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        <article-title>Management of the International Educational Project on Teaching XR Technologies</article-title>
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          <string-name>Tetiana Shestakevych</string-name>
          <email>tetiana.v.shestakevych@lpnu.ua</email>
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          <institution>Lviv Polytechnic National University</institution>
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          <addr-line>Stepana Bandery Street 12, Lviv, 79021</addr-line>
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          <country country="UA">Ukraine</country>
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        <p>Ukraine has successful experience in the implementation of international educational projects. To support such projects, European Union holds the Erasmus+ programme for education, training, youth and sport. With such support, Ukrainian academics can implement their educational initiatives, so students receive a chance to gain more knowledge in related, or even quite new branches of knowledge. For an educator who has thought through the educational component of a potential project, the lack of skills in project development and management may be an obstacle to proper project submission. Understanding an educational project as a business process makes it possible to use project management methods and tools for modeling and implementing such projects. This paper examines Gantt charts, Osterwalder's business model, and other project management approaches as useful tools in designing and managing an educational project. The Alexander Osterwalder`s Business Model Canvas is a laconic visual tool, used to describe and design a business model, enabling analysis of the customer types, key resources and activities, etc. This tool allows educational project developers to crystallize an understanding of educational values that will be given within a project, how to create educational activities, who the partners are, and what resources are needed to operate. According to the developed method of the educational project design and maintenance with project management tools, the adapted Business Model Canvas can be later transformed into a funding call application, as shown with Jean Monnet Module, the European Union initiative for higher education. The Jean Monnet Module application can be specified using the Gantt chart as a project management tool for planning and scheduling project tasks, as well as allocating resources. This paper demonstrates means and tools for educational project management used in a project for teaching XR technologies customized to match the demands of specialists in the education of children with special needs. Some online tools for developing the Business Model Canvas and Gantt charts are presented. Casually, the agile methodology was used to describe the educational project lifecycle.</p>
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        <kwd>international educational project</kwd>
        <kwd>Jean Monnet Module</kwd>
        <kwd>XR technologies</kwd>
        <kwd>Business Model Canvas</kwd>
        <kwd>Gantt</kwd>
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      <title>1. Introduction</title>
      <sec id="sec-1-1">
        <title>1.1. The problem statement</title>
        <p>Students of Ukrainian higher education institutions have the opportunity to form their educational
trajectory, supplementing it with elective courses. An additional tool for self-development is
nonformal education, when students take specialized courses, such as those offered on online platforms
(https://ed-era.com/, https://prometheus.org.ua/). Higher education institutions have regulated the
possibility of including such courses in a student's academic record, and this benefits both students
and teachers, especially when it comes to learning and teaching in IT specialties. The dynamics of
the IT industry requires higher education institutions that teach IT students to actively respond to
the emergence of new technologies.</p>
        <p>
          Despite active collaboration with employers, the process of developing and integrating new
courses into the curriculum proves to be time-consuming. The solution to this situation could be
using the potential of non-formal education. The availability of such education provides an
opportunity to deepen knowledge or try oneself in a new field [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>
          ]. It is a requirement of the time to
ensure a convenient and self-regulated way of learning, especially when it comes to learning in the
time of pandemic or war.
        </p>
        <p>The use of non-formal education courses is convenient not only for the student, who gets access
to educational diversity and can regulate the pace of learning on his or her own. It is also
convenient for IT professors, who can engage students in the study of the most relevant areas of
the industry without being limited by the number of students. Teachers are incentivized to develop
modern, relevant, and in-demand educational content without waiting to implement the relevant
educational course in university curriculum. This is especially true for educators working in the
field of computer science and information technologies, where new technologies are evolving
extremely fast.</p>
        <p>To provide students with the knowledge and skills that meet the requirements of modern IT to
ensure students' competitiveness in the labor market, teachers are ready to develop educational
courses in their specialties, and such initiatives are strongly supported, including through funding
from various sources. The European and global community demonstrate their understanding of the
importance of education by actively funding educational projects. For example, the House of
Europe project (https://houseofeurope.org.ua/) supports cultural and educational programs. The
motto of the DAAD, the German Academic Exchange Service (https://www.daad.de/en/), is
“Change by Exchange”, and this initiative promotes students' and researchers' academic exchange,
providing scholarships, internationalization, and academic collaboration. Erasmus+, an EU program
for education, training, youth and sport, aims to support higher education. More specifically, the
Jean Monnet Actions, which runs under Erasmus+, stimulates teaching and research on the
European Union and encourages other countries to develop higher education practices.</p>
        <p>
          Applying for funding means not only having an innovative educational idea but also careful
planning of the process, sometimes the plan should extend to 36 months, as in the Jean Monnet
Module [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>
          ]. Unfortunately, a lot of such ideas were not and might not be realized because of the
academics` unfamiliarity with the process of project design and maintenance, as managing such
international projects is still not as wide practice as it could be. Yes, the offices on international
education exist at almost every higher education institution, as Ukraine actively collaborates in the
scientific field, but educational projects are still not so widely applied. Such offices might provide
useful information on the open calls for funding, on various possibilities of international
cooperation, can explain specific features of the project design process, and be eager to help with
the project design, but educators very often prefer keeping to themselves the idea of the
educational project, and count on their own resources. Also, it is obvious that the text of a
successful project will not be freely shared by its authors, as these texts present their authors’
thorough, balanced, and hard work. That is why the educators who are willing to apply for an
educational project cannot and should not count on learning from successful project applications.
As a result, educators might be left with no tools for the preparation and implementation of their
educational project. Developing a method for educational project design and management will
contribute to the development of education of Ukraine. Thorough implementation of such method
will increase chances of winning by submitting realistic, thought-through, and well-designed
projects.
        </p>
        <p>European Commission, being an executive body of the European Union, aims to support
educational and scientific development. Researchers can suggest their idea of a project of
interEuropean cooperation and apply for funding. Ukraine has a successful history of its higher
education institutions participating in international projects, and the EU Commission finds it
possible to support Ukrainian researchers even now, in times of war. Special attention is paid to
displaced researchers or other specialists from Ukraine, so they can find opportunities to become
involved in ongoing EU-funded research and innovation projects. Even more, on its website
(https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/ukraine), over thirty EU member states and associated countries are
offering housing, jobs, diploma recognition, and other services for Ukrainian displaced scientists.
Due to this support, numerous opportunities are open for Ukrainian researchers, and our country
continues to integrate into European space.</p>
        <p>To present the research on designing an educational project on teaching a range of educational
courses in the design and implementation of modern information technologies, it is crucial to
review the literature on Ukrainian higher education institutions (HEI) experience in international
scientific and educational cooperation. Furthermore, an educational project shares many
characteristics with a business process, and adopting a business modeling perspective could prove
useful in the design and management of an educational project.</p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-1-2">
        <title>1.2. Analysis of recent studies and publications</title>
        <p>
          While researching the state-of-the-art international projects, in which Ukraine was a participant,
eight papers were found in open access (August, 2023). These papers were analyzed using the Open
Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) tool. ORKG aims to present papers on a specific research
problem in a structured manner, for example, as in [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref>
          ]. In ORKG`s comparisons, manually
extracted from scientific papers, knowledge is presented as a grid. The author of such a comparison
proposes which key aspects of the scientific papers being analyzed are important from the
standpoint of the research issue (Fig. 1).
        </p>
        <p>
          While working on such ORKG comparison of the features of the international projects, in which
Ukraine was a participant, it was concluded that the aim of any project is its most innovative
characteristic, and comparison [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref4">4</xref>
          ] shows that such international projects have a diversity of aims,
as presented in Table 1. The project aim clearly demonstrates which projects were inspired by
unfortunate events of the war, when Ukrainians were dragged into traumatized experiences on
different levels, from a single person [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref5">5</xref>
          ] to an institution [6].
        </p>
        <p>While researching scientific papers specifically on educational international projects, we have
focused on seven open source papers [7], which showcased different characteristics of such types
of projects. Every project as a participant has mentioned higher education institutions, which were
joined by International student organizations, schools, European Foundations, etc. Also, the
projects were described with their activities (workshop, summer school, webinar, round table, etc.),
outcomes (articles, conferences, digital toolkit, website, learning platform, institutional
development strategies, etc.), short and long-term impact, participation countries, project duration,
and other properties. The diversity of education projects can be illustrated by the project aims (see
Table 2).</p>
        <p>It is worth mentioning that the number of international educational projects involving Ukraine
is much higher than the number of papers that were found in open sources. As an illustration, in
the year 2022, Lviv Polytechnic National University alone had 11 projects funded by Jean Monnet
Actions. The results of such projects have been presented at many Ukrainian scientific platforms,
for example, such annual conferences as the IEEE Computer Science and Information Technologies
CSIT conference with ICT in education section (https://csit.ieee.org.ua/), ICT in education,
research, and industrial application ICTERI (https://icteri.org/icteri-2023/), but not all of their
publications are open-sourced.</p>
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        <title>1.3. Relevance of the educational project</title>
        <p>To comply with funders` demands, the object of the project should, among other qualities, be of
high relevance and importance. In information technologies, one of the promising directions is
virtual and augmented reality technology. Its rapidly developing software and hardware recently
caused its price decrease, and, therefore, wider spread. Virtual (VR), augmented (AR), and mixed
reality (MR), altogether referred now to as XR technologies, more and more often become a part of
scientific and applied research, for example, for historic modeling in archaeology [8], art therapy in
psychology [9], cardiology in medicine [10], measuring in cyber-physical systems [11] and many
others. That is why designing a set of educational courses on XR technologies design and
application seems to be relevant nowadays.</p>
        <sec id="sec-1-3-1">
          <title>Project aim</title>
          <p>
            Year of
publication
2022
[6]
[
            <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref5">5</xref>
            ]
[12]
[13]
[14]
          </p>
        </sec>
        <sec id="sec-1-3-2">
          <title>Rethinking and reinventing displaced universities and transforming</title>
          <p>them into centers driving social, intellectual, economic, and cultural
development of local communities where they had been relocated
Implement an evidence-based trauma-focused treatment for 2023
traumatized children and their families during the war in Ukraine
Introduce Ukrainian teachers to terrestrial laser scanning 2016
technology for collection and processing of spatial data
Promote local development of the territorial communities using 2017
financial policy tools</p>
        </sec>
        <sec id="sec-1-3-3">
          <title>To improve and enhance doctoral training 2019 [15] [16]</title>
          <p>Keep links with scholars who left Ukraine and join the efforts of 2023
different migration waves of Ukrainian scientists for the further
rebuilding of Ukraine</p>
        </sec>
        <sec id="sec-1-3-4">
          <title>Modernization of curricula of pedagogical higher education</title>
          <p>institutions of Ukraine
2019
Provide theoretical and practical training for future doctors of 2023
philosophy (Ph.D.) regarding the implementation of university
autonomy in Ukraine, taking into account the experience of EU
countries</p>
        </sec>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-1-4">
        <title>1.4. The social component of the educational project</title>
        <p>
          Yet another relevant characteristic of any educational project should be its active social impact. As
presented in Designing an educational project with a social impact by Vasyl Andrunyk and Tetiana
Shestakevych [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref>
          ], it is possible to put a strong social impact in an educational project. Authors of
the [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref>
          ] suggested designing educational projects in that way, so while conducting educational
activities, students were taught to create a library of scenes of virtual and augmented reality. These
scenes were tailored to meet the educational needs of children with autism, and are open to any
participant in inclusive education.
        </p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-1-5">
        <title>1.5. The research goal</title>
        <p>Implementation of funded educational projects in higher education appears to be good practice for
all the participants (or beneficiaries) of the process. Students are the ones who benefit from it most,
as they receive an opportunity to gain knowledge they are interested in, which might differ from
the education direction they have chosen. Students can explore new subjects or deepen and
diversify their knowledge. HEI teachers can create up-to-date courses, enabling a wider range of
students to learn now, instead of waiting for the course to be integrated into the university
curriculum [18]. Additionally, by creating informal education courses, teachers can promote the
elective courses they teach, and students who are choosing between such courses will have an
understanding of what they can expect to learn. Such promotion of the courses benefits the HEI
too; future students receive additional information on the educational activities of the University
they consider applying to.</p>
        <p>Reference
[19]
[20]
[21]
[22]</p>
        <p>Project aim Year of
publication
Foster close cooperation and strengthen relationships between the 2010
Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia</p>
        <sec id="sec-1-5-1">
          <title>Enable high school students to make the right choice of university</title>
          <p>education, based on their abilities and preferences
2022
Provide a digitalized infrastructure, enabling integration of the 2023
search for accommodation with the European student mobility
initiatives
Develop and implement open access ICT-based tools and 2020
environments to encourage learners to use digital learning methods</p>
        </sec>
        <sec id="sec-1-5-2">
          <title>Rethink and reinvent displaced universities, and transform them into centers of social, intellectual, economic, and cultural development of local communities where they had been relocated</title>
        </sec>
        <sec id="sec-1-5-3">
          <title>Strengthen the institutional cooperation in the Higher Education area 2022 2023</title>
          <p>Promote technological and science culture in Math, Biology, 2009</p>
          <p>Physics, and Portuguese language</p>
          <p>
            When the idea of the educational project crystallizes, its authors prepare an application to
funding institutions. The application form naturally differs between institutions and may be
different within the same funding program from year to year. That is why it is advisable to use an
independent tool of project management while working on the project design. Such project
management tools should make it possible to implement different types of financing without
affecting the main part of the project. The goal of this research is to consider using project
management tools for educational project design and management. The objectives of the research
are to 1) provide a rationale for considering an educational project as a business process; 2) apply
business analysis techniques to educational project design; and 3) consider project management
technologies to be used for educational project management. In this paper, an educational project
with social impact [
            <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref>
            ] will be used as an illustrative example.
