ABSTRACT Cable accessories installation (CAI) education is a crucial component of practical teaching in the power engineering major. It aims to cultivate students' mastery of standardized installation procedures and operational skills, ensuring the safe and stable operation of the power system. Due to the traditional teaching of CAI mostly adopting the “apprenticeship” approach, which relies on on‐site practical training and experience transmission for instruction, there are problems such as tight teaching resources and high operational risks in actual application, making it challenging to meet the urgent demand of modern engineering education for practical ability cultivation. Therefore, this paper constructs a virtual training system (VTS) for CAI. This system integrates virtual reality and 3D modeling technologies to realistically simulate the structure of cable accessories and the construction environment. It combines the cognitive characteristics and skill training requirements of CAI to create an integrated teaching framework based on the “demonstration—practice—examination—evaluation” approach. Finally, to verify the application effect of the system, 40 college students were invited to participate in the training experiment and were randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group. The experimental process included three stages: pre‐test, training, and post‐test. The results show that VTS had a comparable learning effect to the traditional teaching mode and demonstrated significant effectiveness in reducing cognitive load. Meanwhile, the system could stimulate students’ interest in professional knowledge during the training process, help them discover their strengths and abilities, and further enhance their initiative and enthusiasm for professional learning.
Li et al. (Thu,) studied this question.