{"id":3822,"date":"2024-01-18T10:31:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T13:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.usp.br\/labartemidia\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2024-06-03T17:19:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T20:19:06","slug":"coil-vsat-project-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.usp.br\/labartemidia\/en\/coil-vsat-project-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"COIL\/VSAT Project 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The COIL\/VSAT (Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) \/ Virtual Storytelling Application and Toolkit (VSAT) project was carried out in the first half of 2023 under an agreement between the School of Communications and Arts at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo in Brazil and Oxford Brookes University (OBU) in the UK. The project included the participation of 11 undergraduate and postgraduate students from both universities, who created documentaries and narratives in VR and Fotosfera 360, in fiction and non-fiction.<\/p>

The agreement brought together the School of English and Modern Languages, the School of History, Philosophy and Culture and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY (OBU), and, at the UNIVERSITY OF SAO PAULO (USP), the School of Communications and Arts, through LabArteM\u00eddia (Laboratory of Art, Media and Digital Technologies), the Department of Cinema, Radio and Television and the Postgraduate Program in Audiovisual Media and Processes. In Brazil, coordination was by Almir Almas and in the UK by Eric White, Athene Reiss and Andrew Philip.<\/p>

At USP, the project included undergraduate students from the Audiovisual Course, the Department of Cinema, Radio and Television, a post-doctoral student from the CTR and researchers from the LabArteM\u00eddia research group, including a professor from UFRJ. At OBU, it took place through independent study modules, and included students from Anthropology, Criminology, English Literature, Geography and Art History. The aim of the agreement is academic cooperation in the areas of Cinema and Audiovisual, Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Realities and Immersive Environments, in order to promote the exchange of teachers\/researchers, postgraduate students, undergraduate students (with mutual recognition of undergraduate studies) and members of the technical-administrative team from the respective institutions.<\/p>

The project is a pedagogical tool that facilitates virtual mobility to develop global collaboration on employability, skills, understanding and friendship between universities and their teaching and student bodies.<\/p>

Together, OBU and USP explored the potential of the VSAT platform in order to build different kinds of narratives over the course of three months. To this end, the teachers involved gave participants workshops on how to use the technology. Then, in the execution phase, the students worked collaboratively to develop ideas, build narrative structures and solve problems that arose when the technology was tested.<\/p>

VSAT is an open-source platform that allows users to create an immersive and interactive ‘photosphere’ narrative experience in less than two hours. All you need to do is use 360-degree photographs and VR glasses. The application, available on the web, allows users with no previous experience of virtual reality or programming to combine images and texts in imaginative ways. In this way, they organically acquire design and creative writing skills.<\/p>

According to its creators, “In a Higher Education learning context, we propose implementing this tool for the following purposes:<\/p>