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Applied Sciences (Switzerland)

Published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

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An Overview of Commercial Virtual Reality Providers in Education: Mapping the Current Market Landscape

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In recent years, virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a pivotal technology in the field of education, offering immersive and interactive experiences that have the potential to significantly enhance teaching and learning processes. However, for educational designers, teachers, and lecturers who lack a…

Rapid Risk Assessment in Industry: Increasing Awareness of Worker Safety in Industrial Activities

Article Open Access
When training engineers and team leaders, it is crucial to focus on cultivating essential skills for safety at work, required in both theoretical design and practical application. One such crucial skill is the ability to assess professional risks across all engineering domains. To promote sustainabl…

Applying Design Thinking to Enhance Programming Education in Vocational and Compulsory Secondary Schools

Article Open Access
A proper and complete formation in technology (science, communications, programming, robotics, Computational Thinking, etc.) must be imparted at all educational levels for a lifelong education. However, students may lose motivation or interest due to the complexity and abstraction of some of the con…

Design of Intelligent Management Platform for Industry–Education Cooperation of Vocational Education by Data Mining

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Data are playing an increasingly important role in the development of industry–education cooperation strategies in vocational education and training. The objective of this study was to promote the comprehensive progress of an industry–education cooperation system and improve the effect of the applic…

Towards the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals through Engineering Training for Labor Market Reintegration of Older Workers

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The inclusion of training in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in higher education is essential to achieve them. In addition, labor market reintegration or improvement of older workers is a goal that an increasing number of people have set for themselves, especially in countries severely affe…

Mobile learning technologies for education: Benefits and pending issues

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Today’s world demands more efficient learning models that allow students to play a more active role in their education. Technology is having an impact on how instruction is delivered and how information is found and share. Until very recently, the educational models encouraged memorization as an ess…

Jupyter notebooks in undergraduate mobile robotics courses: Educational tool and case study

Article Open Access
Jupyter notebooks are recently emerging as a valuable pedagogical resource in academy, being adopted in educational institutions worldwide. This is mainly due to their ability to combine the expressiveness of traditional explanations from textbooks, with the interaction capabilities of software appl…

Academic proposal for heritage intervention in a BIM environment for a 19th century flour factory

Article Open Access
The implementation of building information modeling (BIM) has become a reality worldwide, not only because of the advantages it offers, but also because of the obligatory nature of its use in construction and civil engineering projects in various countries around the world. An intervention project o…

Introduction of building information modeling in industrial engineering education: Students' perception

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The building information modeling (BIM) methodology is becoming a mandatory requirement in the development of projects within the world context. Consequently, technical schools have been introducing BIM in their curricula. The present study aims to evaluate student perceptions concerning the advanta…