Virtual Reality in Teaching at the University of Nottingham

It’s the final episode of the series and we are leaving 2024 via the Virtual door.  Simon talks with Simon Harrison, the Digital Learning Director of the Faculty of Engineering, about the Virtual Reality Lab at Nottingham, how it was a world first, how the technology works and how teaching a class of 40 students who are potentially looking at something different can be conquered.  Have you ever thought about using Roblox as a vehicle for teaching? Stefan van der Vyver from Learning Technology has been creating worlds in the Roblox multiverse for different audiences as part of his role as a Developer in Learning Technology. What could this type of platform do to help scale up teaching?   Hosts  Ben Atkinson, Claire Storr, Nicholas Cameron, Simon Barnett  Guests  Simon Harrison and Stefan van der Vyver  Running Order  00:00 Welcome back  01:38 Simon Harrison  19:12 Ben Nicholas and Claire think about Virtual Reality  23:17 Stefan van der Vyver  49:21 Wrap Up  Links  Read more about the Learning Technology Section in our blog  Visit our SharePoint site (University of Nottingham only)  Don’t forget to add us to your podcast feed, we’ve got more episodes coming in 2025.    Production elements in this podcast provided by Music Radio Creative and Pixabay.