Nigerian Researcher Wins $234,000 Grant For Virtual Reality Project
A researcher at the Lagos Business School has won a $234,000 grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc.
The project “will explore the potentials of virtual reality for character development”, the statement said, adding, that the grant was awarded under TWCF’s Global Innovations for Character Development initiative. “We also hope to train teachers at the study schools on the new VR teaching models, so as to incorporate them into the Civics and Social Studies curriculum of secondary schools.”
Dr Ohu’s project will target an initial group of teenagers, who make up more than 60 percent of Nigeria’s population, and explore perspective-taking capabilities of VR to increase understanding for the identities of others different from ourselves.
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