The Virtual Reality as a Learning Venue for Basic Vocational Education and Training project, which we presented in July as the winner of the SGAB Vocational Education and Training Award 2025, has now been officially honoured at the autumn conference of the Swiss Society for Applied Vocational Education and Training… Read More »VR as a learning venue: Award ceremony at the SGAB conference
Together with another innovative project for the further training of vocational trainers, the project ‘Virtual Reality as a learning venue for basic vocational training’ was awarded the 2025 Vocational Training Prize by the Swiss Society for Vocational Research and Practice (SGAB). The interdisciplinary team led by Thomas Keller and Elke… Read More »SGAB VET Prize for “VR as a learning venue”
In the latest episode of our podcast Schampar digital, we look at the possibilities of virtual reality (VR) in vocational education. Our guest is Martin Berger from the PH Zurich. Among other things, he provides insights into a project in which a VR environment was developed to prepare apprentices from… Read More »New podcast episode: Virtual reality in vocational training
“VOLT VR” was awarded the silver prize by “AVRiL 2024 – Gelungene VR/AR-Lernszenarien”. The competition, organized by the “VR/AR Learning” working group of the German Informatics Society (GI), recognizes innovative learning concepts that integrate virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) into educational contexts in an outstanding way. “VOLT VR”… Read More »“VOLT VR” wins silver in the AVRiL 2024 competition
At the beginning of September, we were represented at Switzerland’s largest science festival. We presented fascinating research ranging from virtual reality projects on gold mining in Congo to the amazing possibilities of artificial intelligence in health, language and robotics. Ricardo Chavarriaga presents a video game controlled by thoughts. Virtual Reality… Read More »Our appearance at the Scientifica
A recent study by the ZHAW and PH Zurich shows that virtual learning environments are promising for in-company training. Learners from the electrical industry additionally prepared for their final exams with virtual reality software and were able to improve their grades by one. For many training companies, it is difficult… Read More »Better apprenticeship with virtual reality
Virtual Reality (VR) learning exercises are recognized to boost motivation of students and to be highly scalable. In Central Tanzania, Helvetas and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) conducted a pilot study with electrical engineering students at two government vocational training schools. Helvetas is a practice partner in the… Read More »Virtual reality as a learning venue for basic vocational training – pilot test with students in Tanzania
Develop and implement innovative solutions to the challenges of digital transformation: This is the goal of the ten projects approved by the innovation program of the Digitalization Initiative of Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH). With four million Swiss francs, the canton and the universities are promoting close collaboration between research and practice in areas such as health, education and sustainability.
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