3.10.2019  Jani Holopainen & Antti Lähtevänoja

Mixed Reality Hub, a multidisciplinary research group from the University of Helsinki, is conducting two courses, which will teach students negotiation skills: tropical forest management and general negotiation skills. Courses are funded by the Digiloikka-program (University of Helsinki), Metsäkoulutus ry and Metsämiesten säätiö.

Especially the general negotiation skills -course fits well to various disciplines, as well as for supplement education. Many of the existing virtual courses lack pedagogic aspects, methods and meaningful content. Regarding previous research, these things are some of the biggest barriers for making virtual courses useful. This particular problem is one of the challenges Mixed Reality Hub started to solve. With many years of experience from the field and with an iterative research & development -approach, a whole new concept of virtual course is made. This article will give an insight to the methods used to conduct the courses.

Mooc, VR and training in practice
VR-course has three components: MOOC Massive Open Online Course)-phase, VR (Virtual Reality)-phase and training in practice -phase. Lue loppuun →