VIRDUAL aims to boost digital innovation in VET by training teachers and trainers in companies (target audiences of the project) to use Extended Reality tools and apply simulation techniques to train the work readiness skills of trainees and participants (beneficiaries) through Work Based Learning.
The project is designed to increase the capacity and readiness of VET schools and companies involved in work-based learning to manage an effective shift towards digital education. It supports and encourages the purposeful use of digital technologies for teaching, learning, assessment, engagement, the development of digital pedagogy and the innovative use of digital educational content in VET.
The digital methodologies and results of the VIRDUAL project enable an innovative use of digital education by applying a two-pronged approach to digital skills training:
- VET teachers and company trainers (target users of the project) receive training on the use of extended reality to train work readiness skills.
- Apprentices and participants in further training programmes (beneficiaries) will receive training through extended reality on work readiness skills, which will be applied in companies during their participation in apprenticeship programmes.
The main outcomes encompassed by the VIRDUAL project are:
- Work Readiness Skills Training Curriculum for WBL through XR
- VIRDUAL Virtual Campus
- Web-based training application
- E-learning activities
- Recommendations for validation, certification and accreditation of competences.
