Educational Applications of Virtual Reality (12.30-13.15)

The emerging and innovative technologies of Virtual Reality, through their specifics characteristics and capabilities, contribute to the development of the horizontal nodal skills of students of the 21st century, such as autonomous learning, informational-digital skills literacy, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, creativity and innovation. These technologies are used in multiple actions of the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, including the Digitally Supported Learning Environment (DLE) (https://digilearn.pi.ac.cy).
During the Student Radio Festival 2024, at the Aglantzia High School, visitors will have the opportunity to experience, in an immersive way, unique virtual reality experiences using state-of-the-art autonomous systems, which allow users to interact using vision, hearing and body movement in 3D virtual worlds and digital environments. Through educational applications- virtual reality environments, visitors will be able to navigate and explore spaces they could not otherwise experience (e.g. inside the human body or in solar system etc.) and enhance their experiences by turning them into “first person experiences”.
Note: The team will consist of 16 people (2 per Quest VR) and must be ready to enter the laboratory 5 minutes before its start.

Workshop duration: 12:30 – 13:15

Workshop capacity: 16 students

Christos Rousias, Professor at the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute

Secondary Education