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Date Time Next frontier in engineering learning – UK’s first university module taught wholly in VR The University of Nottingham is running the first and only virtual reality and simulation module in the UK taught to engineering students entirely in VR. Each week, 50 students visit a virtual teaching island, called Nottopia, for mini lectures and seminars to learn about using VR in product and technology design. The teaching shift is partly a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, but primarily a way to offer students a more immersive and social learning experience. Students see it as an obvious way to learn about simulation and VR from within VR and much prefer the format to the conventional face-to-face lectures of years past. ....
15th December 2020 12:47 pm 15th December 2020 12:47 pm Engineering students at Nottingham University are being taught in an immersive VR module that could pave the way for lectures of the future. Nottopia is a virtual teaching island that plays host to 50 students each week. As well as acting as a virtual lecture theatre, Nottopia is a platform for exploring the foundations and possibilities of virtual reality, allowing students to interact with lecturers and other users. While headsets can be used for a fully immersive experience, Nottopia can also be accessed via desktop PCs. Topics covered in the Nottingham course include fidelity and validity of simulators, VR technologies, multi-modal VR, space perception, immersion and presence, natural language interfaces and VR sickness. According to course convenor, Professor Gary Burnett, the module has been an excellent way to use VR as an educational tool to foster student engagement and social interact ....