nm - Supporting Educators' Pedagogical Activities with 360°-Video

Duration: September 2019 - August 2022

Supporting Educators’ Pedagogical Activities with 360°-Video (SEPA360)

The Supporting Educators’ Pedagogical Activities with 360°-video project (SEPA360) is a European funded, Erasmus+ project for lectures, researchers and universities working, or looking to engage with the learning opportunities brought about by innovative 360°-video cameras. It features university partners from five different European countries and aims to demonstrate how the effective use of 360°-video can support and enhance the learning of university students by immersing them in real life video scenarios that they can manipulate to view as if they were actually there. The partners are developing a unique interactive platform for these video scenarios that will allow lecturers to embed hotspots, hyperlinks and other interactive media within the 360°-video and will also track their student’s interactions and movements through these scenarios. Ultimately we aim to convince university decision-makers to implement the project’s software, resources and philosophy into their own learning and teaching infrastructure to enhance the learning experiences of students across a diverse range of contexts such as field trips, placements, work experiences, and heritage visits to name but a few.

Project Partners

The SEPA360 project includes university partners from five European countries including the UK (coordinating partner), Belgium, Austria, Italy and Greece. All of the partners have experience working in European wide initiatives of this nature and bring together a range of complementary strengths and qualities to ensure its success. These include:

The University of Hull, UK: project coordinator with expertise in digital and mobile learning; immersive learning environments and participatory research methodologies
Hogeschool PXL, Haselt, Belgium: expertise in teacher education; digital technology and 360°-video; project management and technical infrastructure (responsible for developing the Vivista 360°-video platform)
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria: expertise in interactive video and 360°-video; higher education pedagogies and project management
Aristotelio University Thessalonikis, Greece: expertise in Sports science and management; European project management; dissemination and quality assurance
Universita Degli Studi Di Firenze, Italy: expertise in teaching and learning; digital technologies in learning; higher education pedagogies, project management

SEPA360 Project Coordinators

Vivista 360°-Video Editor & Player

Vivista is a 360°-video editor and player being developed as an open source software project at the PXL Hasselt. It enables users to enhance 360°-video with text, images or videos, as well as allows users to integrate interactive components such as multiple choice questions, area highlights and more. In the course of the SEPA360 project, Vivista will be further developed with a focus on user-oriented features and educational scenarios which can be implemented with Vivista.

Open Source Vivista 360°-Video Editor & Player: Latest Release

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