3D visuals increase students' engagement and knowledge retention. They provide the opportunity to learn by interacting and doing rather than passively receiving information. Visual literacy skills are increasingly in demand and need to be developed alongside traditional forms of literacy. 3D visuals allow for experimentation, exploration, collaboration and can bring real-world vocational applications into the classroom.

Teaching Tools and Professional Development
The Nextspace team includes award-winning educationalists with experience at primary, secondary and university levels who can support teachers to use 3D visualisation as a strategic teaching tool. 3D models and simulations can be used in almost any curriculum area, not just the technology stream.

Services:

• Curriculum Resources. 3D models can illustrate or simulate key objects from any subject area, bringing real-world or inaccessible objects into the classroom. They are easily accessible in common formats like PDFs, websites, Word or PowerPoint documents running on regular classroom PCs.  Animations, step-by-step instructions and interactions can let students learn at their own pace, as well as interact and add their own comments. Esperient Creator and Deep Exploration software can be used to create and manipulate models, or access growing libraries of models for educational use online.
• Customised E-learning Delivery. Learning by doing has been shown to be more effective than static instructions or demonstrations.  Interactive 3D models and environments can be integrated into e-learning programmes.  Nextspace’s consultants have strong educational and training credentials to design e-learning programmes that meet your objectives.
• Professional Development.  Nextspace offers professional development programmes at its fully-equipped Innovation Centre to help teachers bring 3D visualisation into the classroom in ways that further learning outcomes. These can be tailored to support any curriculum area, not just technology.  
• Mentoring. Our award-winning Educational Specialist has several years experience empowering teachers and students alike to apply a range of technologies to the classroom. Groups or individuals can be mentored to ensure 3D visualisation is used strategically.

Powerful Creation Tools
Students, and teachers, can illustrate their understanding of concepts by creating or modifying models in 3D. For instance, students could annotate a 3D model of the Globe Theatre to explain its operations as part of a Shakespeare assessment, or identify components of an engine for Physics or Technology units.

Services:

• 3D Creation Tools. Our partners’ software lets you either create 3D models from scratch, import it from various libraries, or even adapt real-world engineering and CAD (Computer Aided Design) data for use in teaching or assessment. Rather than providing cut-down educational versions of software, Nextspace makes world-leading software from Right Hemisphere and Esperient available at significant discounts – in many cases over 90% off the commercial price.
• Industry Connections. Nextspace’s partnerships span industry and education, and we are often able to put students in touch with real world problems to solve or case studies to learn from. We can also provide 3D models derived from real-world architectural or CAD data, so students learn from simulations not approximations.

Sharing and Collaboration
3D assets, created by students as part of assessment and learning or by educators, can be easily shared – with classmates or with tutors for appraisal.

Services:

• 3D Publishing Tools. Right Hemisphere’s Deep Exploration can convert your 3D models so they can be used on regular PCs in common documents formats like PDFs, websites, Word or PowerPoint.
• 3D Collaboration Systems. Right Hemisphere software and 3D model viewers allows students to add comments and questions to models – integrating discussion with accurate easy-to-comprehend models. This can be done individually or with collections of models.

Efficient Assessment
Technology can help manage the task of assessing students’ portfolios – a complex task due to the volume of student work, as well as the technical demands of storing 3D models and associated multimedia.

Services:

• Asset Management. Right Hemisphere’s world-leading Integration and Collaboration solutions can automatically manage large collections of 3D assets and multimedia and organise them by student, project or class. It can also automate publishing into common document formats and record key information against each asset such as student grades, link to curriculum units and a record of revisions.  
• 3D for Learning Management Systems. Nextspace’s systems integration and consulting expertise can integrate a 3D asset management solution with your existing learning management and school management systems. This can facilitate sharing of 3D model curriculum resources and record assessments and student work centrally.

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