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This course covers how game-based learning can improve student satisfaction, training, and ultimately create safer pilots.
Topic: This course covers how game-based learning can improve student satisfaction, training, and ultimately create safer pilots.
The science of game design, and the mechanics which are the building blocks of games, give us insight into how leveraging challenge in the right way can create engagement and motivation in your students. The level of difficulty in a given lesson or task is a major lever you can use to keep your student engaged. A challenge that is too difficult can be frustrating, or too easy can be boring. Providing the optimal level of difficulty and creating a rhythm of success makes training fun and motivational for the trainee. There are many game mechanics that can used as tools to drive engagement. Some of these mechanics include: interest curves, problem solving, clear goals and measures, chance, meaningful choices, story, and reward. New simulation tools are coming to market that leverage game-based learning techniques and technologies to give the student more confidence and early success in the airplane. These tools present the fundamentals of flying in a standardized way, and use objective measures to enable self-evaluation. If flight maneuvers can be learned and practiced in simulation, the aircraft can be used for more advanced concepts earlier in training, such as more cross-country time, correlating ground school knowledge to flight, and exercising aeronautical decision making.
Presenter
BRANDON SELTZ - Former Director of Scenario Development for Redbird Flight Simulations and game-designer on Microsoft Flight Simulator, Brandon and his team are working toward a vision of how game-based learning can revolutionize pilot development. This vision is influenced by Greg Brown’s 1999 article “Tomorrow’s Lesson” and his foresight of the “smart simulator”. A long-time private and glider pilot, Brandon is proof in the power of simulation in training.
Presenter
MARK THOMPSON - Mark is a gold-seal flight instructor who holds a ATP and is type rated B737 and A320. He attended the University of North Dakota (UND) where he started instructing in 2003. His experience at UND’s highly regarded structured program provided valuable insights into pilot development.
After UND Mark worked to implement RNP AR instrument approaches for airlines all over the world. After nine years away, he chose to get back into flight instruction at a fast growing and forward thinking part 61/141 flight school. There he met Brandon, the TakeFlight Interactive team, and their vision for the future of flight training. Mark jumped at the opportunity to influence the future of pilot development through the power of game-based instructional design and broad access to TakeFlight’s virtual flight instructor.
SPONSOR TAKEFLIGHT INITIATIVE - Accelerate Mastery! TakeFlight Interactive has combined the power of games, AI and data analytics, turning your simulator into a Virtual Flight Instructor. This enables pilots to master maneuvers, on their own, before stepping into the cockpit. We are creating better pilots, in less time, at greatly reduced costs. How It Works TakeFlight's Virtual Flight Instructor provides detailed verbal instructions, real-time feedback, and objective grading of pilot performance. Each lesson in our on-simulator curriculum contains multiple scenarios to ensure you have a thorough understanding of the maneuver.
TakeFlight provides more skill acquisition per hour with repeatable, focused lessons, that are more accessible and cost-effective than training in the aircraft alone. And the approachable, fun and engaging format makes it ideal for aviation education and outreach programs.
Learn more here - https://www.takeflightinteractive.com
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