ThingLink for Higher Education

Instantly engage students with immersive and interactive learning materials that are fast and cost-effective to create. Reach more potential students with virtual tours of facilities.

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Skills Development Virtual Labs Virtual Field Trips
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Helps students prepare strategies for real-life situations

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When used in teams, demonstrates importance of working together: communication and delegation skills improve.

Students experience realistic pressure and experience how they react to decision-making under stress.

“An innovative way...to stimulate interpersonal skills such as teamwork and communication skills. It also helps us to learn about how a team can operate under stressful situations and what skills we need in order to provide care efficiently.”

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University of Central Lancashire Medical School created ThingLink virtual escape rooms to train students in time-critical emergencies.

97%

agreed that it stimulated/challenged their thinking and would recommend it to other students.

99%

positive feedback from students and staff

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Keele University created example Virtual Labs for students to virtually analyze samples where the instruments provide data from real life data sets.

Ideal as introductory or refresher material

Students can acquire skills and experience with valuable instruments much faster - saving student/staff time, and keeping students and equipment safe.

“Users found them to be high quality, highly accessible, and inclusive resources."

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Improves access for anyone less able to access a real lab environment.

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Instruments are available for students to practice with at any time.

Increased student numbers: courses opened up to international students or those with other physical limitations.

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Ideal as revision material

“ThingLink was the easiest part of the process - it was so intuitive”

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Queens University Belfast created award-winning virtual field trips for Conservation Biology Post-Grads.

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Ideal when students have to self-isolate or are otherwise unable to attend in-person.

Overseas/long-distance experiences open to all students: no need for expensive and time-intensive travel

Improved access to locations in inhospitable areas due to terrain or weather

90%

positive feedback from students , who received virtually identical grades vs years when real life field trips were used.

Benefits

Easily create your own bespoke materials at low cost.

  • Use your existing resources to create tailored interactive materials which instantly engage your students.
  • Save time and create immersive 360 tours, trips or virtual labs using a smartphone camera.
  • Cut down on creation time by sharing and collaborating with colleagues.
  • Familiarise science students with valuable, fragile or potentially hazardous resources by creating virtual labs.
  • Increase inclusivity for all learners with ThingLink’s range of built-in accessibility features.
  • Cut down on travel time, staff resources and cost by creating virtual field trips.
  • Genuinely useful insights: Individual learning paths help you identify student learning needs. Engagement stats help you improve learning materials.

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Desarrollo de capacidades y habilidades en entornos del mundo real

Los paseos y recorridos virtuales brindan a los alumnos acceso a entornos y situaciones del mundo real que de otro modo estarían fuera de su alcance. Las imágenes y los vídeos interactivos en 360° ayudan a desarrollar la comprensión contextual, el vocabulario académico y las habilidades en ubicaciones, culturas, entornos de trabajo o situaciones sociales remotas.

Campus tour Course Materials Field Trips Infographics Virtual Labs and workshops Interactive Maps Escape Rooms Event Graphics Virtual Orientations

University of Rochester Medical Center presents their expansive campus to stakeholders with this interactive virtual tour.

Queens University Belfast - Course Teaching Materials.

University of Southampton Coastal Ecology Course, Pre-Field Trip Orientation

One Page Infographic for Skills Development

360 Video of Vertex Laboratory Tour

LUCA School of Arts, Belgium. Interactive Campus Map

University of Central Lancashire Medical School. Clues Identification for Patient Care Skills

ALT Conference - flat image with links to sign up, agenda and padlet of talks

Virtual Orientation of University of Calgary Library

Create your own Campus Tours to welcome visitors and new starters

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Create your own Campus Tours to welcome visitors and new starters

  • Open up admissions and enquiries to more international students: Create Virtual Open days for prospective students who can't visit in person.
  • Reduce pre-term worries for freshers: Create interactive guides so they can familiarise themselves before arriving.
  • Reduce workload for admin and facilities staff: Include links and how-to guides to resources like libraries, sports facilities and welfare services.
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  • Open up admissions and enquiries to more international students: Create Virtual Open days for prospective students who can't visit in person.
  • Reduce pre-term worries for freshers: Create interactive guides so they can familiarise themselves before arriving.
  • Reduce workload for admin and facilities staff: Include links and how-to guides to resources like libraries, sports facilities and welfare services.
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Using ThingLink in VR/AR: we've got you covered in all viewing modes

Training using VR and AR is proven to be significantly faster, more focussed and more cost-effective than traditional training methods.

