EXPERIENCE OF INTERNATIONAL INTERNSHIP IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECTS WITH ELEMENTS OF VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY

During 2023, students and researchers of the Computer Science Department of Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University together with their colleagues from Anhalt University of Applied Sciences worked on a joint project to teach children with special needs at the Department of Physics and Mathematics. The jointly planned and developed projects for teaching children with special needs using VR and AR technologies at the STEM Centre of TNPU. Virtual reality sessions were organised for children with disabilities to help them learn about the world around them, socialise and communicate. This helped children with disabilities to overcome social and psychological barriers, understand complex mechanisms of work, and learn about phenomena through their models.