SHIPLEY COLLEGE IS IMMERSED IN NEW TECHNOLOGY!
Shipley College’s brand new 4D ‘immersive classrooms’ are set to elevate training and learning for all of our students.
These innovative spaces, which leverage cutting-edge Virtual Reality (VR) technology, are transforming the way our students and employees learn and engage.
The 4D immersive rooms can replicate any environment with full wall and floor projections, surround sound audio, and even the appropriate smells!
Whether it is our Health & Social Care students learning how to move patients from a bed to a commode, our Midwifery students learning how to manage complex situations, or our Access to HE students on the fast track to university, this equipment is revolutionising how we teach and how our students learn.
These rooms allow students to apply the skills they are learning - without the risks that they might encounter in real life.
Our training environment realism is elevated when our AI patient simulators are also placed into the immersive rooms and the rooms become a hospital ward. These include a male, a pregnant female and a paediatric patient.
Our Health students (nursing and midwifery) and those progressing to become Oncologists, Physiotherapists and Radiographers at the University of Bradford (as part of our relationship with the Bradford District Care Trust), alongside our Care students, will be trained on the programmable and augmented reality robotics that simulate clinical diagnostics, childbirth, emergency medicine, minor surgeries and personal and geriatric care conditions.
The immersive suites can also be used with the College as wellbeing spaces, a place for team building or team meetings and for bringing lessons to life in maths, English and mandatory training sessions.
“The new immersive suites have caused a lot of excitement amongst colleagues and students. I’m amazed at how quickly we have managed to ‘get to grips’ with cutting-edge technology. I’ve been able to see our immersive suites being used as a wellbeing space, a place for team building/ team meetings and colleagues already using it to bring their actual, planned lesson to life.”
Diana Bird, Principal