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Silicon Valley-based company Eon Reality has donated US$25 million to the UWI Open Campus for a “global online strategy.”
In a release on Thursday, UWI said the donation will assist in setting up an interactive digital centre/lab “primarily for the development of content using augmented and virtual reality tools.”
It explained, “This alliance makes The UWI the first institution in the English-speaking Caribbean to have an Eon XR Lab. The hub of the Eon XR Lab is earmarked to be located at The UWI Open Campus site in Chaguanas, TT.
“During the five-year project, The UWI Open Campus will be able to offer training to UWI-wide faculty on the Eon XR cloud platform as well as student internships to those interested in learning how to develop content using this technology.”
It said the cloud platform has already been delivered and staff training of staff begin next week.
Pro Vice-Chancellor, global affairs and principal of the campus Dr Luz Longsworth said the initiative will allow the university to “leapfrog” into international access of the university’s courses and programmes.
“This signals a new move forward for developing exciting content for our online and blended programmes,” she said.
The release said, “This latest collaboration for The UWI in garnering international resources to support its global agenda opens up a whole new world for programmes in areas such as engineering, medicine, science and technology to develop content that can enhance the students’ learning experience in an online environment, and helps overcome some of the limitations that the institution has faced in taking its programmes online.”
Vice-Chancellor Prof Sir Hilary Beckles congratulated the team on the “game-changing resources,”
He said, “This collaboration will provide the impetus for realising The UWI's global campus initiative, our future without borders.”
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