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The use of virtual reality in schools creates opportunities through interactive learning and unique changes of perspective, but also poses challenges, particularly in terms of security, data protection and seamless integration.
Virtual reality brings school lessons to a new level: explore ancient cities, explore cells, experience history. But not everything that VR is shiny. The article shows how VR can be used sensibly — and where care should be taken.
Virtual reality as an addition to the classroom: VR enables immersive learning experiences, enriches traditional methods and promotes individual learning. But as a component of a comprehensive digital strategy, it remains an addition, not a revolution.
VR offers immersive learning environments, while AI delivers personalized content: Together, they create dynamic environments tailored to the level of learning that make complex topics vivid and individually tangible.
Virtual reality in teaching promotes motivation, engagement, deep understanding, and empathy. Despite challenges such as the so-called simulator disease, the benefits prevail when VR is used in addition to traditional methods.
Dortmund — It's been a long time since lesson content was projected onto the wall via an overhead projector or the video car was pushed into the classroom. However, as the then ultra-modern technology liked to go on strike, teachers often had to improvise. Now, in 2024, teaching at NRW schools looks completely different. In the future, students should even experience adventures and breathtaking expeditions up close.
The Ministry of Education will provide a total of around 3,000 VR glasses to practical teacher training centers and schools via around 50 municipal media centers in North Rhine-Westphalia by the end of 2024. Over the next five years, the aim is to test what contribution VR technology can make to contemporary and future-oriented teaching and learning in the digital world.
In the past school year, three Leipzig schools, together with the Media Education Center (MPZ) of the City of Leipzig, developed concepts for using virtual reality (VR) in teaching.
The North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Education will provide schools in the state with a total of around 3,000 VR glasses by the end of 2024. They should be used to test new innovative technologies in teaching.
Teacher training must change — this is what Minister of Education Dorothee Feller said during her visit to the teacher training center at Johannsenaue in Krefeld.
North Rhine-Westphalia is launching a large-scale project to introduce virtual reality learning solutions in schools. VIL GmbH and Deutsche Telekom are equipping schools with over 3,400 VR headsets to make learning more interactive and immersive.
To promote digitally supported teaching in NRW, the state is equipping schools with around 3,000 glasses for virtual reality (VR) applications. The facilities should receive the VR glasses by the end of the year, as announced by the Ministry of Education in Düsseldorf on Wednesday. In addition, the VR glasses will be tested at all 33 locations of the country's centers for practical teacher training.
The Ministry of Education will provide a total of around 3,000 VR glasses to practical teacher training centers and around 50 municipal media centers in North Rhine-Westphalia by the end of 2024. Over the next five years, the aim is to test what contribution VR technology can make to contemporary and future-oriented teaching and learning in the digital world. Minister of Education Dorothee Feller visits the Center for Practical Teacher Training in Krefeld and will find out about the pilot project there.
Düsseldorf · The facilities should receive the VR glasses by the end of the year. In addition, the VR glasses will be tested at all 33 locations of the country's centers for practical teacher training.
The Ministry of Education in North Rhine-Westphalia will provide a total of around 3,000 VR glasses by the end of 2024. They should be used to test new innovative technologies in teaching.
Around 3,000 VR glasses to test new innovative technologies in class
When it comes to digitizing the education system, Germany is lagging behind pioneers such as South Korea and Finland. What are the challenges and potentials of digital technologies such as virtual reality and AI in teaching?
In addition to AI, virtual reality is a key technology in the area of digitization. If you combine both, there is a lot of potential, including for the school sector.
Virtual reality offers enormous potential in schools. Abstract content is conveyed vividly and interactively, which better anchors knowledge. VR can help to take different learning requirements into account, especially in inclusive teaching.
With the Media Education Center in Leipzig (MPZ), we tested at three different Leipzig schools to what extent VR can complement and enrich traditional teaching as a new medium. In doing so, all participants themselves relied on a collaborative and exploratory approach.
