Royal Holloway, University of London

Train the Trainer was launched in 2020 in response to a skills shortage and a critical need to build a talent pipeline for the UK immersive industry. The overall aim of the initiative is to support the growth and development of UK trainers and talent so that immersive production can fulfil its potential in the UK with a creative workforce that is highly skilled in the use of VR, AR and MR. The scheme provides a unique opportunity for university educators from institutes all across the UK to work together collaboratively, so headway can be made more rapidly to open doors and develop innovative new courses for this new and growing sector.

Train the Trainer HEI Professional Development

Three separate cohorts exploring AR, XR and haptics and digital space narrative.

Cohort 1 –
Lead Higher education Institution – Beyond the Zoom and Gloom: Using Augmented Reality to Enhance Distance E-learning
Cohort 2 – A ground- breaking STEAM project enabling technical and non-technical students to collaborate in the design of user-centred prototypes for XR, developing skills in visual, audio and haptic interactions.
Cohort 3 – Context Spaces: Teaching the Principles of Digital Spatial Narrative Design

Companies

StoryFutures
Royal Holloway, University of London

Also in the Higher Education Tutors – Train the Trainer programme

Abertay University

Bath Spa University

Birmingham City University

Cardiff University

De Montfort University

Falmouth University

Manchester Metropolitan University, School of Digital Arts

National Film & Television School

Queen Mary University of London in partnership with The Ideas Foundation

UCL

Ulster University

University of Greenwich

University of Plymouth

University of Surrey

University of Sussex

UWE Bristol