ThingLink works with all major headsets and shared spaces, you can create completely immersive learning experiences in any context -360 and Real Time 3D.

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Training using VR and AR is proven to be significantly faster, more focussed and more cost-effective than traditional training methods.

ThingLink works with all major headsets and shared spaces, you can create completely immersive learning experiences in any context -360 and Real Time 3D.

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Prepare students for a seamless transition to the workplace with real-life learning scenarios

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Prepare students for a seamless transition to the workplace with real-life learning scenarios

  • ThingLink's Scenario Builder replicates realistic challenges in real-world environments.
  • Add time limits to your scenarios for more realistic pressure.
  • Track progress and path for each learner.
  • Easily update your scenario materials in real time dependant on feedback and performance.
  • ThingLink's Scenario Builder replicates realistic challenges in real-world environments.
  • Add time limits to your scenarios for more realistic pressure.
  • Track progress and path for each learner.
  • Easily update your scenario materials in real time dependant on feedback and performance.

Integrate ThingLink with your current ecosystem

With ThingLink you can create a virtual campus tour in no time!

  • Supports LTI 1.3.
  • Integrates with Office 365 for Microsoft PowerPoint, Teams and more.
  • Integrates with Google Workspace.
  • Share content to any LMS.
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ThingLink Editor

With ThingLink you can create a virtual campus tour in no time!

  • Supports LTI 1.3.
  • Integrates with Office 365 for Microsoft PowerPoint, Teams and more.
  • Integrates with Google Workspace.
  • Share content to any LMS.
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ThingLink rated Best Virtual Tour Software in 2022 by industry experts

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ThingLink rated Best Virtual Tour Software in 2022 by industry experts

VR trainees make fewer mistakes in real-life situations, with huge benefits for high-risk environment vocational training.

Recent research concluded that VR trainees:

  • Demonstrated a 250% improvement in skills.
  • Were 29% faster.
  • Made 6x fewer errors.
  • Were 4x more focussed.
  • Made 50% of the errors than the control groups trained in traditional methods.

VR trainees make fewer mistakes in real-life situations, with huge benefits for high-risk environment vocational training.

Recent research concluded that VR trainees:

  • Demonstrated a 250% improvement in skills.
  • Were 29% faster.
  • Made 6x fewer errors.
  • Were 4x more focussed.
  • Made 50% of the errors than the control groups trained in traditional methods.

Research findings

"ThingLink is relatively simple for students to master and is a highly effective tool that can be used to enhance and assess students' ability…and to engage students in the course material."

From: Fostering Student Engagement with Digital Microscopic Images Using ThingLink, an image Annotation Programme by Pierette Apasamy Journal of College Science Teaching Vol 47May/June 2018

"Overall, one of the greatest strengths of the Thinglink platform is its simplicity and user-friendliness, allowing users to easily create and disseminate immersive, interactive learning materials with very little training time. This permits the creation of bespoke digital learning resources that adhere to modern principles of curriculum design and, on an institutional level, educational vision and strategy".

From ThingLink and the Laboratory: Interactive Simulations of Analytical Instrumentation for HE Science Curricula, Adam J. Jeffery et al, Journal of Chemical Education issue 14, June 2022

"Students felt more engaged with the histology concepts while they were creating their ThingLink workshop…student responses suggested a much deeper level of interaction with the material, and this may result in a greater retention and augmented understanding

From ThingLink and the Laboratory: Interactive Simulations of Analytical Instrumentation for HE Science Curricula, Adam J. Jeffery et al, Journal of Chemical Education issue 14, June 2022

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Pricing for Higher Education

ThingLink – easily create accessible, engaging, interactive and impactful learning experiences.

Academic License

Supports a modern online learning infrastructure with advanced features and analytics. Ideal for secondary and higher education institutions building virtual environments, scenario-based learning experiences and simulations for student learning.

$9/year/seat

Minimum order 250 seats

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Includes:

  • Scenario builder (with learner data collection)
  • Data collection on LMS
  • Unlimited publishing of 3D models
  • Publish 10TB of 360° videos
  • Onboarding & training
  • Option for design & production services
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