Since 2023, MPZ-Leipzig has been testing scenarios for using virtual reality at Leipzig schools. After three Leipzig schools carried out initial projects in the first project phase, the “VR at Leipzig Schools” project has started its second round with five new schools for the 2023/24 school year.
New world of learning — Virtual Reality (VR) opens up fascinating scope for action for school and teaching. Leipzig schools are therefore testing the potential of this still young technology: Students from elementary school to high school develop their own virtual spaces and test the opportunities and limits of VR.
Under the title “VR at Leipzig Schools”, the Leipzig Media Education Center (MPZ), in cooperation with Deutsche Telekom and its partner companies Deutsche Telekom MMS GmbH and VIL GmbH (Virtual Interactive Learning), tested the use of virtual reality technology with three Leipzig schools in the second half of 2022/23. It is planned to include VR firmly in the MPZ Leipzig offering.
The biggest event for school administrators and school managers in German-speaking countries - with virtual reality
18 years after graduating from high school, Jan-Philipp Moritz returns to the Otto Hahn Gymnasium in Monheim. In his luggage: a class set of 30 VR glasses, which his Langenfeld start-up VIL developed specifically for schools.
Since Corona at least, textbooks are no longer the only learning tools used in our schools. In addition to tablets, virtual reality should now also be brought into classrooms with the help of VR glasses.
The company Covestro is equipping the city's media studio with a class set of 30 pairs of glasses for immersing themselves in virtual worlds.
Metaverse instead of classroom - experience history in virtual space. We are accompanying a lesson at the Sophie-Scholl-Gynasium in Oberhausen.
After the lessons for students from the Konrad-Adenauer-Gymnasium (KAG) have been enriched with a learning system from the Langenfeld-based company VIL, which uses the possibilities of virtual reality (VR), the system now “travels” on to the Copernicus Realschule (KOP).
They are already widely used in the gaming world and VR glasses are also used in a variety of ways in vocational training or in the health sector. Since 2023, the Leipzig school landscape has also been dedicated to the topic of “virtual reality” in an educational context.
The Media Education Center of the City of Leipzig (MPZ) has been investigating the use of virtual reality technology in school contexts since January 2023. At the end of the first project phase, students will present their results at the Friedrich-Schiller-Schule on June 30, 2023.
There are a number of start-ups at Didacta 2023 that want to make digital technology easier in classes. VIL comes with complete VR systems.
Progressive digitization has long since reached all areas of life. Calls for appropriate modernization of learning content are therefore becoming louder and louder in schools as well. A company from North Rhine-Westphalia wants to change this and make knowledge transfer tangible for everyone involved. Initial successes have already been achieved with a complete virtual reality solution for schools, universities, institutions and companies that is unique in Germany.
Virtual reality (VR) is one of the latest achievements in digitization and is gradually finding its way into private living rooms, meeting rooms and gaming offerings. The fact that the special headsets enable a greater fusion of users and content is one of the technology's major strengths. Making school education more exciting with VR glasses in class is an interesting and promising option that VIL GmbH is now bringing into classrooms.
A few years ago, the term virtual reality was nothing more than a pure vision of the future, which many people did not really pay much attention to. At the time, the majority would probably not have thought it possible that virtual reality education would also come into focus. But that is exactly what is now no longer a vision, but a reality.
The Sophie-Scholl-Gymnasium was the first school in Oberhausen to buy virtual reality glasses. How students and teachers react to this.
In cooperation with Deutsche Telekom, Mark Christian Krüger from VIL GmbH explains the solution for virtual interactive learning in just a few seconds at Digital X 2022 at Deutsche Telekom's Digital Education Brandhouse.
Jan-Philipp Moritz and Alexander Runge always longed for practical lessons during their school days. They didn't just want to look at illustrations in books, but also to experience first-hand what they were learning. With their start-up VIL GmbH, they bring virtual reality to schools — and fulfill their own dream from back then.
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