initial course development as well as long-term sustainment canprove challenging. Costs of coding each variable and publishing runtimes canbecome prohibitive. This approach negatively affects the sustainability of thecourseware.
VE Studio’s features enable training organizations toovercome these challenges. VE Studio’s new support for equipment variants simplifiedthe development processes while simultaneously constraining costs by reusingmost of the previous content. It also sped the delivery of the runtimes to thefield by integrating variant support directly into the Training Assistant,making it easier for instructors to create new lessons and assign to theirstudents.
This enables training development teams to create andsustain content faster and more economically over the life of the program.
Some additional features that improve the user experiencewithin the runtime include enhanced student session recording capabilities andcontrols throughout the Training Assistant, as well as the insertion of DynamicFaults into a student session, which allows instuctors to change up the trainingcourse and challenge students in the classroom to respond to new scenariosoutside of a linear learning path.
