Integrating Virtual Training Environment Into Vocational High School to Facilitate Character Education to Deliver a Professional Workforce

Abstract: The success of workers in the electronic field is not only determined by the mastery of hard skills but also of soft skills. The soft skills can reach by using an Information Technology (IT) through multimedia. A New technology introduced based on virtual reality for training activity. Virtual laboratory consists of collaborative learning, training program, and student’s character assessment form. Virtual training was developed in productive subjects are supported by the software authoring tools web based. Virtual training are interactive, dynamic, and animatif, not boring and can to support the user desires to learn and understand training material. Virtual training improved the competence students of vocational high school in the form of cognitive aspect, psychomotor aspect, and character (affective) aspect. Through integrated virtual training environment into student of vocational high school in facilitating character education become a basic to prepare the student to entering in the workplace. Character education should begin in the vocational high school to improve the competence of vocational labor force. This paper is proposed to facilitate the character education through virtual training environment. It is a fact that virtual training has been a scope of interest for vocational training for a very long time. However, it needs more time to be more common in all specific training fields. Interactive teaching program was developed and put into a website to form a virtual training centre