On November 8, 2023, the ViReTrain team had the opportunity to conduct a workshop at the ASPiH Conference in Brighton. Thirty participants actively posed questions about the development process and benefits of the scenarios and were delighted to receive free downloads of the scenarios and the Educators Handbook. The discussions and questions primarily evolved around Read More
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It is almost a wrap – Last partnership meeting at VIA University College in Aarhus, Denmark
The project is coming to an end and therefore the focal point for this Partnership meeting has been to finalize the project. We have among other things discussed, how the Educators Handbook and the VR scenarios can be downloaded in the easiest way. We have discussed The Final Report, which gave us a trip down Read More
Recording/Audios!
Dr Finn busy in the recording studio! The Irish team are in the process of completing audio files for the scenarios. Watch the space….
Open Afternoon for Staff/Students at School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Galway.
Dr Smyth and Dr Finn hosted an open afternoon for staff and students on the 6th of June from 2.00 to 4.00pm in the School of Nursing and Midwifery on the ViReTrain project. The VR headsets/equipment was tested by students and staff. We also ‘casted’ the Irish scenario which meant that other students and staff Read More
KN Cheung SK Chin InterSim Inaugural Conference, at Queen’s University Belfast, 9th June, 2023
Dr Smyth on behalf of ViReTrain presented a paper on ‘Innovative Virtual Reality Simulation Scenarios for Final Year Undergraduate Nursing Education Programmes at the ‘The KN Cheung SK Chin InterSim Inaugural Conference’, Queen’s University Belfast on the 9th of June, 2023. Reference: Smyth, S., Finn, Y. Dütthorn, N., Groddeck., L. & Jordan, F. (2023) Innovative Virtual Reality Simulation Read More
ViReTrain presented at the XR-network meeting in Münster
On June 15, 2023, “Digitallabor”, “Wandelwerk”; ” Teilprojekt XR” and the WWU facilitated an interactive exchange between various interested parties with their network meeting “XR in Teaching”. Our ViReTrain Project was one of 12 programms that were presented. We got the opportunity to exchange with other project as well as schools and private stakeholders. The Read More
Testing and feedback
We have now reached a crucial period in the development of the VR scenario, namely repeated playthroughs and feedback to our software engineer. We have currently sent over 27 pages of feedback on functionality and the visual expression. To get an authentic expression in the scenario, we have had a close collaboration with our clinical Read More
Second multiplier event in Aarhus, Denmark
On Thursday 15th of June, Ida and Christine (the Danish team) held there second multipleier event in Aarhus. Over 40 participants from various sectors attended. The participants came from different enducations at VIA University College, the University Hospital in Aarhus, the municipal sector in Aarhus and private companies We focused on the Module description and Read More
Münster’s Multiplier Event connects theory and practice
On June the 6th the practice partner of the FH Münster were invided for the Multiplier Event. About 30 nursing teachers from surrounding institutions participated as Nadin Dütthorn & Luisa Groddeck presented the ViReTrain project. The participants got an insight into the project’s goals and development of the scenarios as well as a hand on Read More