Virtual Reality Technology Education is Provided at MAKÜ Çavdır Vocational School
Yapılış Tarihi | 03 April 2024, Wednesday
Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University (MAKÜ) has achieved another innovation. At MAKÜ Çavdır Vocational School, Occupational Health and Safety courses are being taught with VR (Virtual Reality) Technology.
Çavdır Vocational School has enhanced the quality of education it provides to its students with a VR Technology laboratory, which is rarely found in Vocational Schools in Turkey.
In the Occupational Health and Safety training they receive with VR Technology, students gain experience in a virtual simulation created in a laboratory environment using VR electronic equipment (glasses, controller, or gloves, etc.) by dressing a mannequin in safety clothing in a virtual environment.
Innovative Education: Occupational Health and Safety Courses with VR
Stating that they have implemented the education curriculum using VR technology in the Occupational Health and Safety Laboratory, MAKÜ Çavdır MYO Director Dr. Lecturer Mehmet Öçal provided information about the application and said; “Work accidents and occupational diseases are actually one of the most important social issues in the world. At this point, in our Çavdır Vocational School, we have implemented the education curriculum using VR technology in our Occupational Health and Safety Laboratory with our program priorities that teach our students a humane working environment, healthy and safe working environments, work that befits human dignity, and the welfare of the worker. With the integration of the equipment obtained from the European Union Project carried out by our university into our university laboratory, our students will now be able to learn the use of personal protective equipment with VR technology in Çavdır, and in the future, they will be able to learn hazards and dangerous situations directly according to the application procedure within this process. In other words, we have integrated this into the curriculum. We are one of the few Vocational Schools in Turkey that have implemented this. Very few universities have VR technology directly integrated into their course curricula in a very limited number of laboratories. Our aim here is to increase the quality of the education provided to our students. With this quality, we aim to ensure that our students can find jobs much more easily in the labor market after graduation.”
Practical Training Opportunity with VR
MAKÜ Çavdır MYO Occupational Health and Safety Department Head Lecturer Tufan Şahin also pointed out that the laboratory is the most equipped laboratory in Turkey, saying; “Our Occupational Health Laboratory at Çavdır Vocational School is the largest Occupational Health and Safety Laboratory in Turkey in terms of equipment. We provided the equipment for this laboratory with our university's BAP Project. We are trying to integrate VR Technology into the project. Our biggest advantage is that due to the limitation of working and application areas in rural areas, the more sectors we can show our students, the better it will be, and with the software model of this VR Technology, we can bring all sectors to Çavdır Vocational School.” He said.
İlayda Fidangül, a first-year student of the Occupational Health and Safety Department at Çavdır Vocational School, who received Occupational Health and Safety training with VR Technology, also expressed that having such training at their school would provide them with a great advantage in their professional lives and shared her experiences about the practical training they received with VR Technology. Fidangül said, “We conduct our lessons in an applied manner with VR technology. We have a mannequin as if it were real, we dress and undress it. This training is a great advantage for us in this way.”
