Empowering Students | Elevating Community Impact ____________________________________________________________________ As the largest university in North Texas, UNT faces both opportunities and challenges in preparing students for a rapidly evolving workforce. Immersive learning technologies help by providing scalable, high-quality experiences where students can develop interpersonal skills in low-stakes virtual environments. This expanded responsibility will require a redesign of both curricula and student support structures to ensure a well-coordinated new approach to workforce readiness. We respectfully request a gift of $1.5 million to establish the DATCU Career Readiness Initiative.
Mixed-reality simulation provides practical teaching experience for UNT students -- minus the classroom
Immersive Learning Technologies ____________________________________________________________________ UNT’s award-winning Mursion Lab, a state-of-the-art mixed-reality simulation, will serve as a cornerstone of this exciting initiative designed to help students and professionals refine essential skills in a safe, controlled setting. DATCU’s leadership in expanding the lab’s capabilities and its application to workforce readiness as part of the DATCU Career Readiness Initiative will create immediate impact for students and the university across multiple dimensions: Student Success: Preparing students for interviews, internships and careers through practical simulations. In particular, the Mursion Lab excels at preparing students for high-stakes interactions, such as internship and first job destination interviews and the facilitation of small-group meetings and learning environments, ensuring students will be equipped with skills to succeed at multiple stages of their career journeys. Innovation: Expanding lab functionality to include new immersive learning scenarios such as small-group facilitation and negotiation scenarios, along with associated staffing and equipment to serve more than 1,200 students. This expansion will increase the scope and capacity of the Mursion Lab to provide workforce readiness programs to students at UNT’s Denton campus, while also advancing plans to further scale the lab’s programs remotely, potentially reaching thousands more students across UNT’s campuses. Research: Establishing UNT as a leader in simulation-based learning research, including behavior analysis initiatives to integrate evidence-based training, improve educational outcomes and assess the lab’s impact on successful student workforce outcomes. Faculty Development: Training UNT faculty and staff to enable integration of Mursion Lab simulations into their various curricula, thus empowering educators across multiple disciplines with tools to create engaging, hands-on learning experiences.
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