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Clinical skills labs exist in many Universities and University Hospitals, having a high maintenance cost and doesn’t always offer to the medical and nursing students a fully immersive experience. In recent years there is an expansion of ICT in healthcare education, and a number of online resources in the form of Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs), Virtual Patients (VPs) and other on-screen computer or mobile simulation tools have been created with positive acceptance by the students. However, current efforts, luck to provide a cost effective and immersive clinical skills learning experience. Furthermore, Virtual Reality (VR) exists for many years, but it is only lately that the new generation smartphones make VR accessible to a wider audience. There are a few examples of VR resources for healthcare education, and some studies showed promising results. While simulation based training is identified as a valid teaching/learning strategy, little evidence exists for the design and use of virtual reality reusable e-resources in healthcare education. To this extent, there is no development framework for the creation for virtual reality reusable e-resources utilising stakeholder participation. Thus, CoViRR strategic partnership will co-create virtual reality reusable e-resources promoting innovative practices in digital era, by supporting current curricula and fostering open education. The aim of CoViRR strategic partnership is to co-create new pedagogical approaches and in particular virtual reality reusable e-resources for European Medical and Nursing schools. The CoViRR will use participatory design to engage stakeholders (students, healthcare workforce staff, lecturers, clinicians, etc.) in order to co-create low cost, but effective virtual reality reusable e-resources and release them as Open Education Resources. Through CoViRR effective use of digital technologies and open education will be incorporated into Healthcare curricula, in order to enable students to increase their clinical skills by offering both immersive and flexible learning. A multidisciplinary group of experts in online pedagogies, clinical and academic staff, learning technologists, researchers, computer scientists and representatives of medical and nursing students will participate in project activities. Initially identification, consensus and quality assurance of the virtual reality themes and scenarios will be made, followed by training of teaching and technical staff on co-creation methodologies. Next, virtual reality reusable e-resources scenarios and activities will be co-created followed by technical development of them. Then, analysis of feasibility and acceptability of VR Reusable e-Resources, co-creation best practices and recommendations for use will follow. Dissemination of results will happen at two phases: Initially dissemination at local, national and international level using virtual channels to inform about the created VR e-resources in order to attract more learners from other universities for analysing the feasibility and the acceptability and secondly dissemination of the project outcomes through a multiplier event, publications in journal and conferences, social media and websites, press and internal and external networks of partners. Project manager will ensure the high quality and on time activities of the project. The CoViRR outputs will be 9 new virtual reality reusable e-resources for medical and nursing students; trained teaching staff (18) on co-creation methodologies; best practices for the adapted co-creation methodology for virtual reality reusable e-resources; Analysis of feasibility and acceptance of Virtual Reality Reusable e-Resources and recommendations for use in terms of pedagogical aspects; at least 100 trained students on clinical skills having an immersive learning experience. CoViRR expects that students will adopt this new digital pedagogy and improve their clinical skills and competences through immersive learning, while the teaching staff will enhance their e-learning tool co-creation competences and make use of co-creation best practices and recommendation for use. It is also expected increased cooperation between the partners. Thus CoViRR in the long term expect to influence the development of medical and nursing curricula with this digital innovation, foster the quality of the future healthcare workforce and further improve international competitiveness of the partners’ healthcare curricula.
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