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The Ministry of Education, represented by the Directorate-General of Curriculum Development (Citizenship Department), implemented yesterday (Tuesday) morning a training program entitled: "Educating Citizenship and Virtual Museums.” The program targeting 30 employees of the Ministry's General Diwan and the Oman Through Time Museum, took place at the Specialized Institute for Professional Training for Teachers.

This training program, presented by Dr. Basma bint Hamad Al Riyami, Educational Researcher at the Citizenship Department of the Directorate-General of Curriculum Development, comes to introduce virtual museums and their importance, objectives, features, and characteristics, especially after the increase in the number of museums around the world, and the spacing of distances between them on the one hand, and the desire of many to view their holdings, especially students and researchers in specialized fields. Due to this, some of these museums use virtual reality technology – especially educational museums and science museums – to be virtual museums that include a group of 2D or 3D digital objects that suggest to visitors that the exhibited collections are in their natural environment, the mechanism of their use in the educational process, citizenship education, their design standards, and the standards for designing the content of the e-course in them, by displaying some practical applications and uses of virtual reality software in teaching, as well as training in designing interactive educational activities, linking them to the curricula, learning how to use virtual reality glasses and connecting them to a phone or other portable digital devices, and learning about models of platforms and websites that allow virtual museums.