Instructional Design in Virtual Reality Environments: The case of Palestinian HEIs

The core aim of the paper is to present the results of facing the challenge of instructional design in a Virtual Reality environment in the context of the capacity building Erasmus+ KA2 project “Virtual Reality as an Innovative and Immersive Tool for HEIs in Palestine (TESLA)”. The instructional design concerns the development of educational courses based on Virtual Worlds technology for use in Palestinian Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs). Given that existing instructional design models were not sufficient for the above task, the team of the University of Patras (UPAT) developed the project's Instructional Design Model, as an integration of existing models, supporting the technological design with an efficient pedagogical well-structured framework.