Pleasanton, CA (US) / London (UK), September 2012 - Toolwire, a global provider in experiential learning, and Leeds Metropolitan University have announced that they will host a presentation entitled "Bringing Reality to Learning through Immersive Learning Environments and Serious Gaming" at ALT-C 2012, the nineteenth international conference of the Association for Learning Technology. The event will be held at the University of Manchester, UK, 11-13 September 2012.
The joint presentation will be hosted by Sarah Frame, Director of EMEA, at Toolwire and Anne Llewellyn, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences, Leeds Metropolitan University. It is scheduled to take place at 11:30 on 11 September (session number 267 in room 1.219).
Earlier this year, Leeds Metropolitan decided to collaborate with Toolwire in response to the Munro Review of Child Protection. The report found child-protection efforts were often undermined by the lack of a coherent strategy and poor communication between local agencies such as health providers, social-care providers, and the police. However, the practical and behavioural skills needed to overcome these challenges are hard to teach in a traditional classroom or eLearning environment.
This session will address how learning technology better can support the core processes of learning, teaching, assessment, recruitment, and retention, and also how course content can be applied in the working world. Demonstrations of these unique learning environments will also be available.
Sarah Frame, Director of EMEA at Toolwire, adds, "Immersive learning can be used across a wide range of subject areas, including education, health, law, Business, engineering, and social work, and this type of learning is being successfully deployed in higher education and corporate sectors. Resource-constrained organisations are looking more closely at technology-assisted learning to improve economies of scale, reusability, scalability, and consistency of results.
At the same time, both corporate and academic institutions want to deliver richer, deeper, more effective, and engaging learning interventions to improve competence and results. Experiential-learning solutions consistently gain highly positive feedback from learners, and results suggest they deliver improvements in learners' knowledge, confidence, and competence, as well as in retention and course-completion rates. The ALT-C conference will provide a great platform to show case what Toolwire Learnscapes can do and we are delighted to be at the event."
