Refugee Interactive Skills for Employment
End date: Aug 6, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
RISE tackled the barriers to employment faced by refugees by using a user sensitive development methodology that positioned our target audience as 'Design Partners' in the development of serious games to develop VET skills. The materials developed can: 1. Reduce skills gaps 2. Develop key competencies in Vocational Language Learning and pre-vocational skills gaps.3. Increase the numbers of refugees entering work.The RISE team undertook the following steps to achieve the project goals:•Developed a methodology, methods and tools for analysis of the user group needs•Established user groups•Wrote a User/Stakeholder report•Mapped all relevant stakeholders•Carried out investigation into perceived skills for employment•Worked with end user groups in a series of co-design workshops to develop the learning objectives, content specification, aims & learning outcomes for the curriculum and games•Produced empirical research reports in each partner country and a combined report.•Reviewed available game environments and editors including those from the LLP GOAL, GOET and PAUSE projects against the needs of the curriculum, learning content, games narrative and formal Games Design Doc.•Referenced this review against the functionality of the Unity Authoring Environment and the PAUSE project tools to determine suitability•Identified the curriculum content and learning content for design of the games •Collaboratively produced the final games design documents and curriculum•Created 4 games, 2 for Windows desktops, and 2 for Android devices•Developed 10 'added value' games with NTU undergraduate computing students• Completed, testing and piloting the games with stakeholders• Created a full curriculum and trainers’ handbook complete with a set of comprehensive lesson plans in both the partner languages.•Carried out a workshop at ITAG 14 to demonstrate the finalised resources developed in the project•Produced a final Impact and Sustainability Report, and an evaluation report
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