VR4LL 2.0

Our original project, VR4LL 1.0, provided language teachers and learners with the opportunity to use VR technology in a classroom context. One student wearing a headset was given a task to complete in one of our engaging virtual worlds, with instructions being provided by his or her classmates.

The success of this initial project can be measured by the large number of language schools that are using our VR materials, and by the fact that the project was shortlisted for the British Council’s prestigious ELTon’s award, in the category of Digital Innovation.VR4LL 2.0 is a new project, also co-funded by Erasmus+, that has even more ambitious aims. In this new project, we will develop two different types of learning environments.

In the first type, students will be asked to perform tasks in a virtuallearning environment such as a science lab, which may befamiliar to some students, but certainly won’t be familiar toall of them.

In the second type of environment, students willhave to complete a task by navigating their way around aseries of virtual escape rooms. In this case, nothing will bequite so familiar; neither the virtual environmentsthemselves, nor the sort of activities students are requiredto undertake.Both types of learning environments will allow multipleplayers, so students will be able to interact with theirclassmates both inside and outside the virtual worlds, aswell as with a wide range of objects and avatars (or non-playable characters).

The underlying aim of VR4LL 2.0 is to leverage recentadvances in VR technology to provide students with evenmore stimulating opportunities to practice and improvetheir language skills. Project updates will be posted on our website, as well as onour social media accounts, so if you don’t already follow us,we recommend you do!