CAP’VR, un projet collaboratif pour développer des travaux pratiques immersifs

The use of new immersive technologies is revolutionizing our way of teaching. As a result, teaching practices are changing for good to integrate these technological tools, especially in continuous vocational education and training and adult learning of which le Cnam is a major player in higher education landscape. CAP’VR (« Chimie Agro Pharma Virtual Reality ») has enabled the development of a virtual laboratory, immersive safety modules and common manipulations, thus showing the accessibility of these tools in higher education. CAP’VR is a federative project based on the dynamism and synergy between professors-researchers, pedagogical engineers and technicians and socio-economical partners, Mimbus and the task force of France Immersive Learning lab. Immersive modules in virtual reality are currently spread out in Ile-de-France territory and around a hundred people already discovered this project attending IT exhibitions. This article presents how the CAP’VR team was born, the development of the different immersive modules, and gives an example of a teaching sequence developed in the project.