Lab Safety

Laboratories, especially those used for teaching and learning, contain inherent dangers and hazards. Teachers in a lab environment are thus confronted with the simple question: How can one teach students how to work in a lab which they are not allowed to enter until they are familiar with safety procedures? In the developed training module Lab Safety, students can now practise decision making in critical situations in a realistic but safe way.

Field Techniques

Visiting an archaeological site can be dangerous and confusing. Students are confronted with simple questions like: Where should I go? What am I looking at? The virtual reality (VR) application Fieldwork Techniques allows students to get familiar with an excavation site before visiting. In this way, we aim for students to become aware of relevant risks and possibilities that are present on site and recognise what is going on when they go to their first real excavation.

Title: Field Techniques

Tags: archaeology, scientific education, field trip

Format: interactive virtual reality experience based on 360° video Target Group: First-year students of the course Field Techniques in the BSc program Archaeology

Partners: Leiden University, Centre for Innovation Faculty of Archeology Leiden University Archol

Related Links: https://www.centre4innovation.org/stories/fieldwork-techniques-a-virtual-excavation/

Time to Act - Emergency Care

The Centre for Innovation of Leiden University, together with the Leiden University Medical Centre (the team of Prof. dr. MEJ Reinders), created an immersive interactive VR experience using 360° video to practise the application of the ABCDE approach. This cornerstone method is a systematic approach to quickly and accurately assess and act upon emergency situations concerning critically ill patients.

Title: Time to Act - Emergency Care

Tags: interactive virtual reality experience based on 360° video, simulation, scenario, medicine, ABCDE approach Format: interactive virtual reality experience based on 360° video

Target Group: Medical students

Partners: Leiden University, Centre for Innovation LUMC, Internal Medicine

Related Links: https://www.centre4innovation.org/stories/time-to-act-emergency-care-practising-the-abc de-approach-in-virtual-reality/

Behaviour: not an issue

This virtual reality application offers elderly care professionals in training a unique insight into behavioural symptoms of patients with dementia through a virtual reality role-playing exercise. Students can experience different situations related to daily ins and outs of a patient and through this build understanding of how a problematic situation arises and develops.