2021 #VWEDU: DTA: Career exploration: Nepris connects students to real-world career paths. Can virtual worlds play a role?

Career exploration:  

Nepris connects students to real-world career paths.  

Can virtual worlds play a role?

Virtual worlds can provide safe and easy access to simulated environments for any career path.  That may have advantages over a virtual visit by an expert who can tell about the career and show slides.      

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Who would be interested?

• High school teachers 
• Private schools 
• Home schoolers (search)
• Junior college and college teachers
• College recruiters (search)
• Industry recruiters
• Parents

Career exploration

• Career exploration: Educational unbundling by the internet
• Volunteer Virtual Classroom Speaker. A potential use for virtual worlds? Let's think about it.
• Career exploration online

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Nepris

• Watch on YouTube

• Nepris, inc
• Nepris playlist
• The Nepris Video Library
• Nepris videos by grade level

Is Nepris a school?

• It provides educational content.  
• It is following what used to be the textbook publisher model.
• Era of the entrepreneurial educator. The unbundling of education opens the gate for entrepreneurs.

Digital field trips for career exploration

• Digital Field trips for career exploration. On a browser? Only if you think computers will be in the future world of work.
• Educational field trips in the browser. Parental supervision as needed. No travel cost, no travel time, no school responsibility.
• Career exploration and career training. In virtual worlds, they can use the same facility. No risk, no travel. All on a laptop.

Laboratory training

• Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: BioHazard
• Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: Networking
• Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: Training, SARS testing
• Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: Virus model

Industry

• Training in digital worlds: Signature Safety: in the trenches
• Fall safety (1) : Signature Safety: Training and teaching in digital worlds
• Fall safety (2): Signature Safety: Training in digital worlds
• Residential construction: Signature Safety: Training in digital worlds And comments about unbundling.
• Heavy industry: Big equipment: Operator errors can be costly and dangerous. Simulation offers safe learning. And for teams, too.
• How to make videos in virtual worlds for illustrated instruction or for project-based learning

What advantages can a virtual world offer?

• A virtual world can live in most laptops.
• It does not go away when the class ends
• It works with remote or in-school learning or both.
• You can give home assignments:
• " Show what you learned to someone in your family and interview them about it."
• You can give team assignments:
• "Work with your team to write a report on this."
• It can respond to actions and record them:
• "Go there are do the shut-down process you saw demonstrated."

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