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Putting immersive training into Moodle: SCORM, LTI or xAPI

Moodle supports SCORM and LTI 1.3 natively, has no LRS of its own and only partial xAPI. Which route to pick for 360 and VR scenarios, and what breaks.

George Bellwood  ·   · 6 min read

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An empty clinical skills lab between sessions, a bed with a drawn curtain, an observation trolley and a monitor on standby casting a faint teal glow
HealthcareEducation

Manikin, VR or 360 scenarios: the costs and the evidence

Manikins, headset VR and 360 scenarios do different jobs. What published costs and recent meta-analyses support, including where VR does not win.

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Further EducationDeployment

What to do with the VR headsets you already bought

78% of UK colleges and universities have invested in XR. Barely half use it much. A practical plan for getting a dormant headset estate back into teaching.

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Further EducationGuide

Immersive training for apprentices: what counts and what works

Simulation exercises count as eligible off-the-job training in the English apprenticeship funding rules. What that allows, and how providers build it.

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BuyingGuide

How long does it take to build VR training? The honest numbers

Agencies quote 8 to 10 weeks and six figures. Authoring platforms quote minutes. Both are true, and the gap is what to understand before you buy.

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BuyingResearch

Is VR training effective? What the evidence actually says

A cited, honest read of the VR training research: what the meta-analyses show, which famous statistics are marketing, and what predicts a result.

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EnterpriseGuide

Build your own immersive onboarding, or commission an agency?

The numbers that decide it, including a VR vendor's own break-even point, what the onboarding research supports, and the day-one duties to cover.

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An empty hospital training room after hours, chairs left in uneven rows and a closed equipment case on a trolley
HealthcareNHS

NHS statutory and mandatory training: where immersive actually fits

Which CSTF subjects have a real legal driver, what the 2025 mutual recognition agreement did not remove, and where scenario training earns its place.

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Immersive wallsGuide

Immersive room content: what actually works on a 270° wall

You bought the room. Now what goes on it? Real aspect ratios, resolutions and content rules for 3-wall and 360° projection spaces, and how to author your own.

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GuideHealthcare

Bilingual Welsh training: why auto-translation is not compliance

The Welsh Language Standards require training in Welsh wherever you provide it in English. What that means, and why machine translation does not meet it.

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Further EducationHealth & Safety

Build your own workshop safety induction: a guide for FE colleges

Why generic VR safety modules fail in college workshops, what the law actually asks of you, and how to build a task-specific 360° induction for your own rooms.

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HealthcareNHS

NHS procurement for immersive training: DTAC, DSPT and the rest

What an NHS buyer has to clear before a VR training platform goes live in 2026, which standards apply to staff-only training, and three myths to drop.

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HealthcareNHS

Deteriorating patient scenarios: what to build and what to score

How to build your own NEWS2 and SBAR deteriorating-patient scenarios: the decision points that matter, what to score, and what the evidence really supports.

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GuideAnalytics

What you can actually measure from immersive training

SCORM, xAPI and cmi5 compared for scenario training: what each reports, why there is still no VR profile, and the privacy question asked too late.

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GuideProduction

What is a Gaussian splat, and is it useful for training?

A plain explanation of Gaussian splatting for training teams: how capture works, what it costs, where it beats 360° photography, and where it fails.

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ComparisonBuying

Best VR training platforms in the UK (2026): an honest comparison

Eight VR and immersive training platforms compared for UK buyers: authoring tools, content libraries and where each fits. Yes, we include ourselves.

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GuideDeployment

Do you need VR headsets for VR training? No, here is how it works

Modern immersive training runs in the browser, on phones, headsets and projection walls from one build. What that means for cost and rollout.

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HealthcareNHS

How an NHS health board drills cardiac assessment in VR

Cardiff and Vale UHB built branching cardiac assessment scenarios in Node XR and reached a 94% first-time pass rate. Here is how NHS teams do it.

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GuideBuying

Off-the-shelf VR library vs building your own: an honest guide

Ready-made VR training libraries and build-it-yourself platforms solve different problems. How UK teams should decide, and when to run both.

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Further EducationGuide

The UK college guide to building your own VR training

How FE colleges and training providers build immersive scenarios themselves, no code and no agency, with real results from ACT and Merthyr Tydfil.

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EnterpriseCase study

How Zurich Insurance rebuilt forklift inspection training in VR

Zurich Insurance Group trains every engineer who certifies a forklift, in every region, from one Node XR build, lifting inspection completion by 87%.

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