Festo LX digital learning portal blends online and hands-on training

The Festo Learning Experience, Festo Didactic’s new digital learning portal, is offering new individualized teaching approaches that can incorporate tools like virtual reality and augmented reality to help workers learn about emerging technologies.

The latest development from the innovators at Festo Canada is a digital learning portal called the Festo Learning Experience, or Festo LX. This is a response to current educational trends, with digitization exerting strong influence on technical training. Festo LX simplifies creation of individual learning experiences for teachers and students.

Festo LX, created by Festo Didactic, is designed for the industrial future, in which new technologies will alter job requirements and change the face of marketable skills.

Ideal for young learners

People will need to upgrade their skills constantly, and graduation will not end their technical education. Workers will need to understand new technologies and how to work interactively and collaboratively with them. Employers will need to help employees get the right knowledge and experience to get a competitive advantage, as well as an boost in recruiting and retention.

This digital learning portal focuses on the emerging need for more individualized learning, offering resources for different technical training professions in small bites that can be assembled individually into course and entire learning paths. Festo LX includes videos, animations, simulations, text units, and small quizzes to hold the attention of the learner, and courses can be tailored as required. It is available online for use anytime and anywhere. Its design by Festo is ideal for young learners, already fluent in current technology through tablets and Smartphones.

Another benefit of Festo LX is micro learning, which involves small, self-contained portions of knowledge. These leaning units are very short with clearly defined learning goals, and modern students can grasp them quickly and assemble them in modules, so trainers and educators can address every need from a different starting point. Lessons can be taught at any time or place through Smartphones or tablets, with augmented and virtual reality incorporated into lessons. Augmented reality folds in information through a scanned QR code, while students wear virtual-reality glasses to explore a virtual learning world.

With a mix of hands-on training and online content, Festo LX gives users the full potential of their educational experience, with trainees catapulted into future roles virtually.

For more information, contact Festo.

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