Virtual Reality as an innovative and immersive learning tools for HEIs in Palestine Erasmus Project

Project Title

Virtual Reality as an innovative and immersive learning tools for HEIs in Palestine

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Al-Istiqlal University as a specialized Higher Education Institution in training future officers for the different Homeland Security Departments is seeking to introduce the Virtual/Mixed- Reality Concept in the Topography and Forensics courses as an innovative approach to teach the student the different challenging technical concepts related to principle of navigation, terrain’s topography, tracing and reading different maps describing the contours, interpret different keys when reading topographic maps, how to use compass in navigation , Extracting DNA from crime-scene evidences to perform PCR testing as an avant-guard training before using real expensive kits and samples in the future laboratory which is currently under construction at Al-Istiqlal University.Virtual reality is also used for training purposes especially in topics with a relative high risk and it can’t be done inside the institution walls which includes flight and battlefield simulations, medical training under battlefield conditions, virtual boot camp and more. Moreover, the ability to introduce practical knowledge to the classroom without actually leaving it, makes educational experience invaluable. Rather than listening to lectures, students can put words underneath a headset and get a real experience but in a virtual wrapper.The project will explore both popular models used to implement the virtual reality concept : the first model using a common platform built around a 3D open world which will be shared by partners and offers a lot of possibilities to further development, while the second will be a laboratory-based approach using Head-Mounted Displays, haptic devices and some technological innovation like eye-tracking, and force feedback on peripherals .

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 608951 Eur

Project Coordinator

AL-ISTIQLAL UNIVERSITY & Country: PS

Project Partners

• PANEPISTIMIO PATRON
• AL-QUDS OPEN UNIVERSITY
• ARAB AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PRIVATE STOCK COMPANY
• SLOVENSKA POLNOHOSPODARSKA UNIVERZITA V NITRE
• UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI
• PALESTINE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY