The Bodyswaps blog

Bodyswaps' accessibility updates

As part of our mission to make Bodyswaps accessible to more learners, our team has been hard at work to implement a range of new features in our app and across our customer portal.

Brand updates

September 30th 2024

Maximise your ESSER funds before the deadline

With the deadline for spending ESSER III funds looming, it’s time for school districts to truly maximize the funding. Since ESSER I was introduced as part of the CARES Act in 2020, these stimulus bills have provided much needed support for schools across the country.To achieve these priorities,...

Higher education

August 16th 2024

FE Sussex’s Digital Transformation for Employability with the Local Skills Improvement Fund

FE Sussex and LSIF FE Sussex is a consortium of the seven Sussex FE and Sixth Form colleges. When it came to LSIF funding, the group had clear priorities surrounding enhancing employability across the colleges and sixth forms, with a focus on the soft skills so in-demand by employers. They also...

Further education

June 11th 2024

How to Measure Soft Skills for Student Readiness in a Post-Pandemic World

The importance of soft skills for student readiness The World Economic Forum Future of Jobs report predicts that by 2025 critical thinking, complex problem-solving, people management, emotional intelligence, and creativity will gain immense priority in the workplace. All of these are examples...

Higher education Further education

December 28th 2023

Life Skills for Students: Building a Foundation for Employability and Beyond

What are life skills? The World Health Organisation defines life skills as the abilities that enable people to effectively tackle the demands and challenges of everyday life. Life skills encompasses a whole variety of soft skills, but UNICEF, UNESCO, and WHO list the ten core life skills as:

Higher education Further education

December 22nd 2023

Empathy in Education: How to Help Students with Anxiety Thrive

What is anxiety? Everyone will have moments where they feel anxious - extreme feelings of nervousness that often have physical symptoms like sweating or feelings of “butterflies” in your stomach - but extended or prolonged experiences like this are often signs of an anxiety disorder. Anxiety...

Higher education Further education

December 18th 2023

6 AI- & Technology-Driven Solutions for Enhancing the Student Experience

The importance of the student experience A student’s experience at university or college can have a large impact on various aspects of their time in education. Having a good experience is important for both successful outcomes for students but also in maintaining student wellbeing. And it can...

Higher education Further education

December 14th 2023

The Power of Effective Communication in Healthcare

With plenty of research highlighting the harm that inadequate communication causes in healthcare, the question becomes how do we improve and enhance communication to fill this gap. With a focus on the UK and the US, we’ll explore the vital role of effective communication in health and...

Healthcare education Healthcare

December 12th 2023

Meet the Team: Tylar & Courtney

Get to know our team across the pond! A big highlight of our 2023 has been officially opening our US office in Raleigh, North Carolina. And we’re thrilled to introduce you to the current members of our team who are supporting things stateside. Tylar - Senior Account Executive Tylar...

Brand updates

December 1st 2023

5 Reasons Why FE & HE Institutions Should Adopt Scenario-Based Learning

Scenario-based learning has been steadily growing in popularity across education, but what exactly is it? Should you be using it in your institution? In this blog, we’ll answer those questions, plus a few more, as we define scenario-based learning and outline five reasons why further and...

Higher education Further education

November 21st 2023

Higher Education Digital Transformation: A Short Guide for HE Innovators

Know your institution could benefit from new technologies but unsure where to start? We’ve put together a guide of the key steps to consider for implementing a higher education digital transformation.

Higher education

November 17th 2023

Addressing Inequality in UK Education: Bridging the Gap for Students with SEN & ESOL Students in the Age of Digital Transformation

Students with Special Educational Needs (SEN), known as Additional Learning Needs (ALN) in Wales and Additional Support Needs (ASN) in Scotland, or students who are learning English as a Second Language (ESOL) often face tough challenges in UK education, from primary school all the way...

Higher education Further education

November 10th 2023

Enhancing Graduate Employability: Six Ways to Create Job-Ready Graduates

Students Look to the Future 49% of students stated that they consider career prospects to be the most important factor when it comes to deciding where to go to university. With students so focused on their lives after they graduate, enhancing job-readiness preparation at your institution is...

Higher education

November 3rd 2023

Meet the Team: Ryan, Elyse, and Dan

Learn some surprising facts about the Bodyswaps team Introducing: Ryan, Elyse, and Dan - three more members of our team, who all have different roles to play in creating the Bodyswaps platform and ensuring the success of our customers. In this post you’ll get to meet another member of our...

Brand updates

October 27th 2023

How to Elevate Student Engagement With the Power of Technology and AI

Introduction It’s undeniable that the merging of technology into education took a giant leap during the COVID-19 pandemic, when reliance on technology became absolutely essential to the continuation of learning. Now, in the years since the lockdowns, research is finding that over 60% of...

Higher education Further education

October 23rd 2023

How Technology and AI Can Transform Negotiation and Conflict Management in Your Business School and Beyond

It’s unquestionable that negotiations and conflicts are a part of our daily lives, impacting us both personally and professionally. From navigating disputes with friends and family to handling critical salary discussions, the ability to skilfully manage these situations can define success. ...

Higher education Corporate

October 18th 2023

Harnessing AI in Education for the Benefit of Educators and Students

Education 4.0 and the AI Revolution The ongoing flood of artificial intelligence headlines in education news clearly signifies how such advancements in technology are driving education and learning. Students of all ages are undoubtedly going to be affected by developments in AI and other...

Higher education Further education

October 11th 2023

Unlocking Educational Excellence: A Digital Transformation Framework for the Future

What is Digital Transformation? The world of education is undoubtedly becoming more and more digital as the days go by - with a lot of this transition exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, enrollment in online education surged by 170% following the pandemic, and Open and Distance Learning...

Higher education Further education

October 5th 2023

Meet the Team: Paige, Charlotte, and Shubham

More of the team from behind the scenes at Bodyswaps In the last one of our ‘Meet the Team’ blog post series we introduced you to Liz, Laura, and Janie. Today, it’s the turn of Paige, Charlotte, and Shubham - with quite the variety of job roles to discover. Like last time, we asked them about...

Brand updates

September 29th 2023

Meet the Team: Liz, Laura and Janie

Get to know the team behind Bodyswaps. Here at Bodyswaps our team is evolving faster than ever to support the growing demand for our immersive soft skills training platform. This is the first in a series of blog posts where we’ll introduce you to a few of the faces at Bodyswaps - if you’re...

Brand updates

August 29th 2023

The Royal Society of Medicine - Difficult health conversations are no game

Having difficult conversations with patients is an undeniable reality in healthcare. VR could transform how they unfold. A blog post for the British Medical Journal by Professor Dame Lesley Fallowfield

Healthcare education Healthcare

July 6th 2023

University of Northampton - Creating new opportunities with VR and AI

The University of Northampton’s Waterside Campus was created to bring in new and emerging digital practices and technologies to supplement students’ learning, including virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR).

Higher education

June 14th 2023

Southampton City Council - DWP minister visits Southampton for AI-powered job seeking scheme

A work and pensions minister who used to be the MP for Eastleigh returned to Southampton today to see how AI and virtual reality (VR) are helping young people into work.

Corporate

May 25th 2023

University of the District of Columbia - Integrating Virtual Reality into HR Management Course

The University of the District of Columbia is integrating Bodyswaps as part of their Human Resources Management course.

Higher education

March 30th 2023

King's College - Occupational Therapy instructors launch virtual reality program

King’s College occupational therapy students can now better develop essential patient interaction skills through a pilot virtual reality program made possible by the Meta x Bodyswaps Educational Grant.

Higher education Healthcare education

March 12th 2023

The College of New Jersey - New virtual reality tool helps nursing students find their voice

There’s a lot of serious training that goes into being a nurse: running an IV drip, drawing blood, checking vital signs. But a big component of the profession — how to compassionately and effectively communicate — can be challenging to practice in the classroom. ...

Higher education

February 23rd 2023