TALIA - Teaching and Learning Immersive Authoring platform
Virtual or immersive experiences used to be time consuming to make. The technical assistance required in production made them prohibitively expensive. We wanted to develop a simple tool for users of all skill levels to design and create their own immersive experiences, such as (but not limited to) virtual field trips (VFTs), lab or building tours, quickly and independently.
... and we did!
Now you can take advantage of this tool to create your own engaging learning experiences (or even get your students to create their own)!
Project Details
In 2021, academics joined forces with the PVCESE Innovation Pillar immersive development and learning design teams to create a new virtual field trip platform (immersive editor) to bridge the gap between the technical knowledge needed to make an interactive spatialised experience and the ability for academics to create them with little to no help.
TALIA - Teaching and Learning Immersive Authoring platform - is as simple to use as PowerPoint. Talia enables users of all technical abilities to create the immersive environment by drag-dropping 360o images and videos, easily add hotspots, navigation and instructions for rich, engaging learning experiences for or by the students.
Using the pedagogical framework and the Talia platform, Associate Professor Carol Oliver and Associate Lecturer David Edwards from the Faculty of Science produced two virtual field trips (VFTs) to deliver in their courses in T3 2021. With additional features and functions delivered through 2022 and 2023, the VFTs were refined and delivered multiple times, again with very positive feedback - one student said she showed it to her grandparents who also thought it was amazing and reported "even they could find their way around it and understand!".
The technology being used for the creation is a Unity core supported by a PHP web stack with webGL and now VR builds.
Teaser Video
Get Involved
TALIA community
- Join the Team: TALIA Community (UNSW Teams link)
- Collaborate: share ideas and questions on Talia.
- Content: get access to demo 360 images and videos.
Try it out
- Get creating: TALIA Platform Link
- Published example: Pilbara virtual field trip from BEES6741 2024.
- Guidance: Talia - Pedagogical Considerations for staff (Internal UNSW Link)
Get in touch
- Email: [email protected]