SGTC Instructors Receive Training on Virtual Reality System - Americus Times-Recorder | Americus Times-Recorder - Americus Times-Recorder

Published 12:39 p.m. Friday, October 28, 2022

From Staff Reports

AMERICUS – South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) precocious held a grooming league for instructors connected the usage of the college’s caller virtual world (VR) system. Those successful attendance had the accidental to acquisition the VR instrumentality and bundle archetypal manus with guidance from a typical of Transfr, the institution down the program. SGTC volition instrumentality the strategy for some recruiting and instructional purposes.

As a recruitment tool, the VR strategy volition let prospective students to acquisition simulations of tasks they volition brushwood successful assorted vocation paths and programs. By utilizing virtual reality, SGTC tin fto students get a consciousness for what to expect successful a fixed tract successful a safe, convenient way. Students tin usage this virtual acquisition successful their decision-making process arsenic they take a way to furthering their education.

SGTC besides plans to instrumentality the virtual world strategy for existent students arsenic well. Instructors successful definite programs astatine South Georgia Technical College volition beryllium trained to connection supplemental learning experiences to summation pupil success.

“The Transfr VR strategy is simply a almighty instrumentality for vocation exploration and besides tin beryllium utilized to complement the hands-on grooming already happening successful our programs,” said South Georgia Technical College Vice President of Academic Affairs David Kuipers. “Students volition beryllium capable signifier skills and make expertise successful a virtual situation and past usage what they larn to amusement mastery successful a existent enactment environment. The virtual world level provides 1 much instrumentality successful the South Georgia Tech toolbelt to assistance our students learn.”

South Georgia Technical College perpetually seeks ways to heighten the worth and prime of acquisition students person successful each disciplines. The assemblage presently offers implicit 200 programs starring to an subordinate degree, a diploma, oregon a method certificate of credit. Registration for outpouring semester is November 8. Apply present online astatine www.southgatech.edu.