The ImREAL – Immersive Reflective Experience-based Adaptive Learning -project has developed a suite of intelligent services that can be used to enhance e-Learning environments and simulated environments for adult, reflective, experience-based, adaptive learning in the area of social interaction skills and intercultural competence.
After three years of intensive Research and Development work the project has been concluded. According to the external scientific reviewer “the project has made an excellent progress. All objectives stated in the work program have been achieved. The project has exceeded the expectations”
Three demonstrations domains were used: Medical interviews, Job interviews and Social Interaction between foreign visiting (Erasmus) students and their on-site buddies. The “Erasmus Simulator” was designed and tested in close collaboration between ILI and the FAU Welcome Center. In two piloting phases FAU buddies had the chance to develop their intercultural competences in a training enviroment–learning modules and simulation environment – especially conceived for their very specific needs.
The innovation in the ImREAL simulation approach is based on
- A novel pedagogical framework that combines real world experiences with the simulation experience and focus on the development of metacognition
- Intelligent services that retrieve semantic information from the social web – Twitter, Flicker, YouTube – and intelligently redirect the information to the simulation environment. The information coming from the social web is displayed according to learners’ needs and behavior in the simulation environment.
- Innovative research from across Europe has been combined with state of the art commercial immersive learning environments to deliver a cost-effective learning experience that is more closely aligned with what happens in the real-world, more in-tune with the learner’s cognitive abilities and cultural awareness and supports a complete learning process through an adaptive virtual mentor.
For more information visit the project website: www.imreal-project.eu and whatch the ImREAL -video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e53IxX1Gto
The ImREAL project is supported by the European Commission, in the theme ICT-2009 Digital Libraries and technology-enhanced learning, as a Specific Targeted Research Projects (STREP),
under the 7th Framework Programme
Sónia Hetzner 