VReiraum – An interdisciplinary makerspace in the context of future skills

In order to prepare students for digital conditions in today’s society, higher education must introduce innovative concepts. This is especially crucial for student teachers, who need to foster those competencies in classrooms by incorporating interdisciplinary approaches. For this reason, the VReiraum project established an interdisciplinary makerspace in higher education in collaboration with six disciplines, which already use virtual reality and augmented reality in their teaching. Technologies from these disciplines are already part of the lives of children and young people and are also becoming more important in the classroom. The aim of the present project was to foster competencies related to virtual and augmented reality in education, and this paper explores the requirements of this approach and evaluates empirical findings in the context of future skills.