Indeed, the 21st-century dynamic and competitive employment and labor market require Higher Education (HE) graduates to be equipped with a substantial degree of knowledge and skills. Comparable to knowledge, skills can be domain-specific or domain-general. Both types of skills are crucial for a well-crafted HE program graduate. To provide students with key skills and the chance to test, experience, and integrate them, institutions should not merely rely on short work placements and industrial training programs. Students should be given the opportunity to sharpen their competencies, acquire, and develop the right skills, technical and non-technical, throughout their study life. Virtual reality, as a revolutionary technology, can support achieving that. In this paper, a web-based environment enhanced with VR framework is proposed to enable students to increase their knowledge, experiences, and gain employability skills progressively for the duration of their study journey. The environment, accessible starting from the first year, provides the students with the opportunity to be engaged with a professional setting and immersed in interactive experiences to gradually, effectively, and affordably experiment concepts, enhance their skills and develop new ones. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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