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text: `VirtualShip provides educators with a modular framework to integrate virtual oceanographic fieldwork into higher education curricula.


The package combines open educational resources, scientific simulation software, and immersive VR material to support teaching activities ranging from introductory BSc Marine Science courses to advanced data-driven research projects across a range of disciplines. Lesson plans, tutorials, and assignments allow instructors to alternately emphasise proposal writing, fieldwork planning, virtual deployments, or data analysis depending on course and cohort objectives.

The [VirtualShip Classroom](https://virtualship.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user-guide/teacher-content/index.html) has already been implemented successfully across eight BSc and MSc-level course cycles at Utrecht University and is designed to be adaptable for use beyond Utrecht.
The [VirtualShip Classroom](https://virtualship.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user-guide/user-profiles/educators/index.html) has already been implemented successfully across eight BSc and MSc-level course cycles at Utrecht University and is designed to be adaptable for use beyond Utrecht.

[Lesson plans](https://edusources.nl/materials/76082735-37b6-4ef2-b782-6903f09b4b1a/virtual-sea-going-marine-science-fieldwork-with-virtualship), [tutorials](https://virtualship.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user-guide/tutorials/index.html), and [assignments](https://virtualship.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user-guide/assignments/index.html) allow instructors to alternately emphasise proposal writing, fieldwork planning, virtual deployments, or data analysis depending on course and cohort objectives.

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alt: '360 video preview from the RV Pelagia chemistry lab',
},
],
text: `Researchers can design, test, and optimise oceanographic sampling strategies with VirtualShip's flexible Python package before going to sea. [Current implementations](https://virtualship.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user-guide/documentation/full_sensor_list.html) include instruments such as CTDs, ADCPs, Argo floats, and drifters, with several others in development.
text: `Researchers can design, test, and optimise oceanographic sampling strategies with VirtualShip's flexible Python package before going to sea. See the [Researcher guide](https://virtualship.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user-guide/user-profiles/researchers/index.html) for more information.

[Current implementations](https://virtualship.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user-guide/documentation/full_sensor_list.html) include instruments such as CTDs, ADCPs, Argo floats, and drifters, with several others in development.

Researchers are very much encouraged to [contribute](https://virtualship.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/index.html) workflows, instrument modules, and scientific applications to co-develop the VirtualShip ecosystem as open-source software towards virtual marine fieldwork.

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