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Louisiana Testing Game-based Learning to Keep Highway Workers Safe

By pete_gallagher

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In order to make its safety training more appealing to workers, the Louisiana Transportation Research Center's (LTRC) Transportation Training and Education Center (TTEC) is trying out a pilot program that involves videogame-based teaching.

The center is now testing a simulator that allows participants to man an on-screen avatar as they run though required procedures in simulated work zones. Activities center on properly flagging equipment, operating flags correctly and following other correct safety actions.

TTEC Associate Director Glynn Cavin told 2TheAdvocate that the new training may eventually replace the currently employed conventional classroom method, which some highway workers find 'unappealing,' to which he added, 'It just doesn't work well.'
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 31, 2010 (boomark / email).

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