Vir-Education

The complex economic political situation in Venezuela in the last decades, resulted in the deterioration of the quality of the public and private educational system. The school curriculum presents numerous pedagogical deficiencies, from preschool to high school, that do not meet the needs of the students or meet the requirements of higher education.

The development of educational content and the experience of virtual visits, aims to provide students with a sensory learning experience that encourages curiosity, research and learning in a friendly way and can be implemented in educational institutions nationwide.
The most accessible and friendly virtual technology will allow promoting equal conditions in the global education sector, students could select content according to their educational interests and motivations, break geographic barriers by taking a virtual tour to a remote place, also break barriers social or ethnic segregation.

The complex humanitarian emergency in the country and the situation of the human right to continuing education in decline. In 2018-19 it was characterized by the so-called “national educational catastrophe” characterized by:

- 45% decrease in teacher enrollment, related to low wages and economic crisis.
- High level of student absenteeism: 30% of students dropped out of schools, and only 3 million students are currently enrolled. (Encovi).
- The school curriculum presents a high level of deficiencies with an educational content gap and the student does not receive adequate academic information.
- Information is imparted to learn by heart: there are no reasoning processes and task tracking.
- Student “No Failure” Policy: Youth at the end of the school year are averaged and approved.

The development of digital educational content presents the opportunity for the Venezuelan curriculum to upgrade from traditional learning to an immersive, interactive and experience learning system.

Provide the teacher with retraining in a more educational and participatory and interactive role with the student and motivate them to return.

Provide the student with a more sensorial, experimental, participatory education system and experiment with new learning and evaluation methodologies.

1. Develop virtual educational content, aligned to the national educational plan.

2. Through virtual content technology, it is proposed to promote the renewal of the Venezuelan educational system to look at the real and immediate future needs of students, and allow them to successfully navigate education.

3. Develop virtual educational content for subjects such as Art, Culture and Geography

4. Develop contents of History (from Venezuela, Universal and Contemporary) that allow simulating historical facts and content to study as a direct witness.

5. Virtual contents of advances in science, mathematics, and technological advances such as the area of robotics and other technologies

Social focus

- Use low cost applications
- Application throughout the public educational system
- Adapted to the physical structure of the schools
- There are no geographical barriers, no social class, or ethnicity, which provides equal conditions
- Promote cultural activities and learning other languages
- The development of the critical sense of the students
- Teach to learn to learn, not to memorize
- Encourage the use of technology and the way to approach the subjects