The European project in which the Degree of Education of the UCAM participates together with five entities from Turkey, Greece and Poland, proposes the inclusion of virtual reality tools as an educational complement to the traditional curriculum at the primary and secondary levels, to develop the skills of gifted students throughout Europe.
The consortium consists of Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University-Comu (Turkey), San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia (Spain), University of Macedonia (Greece), APEC Egitim Danismanlik Ltd (Turkey), Spoleczna Akademia Nauk (Poland) and Nara Egitim Teknolojileri AS (Turkey),
For 24 months, the project partners, framed in the Erasmus + program, will elaborate a teaching guide taking care of the needs of these students in the different countries collaborating with the project and will mark the guidelines to be taken into account by the teachers.
According to the Ministry of Education, in the academic year 2016-17 there were 27,133 non-university students in Spain classified as highly qualified, with an increase of 40% in the last three years.
However, experts say there are many more, since 180,000 students with CI of 130 or higher are at these levels.
In 2000, the Ministry acknowledged that 70% of compulsory education students have low school performance, and 35% and 50% fail because they are not properly detected, evaluated and attended.
Source: UCAM