V-Tech
- Capacity Building, Digital Transformation, Innovation in Education
V-TECH – ACCELERATING WESTERN BALKANS UNIVERSITY MODERNIZATION BY INCORPORATING VIRTUAL TECHNOLOGIES
Funding Programme
ERASMUS+ CBHE 2019
Project Number
610281-EPP-1-2019-1-AL-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
Duration
36 Months
Overall Budget
867.124,00
Countries
Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Poland, Estonia
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V-TECH
Traditional teaching methods are losing their effectiveness and intelligent methods are becoming more and more important to increase teaching effectiveness. The aim for using 3D animation techniques, virtual reality (VR), and logic video gaming, is to increase the degree of understanding of basic concepts of the main courses in technical study programs. This project’s overall objective is to introduce at Western Balkan universities the concept of virtual technologies as a tool for accelerating university modernization while contributing to developing a knowledge-driven society. By incorporating Virtual Technologies in the academic culture of universities this project aims at increasing the quality and level of efficiency in teaching and knowledge retention through interactive learning methods, thus contributing to skills enhancement and further building of digital society in WB countries. In the mid and long term, the project will enhance the effectiveness of the higher education system in knowledge retention and application. The project’s direct beneficiaries are universities, schools, teachers, students, regional industries, and businesses
Objectives of the project
- Capacity building of academic staff to incorporate Virtual Technologies in teaching;
- Develop teaching methodologies availing of technology and/or ICT tools;
- Equip students with competencies to use/access tools, and software platforms;
- Increase interaction between teachers and students;
- Increase the level of understanding and reduce the grasping time and the effort that students need to learn information by using 3-D concepts instead of 2D ones;
- Offer a better delivery of basic knowledge even for complex issues, higher learning efficiency, and better learning experience by AR/VR techniques;
- Establish Virtual Technology HUB for developing teaching materials for basic learning courses and serve as a HUB for others;
- Foster cooperation between academy and industry by organizing open days, joint product developments, thesis supervision, etc.;
- Develop capacities for future joint research and innovative ideas with the support of VirtualTechnologies.
Expected Results and Outcomes
- +10 academic staff from each university will be trained to develop and use VT in their daily university work.
- Administrative staff at each HEI will be trained to support VT teaching at their universities;
- VT supported courses will be introduced at partner HEIs equipping students with transferable skills in innovative and critical thinking;
- Creative spaces and VT labs will be established at each partner HEI and will be open to other HEIs in region, contributing this way in the regional higher education capacity building;
- Joint academy – industry thesis supervision, open days and round tables with industry will be organized as effective tools in establishing and strengthening the links among students, alumni, industry and academia and producing sustainable future networks that will contribute effectively to objectives of both Higher Education sector and industry in partner countries.
Project Activities
- Developing institutional capacities for Virtual Technologies supporting university processes.
- Establishing the Virtual Technology Hub
- Enabling Virtual Technology teaching and learning methodologies
- Networking of Vtech Western Balkan Universities with Vtech European Universities
- Vtech University concept for boosting cooperation with industry
- User experience in VR environment
Project Partners
- Aleksander Moisiu University
- European University of Tirana
- Polis University
- Epoka University
- University of Prishtina
- University for Business and Technology
- Mother Teresa University
- South East European University
- University of Tartu
- Lodz University of Technology
- University of Ljubljana