BRITISH TECH COMPANIES ARE LEADING THE GLOBAL RACE TO INNOVATE THE TECH EDUCATION METAVERSE-CREDERSI WORLD SCIENCE & TECH CAMPUS:
EDUCATING AND TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF DATA SCIENTISTS, LAB TECHNICIANS, CYBER DEFENDERS AND PROGRAMMERS
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wo of Manchester’s leading tech companies are leading the race to innovate the global education metaverse with their own science and tech campus, Credersi World, using a mixed reality platform that includes virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). While Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has outlined his vision of what a global metaverse might look like, tech and science educators Credersi and 3D tech innovators PixelMax are at the forefront of developing and shaping what the education metaverse will actually be. Tech disruptors Credersi
and PixelMax are already making this a reality and for the last 12 months, they have been developing and creating their own virtual science and tech campus. ‘Credersi World’ is an immersive platform in which students – and employers who want their workforces reskilled for careers of the future – shape their learning in a virtual campus world, complete with shops, cinemas, art galleries, wellbeing rooms and food and coffee shops by using immersive mixed reality technologies. The concept for Credersi World was to create a virtual science and tech campus that could train and reskill
workforces of the future in an immersive and engaging way. The Covid pandemic has resulted in more people than ever before taking up training and learning with a view to reskilling for a career of the future. Credersi co-founders Darren Coomer and Andy Lord saw how the pandemic had impacted university students and those in further education courses. Many students were struggling to keep up with remote learning on platforms such as Zoom and Teams and maintain their engagement to learning. At the same time, through their tech training company Credersi, europeanbusinessmagazine.com 55
