by Lukáš Macenauer | Feb 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
The overall aim of the project VirTrain was to bring modern technologies and especially virtual reality directly to the hands of teachers to enhance the quality of teaching and learning in VET. Project goal was to map the training needs, show the benefits of VR fully,...
by Lukáš Macenauer | Sep 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
The VirTrain project has been a subject to fast changes of the VR EdTech landscape. To keep the pace the project team needs to make amendments to the envisioned structure and content of the project. And quite happily so! Anything can happen in the virtual...
by Lukáš Macenauer | Aug 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
A global event organized by our supporting partner of VirTrain – Californian strartup Immerse.online brought together researchers focusing at language acquisition in VR. Immerse.online is a leading producer of a purpose-built VR App for language teaching and...
by Lukáš Macenauer | Jun 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Our project had a significant amount of presence at the prestigeous Central-European academic EdTech conference DisCo Conference (19th -21st June 2022) in Prague, Czechia. Panel discussion among the VirTrain project team and VET language specialists led by Dr,...
by Lukáš Macenauer | Apr 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
In early April 2022 VirTrain ran a series of workshops at VET schools in Trento, Italy. The project consortium organized a 4 day on-set training in early April 2022 in the Trentino region, Italy. A consistent training with thematic and skill-developing progression the...
by Lukáš Macenauer | Feb 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Continuous professional development of (language) teachers in the highly innovative area of virtual reality – that is the sub-field of digital technology for teaching and learning, namely within the VET area the VirTrain’s project consortium promised to tackle....
by Lukáš Macenauer | Jan 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Our project is entering the its final year with a lot of ambition and a long list of to-do’s. Among them we have live trainings, multiplier events, hands-on work of the participating teachers with their actual students and much more. Let’s look at some of...
by Lukáš Macenauer | Dec 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
“Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what’s beyond.”Buzz Aldrin Spatial.io is one of the most promising environments for arts&design-related VET language training.spatial.io As the project team becomes more fluent with...
by Lukáš Macenauer | Nov 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
Language teaching in the VET context is not limited to initial education. Innovations in this area are at the center of interest in the EPALE community across Europe. That and the fact that VirTrain team member Lukáš Macenauer has been a speaker at the Regional...
by Lukáš Macenauer | Sep 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
‘Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Immerse me and I learn.’Benjamin Franklin (remixed by VirTrain participants) When speaking about teaching or learning a foreign language in VR, Benjamin Franklin’s adapted quote helps explain the way to success: ‘Tell me...
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