Course Description

We live in an era where learners shift away from conventional learning approaches. An increasing number of students drop out of school and educators need to consider the traditional mechanics of motivation. Recent technological developments which encompass virtual and augmented reality and gamification offer schools original and innovative ways to engage and excite the student’s desire to learn.
This course investigates the possibilities, challenges, and future of gamification, virtual and augmented reality in education through tested applications and scenarios in various teaching environments. We will see ways in which we can incorporate these elements in various classrooms across subjects and learn the design principles guiding VR and AR.

Topics Include

• What is Gamification, its significance, how it works and its downsides
• The eight principles of gamified learning
• Contests, leader boards, Open Badges and gamification of learning in the classroom
• VR and AR equipment for a classroom
• Constructivist learning with Virtual Reality support
• Virtual Reality applications and learning experiences
• The five design principles of Augmented Reality learning
• Augmented Reality applications and learning experiences

Aims in relation to the development of your organisation

• The School will gain expert teachers on gamification methods.
• The School will gain know-how with cutting-edge technology such as VR and AR.
• The School will enrich its didactic methods.

Course Description

This course is ideal for educators and youth workers wishing to experience the creation of VR and AR applications on a practical level. Additionally, this course discusses gamification elements for making attractive simulations for students in the classroom and other learning environments.
The training starts with introducing what gamification is and how it works, followed a discussion on the eight gamified learning principles.

Participants will get hands-on and create simple video games using the Unity platform and experience what VR, AR, XR is all about with hands-on examples. The available VR and AR platforms and scenarios on which one will work best depending on the situation are discussed.
Finally, the course dives in the area of creating VR and AR experiences and testing them by using state-of-the-art equipment such as the Oculus Rift S.

Topics Include

• What is Gamification, its significance, how it works and its downsides
• The eight principles of gamified learning
• Video Game Design with Unity engine
• VR and AR equipment for a classroom
• VR simulation Design with Unity engine
• Augmented Reality application design with Unity engine

Aims in relation to the development of your organisation

• The organisation will gain expert teachers on gamification methods.
• The organisation will gain know-how with cutting edge technology such as VR and AR.
• The organisation will enrich its knowledge in video game design and VR and AR development.

Course Description

As humans, we all possess an organ inside our head that is ubiquitous and utterly essential to the way we fulfil our daily tasks. However, we do not hold in-depth knowledge of how it processes the information that goes through each layer of neurons. Throughout the interactions we have in our lives in the continually changing environments, we develop our richest memories. Our brain is processing life experiences which have a substantial effect on the establishment of our personality, and the way information is translated into perception. The structure of the human brain and how we learn, emerged the concept of Artificial Intelligence, a relatively new field of computer science, as it has developed over the last 50 years.

Artificial Intelligence is a well-known concept nowadays. Many scientists tried to define AI and state what it tries to accomplish. However, it is difficult for someone to deliver the correct definition of something that changes systematically in a rapid manner. Nature endowed man with five basic senses that enabled him to perceive the environment and interact with it. Those five basic senses along with other human abilities are what AI is trying to mimic of doing using machines. Learn more about this automation of activities, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and how they are associated with everyday problems.

Throughout this course, you will gain an overview of the main concepts of Artificial Intelligence in theory as well as creating your first AI model. We’re in a digital economy where the importance of data is greater than ever. Data is the 21st-century new oil: a precious commodity that is largely underdeveloped. There will be huge rewards for those who see the essential importance of data and learn to extract and use it and a setback for those who don’t.

Topics Include

• Introduction to AI
• Artificial Intelligence Vs Machine Learning
• Applications of AI
• Create your first AI model
• Discussion of how AI will change the world in the future

Aims in relation to the development of your organisation

• Acquire sufficient knowledge of upcoming technologies.
• Get in touch with concepts of industry 4.0 as we are about to enter this new fourth industrial revolution.
• Learning the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence will help individuals with their decision making about their career.
• Understating how AI works companies will be more aware of the valuable data they need to store for their future needs.