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Next frontier in engineering learning – UK’s first university module taught wholly in VR
The University of Nottingham is running the first and only virtual reality and simulation module in the UK taught to engineering students entirely in VR.
Each week, 50 students visit a virtual teaching island, called Nottopia, for mini lectures and seminars to learn about using VR in product and technology design.
The teaching shift is partly a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, but primarily a way to offer students a more immersive and social learning experience. Students see it as an obvious way to learn about simulation and VR from within VR and much prefer the format to the conventional face-to-face lectures of years past.