Grant: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1

Voilà Learning is an organization that unites hundreds of members, teachers, educators and school principals with a commongoal: to encourage students in their acquisition of the French language, and to help parents meet the needs of their childrenstudying French. Voila learning provides both private (paid) and free French tutoring and training services to school boards,corporations and private users around the globe. They unite teachers and learners through software systems and provide anumber of services to users and stakeholders such as custom learning strategies, teacher/parent resources and traditional overthe-phone / in-person tutoring.This partnership between Voila Learning and George Brown Colleges School of Design will lead to the development of new,Virtual Immersion campus that transforms the user experience of learning French through a digital platform. This will utilize gamingsoftware and design processes combined with geolocation and augmented reality technologies to create an immersive, mobilelearning experience that builds upon Voila Learnings experience in developing French training programs. The implementation ofthis new Virtual Immersion campus will be piloted with Voila Learnings existing user base of over 250,000 students. Outcomesare expected to improve Voila Learnings global reach, increase organizational efficiency and disrupt traditional language learningmodels.In support of this, George Brown College and Voila Learning will collaborate to design, develop and prototype the VirtualImmersion Campus. This includes the development of a learning management framework, game design & development, creationof the front-end portal and bug-testing/delivery of the final web-based application.