SSAT Vibe

The VIBE helps meet the challenges of the government’s education system redesign agenda, which encourages innovative learning for 14-19-year-olds, including the launch of the Diplomas in 2008.

Part of this agenda called for practitioners to be facilitators for learning rather than knowledge gatekeepers. The VIBE enables this by embedding activities in a virtual world. Learners find their own answers, while the practitioner acts as a guide helping them through the process.

The VIBE also meets the challenge of providing learning in a practical 21st century context. As well as being a dynamic gaming computer resource, it provides real workplace scenarios which give learners a sense of what it’s like in the ‘real world’. It helps practitioners access resources and learners to visualise real-life settings to which they may have limited access in reality.

Finally, the personal learning and thinking skills and functional skills embedded in the tasks and activities of the VIBE provide transferable skills for all learners. The 14-19 redesign agenda stresses that these are the most valuable assets a learner can possess as they enter a contemporary workplace.