          </p>
          <p>The scientific novelty of this paper lies in the method developed for educational project design
and maintenance with project management tools, adaptable for various funding schemes. Also, for
the first time, a structural model of mapping of educational project design to the funding call was
introduced; such a model innovatively integrates project management tools implementation with
funding call structure.</p>
        </sec>
      </sec>
    </sec>
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      <title>2. The results and discussion</title>
      <sec id="sec-2-1">
        <title>2.1. Concept of the project</title>
        <p>
          The educational project, initially introduced in [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref>
          ], aimed to enhance students' proficiency in both
hard and soft skills related to contemporary XR technologies, including virtual and augmented
reality. Simultaneously, while realizing the project, it was planned to improve the IT support for
inclusive education specialists. To reach this aim, working group members planned to conduct
research on the state-of-the-art IT support for the education of children with special needs, and
develop a set of video lectures as a methodological basis of an educational course on XR
technologies. Additionally, a workshop on XR technologies was planned to be held. The workshop
was designed so that students could learn to create assets of virtual and augmented reality
technologies in compliance with the demands of educating children with autism. These XR assets
as scenes of augmented and virtual reality would be made freely accessible on an XR assets library
website. All the online activities were to be recorded and placed in the project`s information
resources. All significant events of the project were to be shared via a website and social media.
        </p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-2-2">
        <title>2.2. Educational project as a business process</title>
        <p>There are a lot of definitions of business processes, and in this paper, the next one is used: a
business process is a set of functions in a specific sequence that finally deliver value for an internal
or external customer, and an external event clearly defines the process's start [25]. Following such
definition, the educational project realization can be considered as a business process. An
educational project has its clear start, its customers (or beneficiaries) are students, teachers, and
higher education institutions. An educational project consists of a set of educational courses (or
one, at the very least), and the project delivered values are knowledge – for students, and a
freeaccess library of XR assets. The above-mentioned can be accepted as a rationale for considering an
educational project as a business process. As a consequence, for educational project design and
management, it is possible to use both business analysis and project management techniques and
approaches.</p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-2-3">
        <title>2.3. The method of educational project design and maintenance with project management tools</title>
        <p>Business process modeling has become an important and relevant domain of a formal description
of some aspects of the physical and social world [26], [27], [28]. Different techniques, frameworks,
and approaches to business process modeling have been developed. These tools provide a visual
representation of business processes, and are of various complexity. For example, Business Process
Modeling Notation (BPMN) has four core elements with various sub-elements, each with different
meaning. Fig. 2 gives an example of partial BPMN model of the microservice (the Customer
business responsibility) [29]. Learning the meaning of the elements might be challenging, and
seems unnecessary if project developers are not accustomed to the BPMN notation yet.</p>
        <p>
          In contrast to complexity of BPMN tool, the Business Model Canvas by Alexander Osterwalder
and Yves Pigneur [30] has a determined structure of nine blocks, each labeled to map the
meaningful edge of the business process. In this paper, the Business Model Canvas was chosen as a
framework of business process modeling because of the balance of simplicity and functionality,
taking into account that for the educators it might be the first business model introduced.
2.3.1. Business Model Canvas
Alexander Osterwalder`s Business Model Canvas allows one to describe, design, invent, and pivot a
business model. The approach was developed focusing on strategic management and is applied to
existing businesses, as well as to developing the new ones [31], both profit and non-profit 3[
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>
          ].
Furthermore, in [33], the authors adapted Business Model Canvas to be used in educational field,
namely, to offer a practical and quick tool to visualize, summarize, and present a research project.
        </p>
        <p>Being visualized, Osterwalder's Canvas has nine key blocks, as in Fig. 3, and they name the
business components that are to be considered and analyzed. It is advisable to consider these
components in such order:
1. Customer Segments.
2. Value Proposition.
3. Customer Relationships.
4. Channels.
5. Revenue Streams.
6. Key Activities.
7. Key Resources.
8. Key Partners.
2.3.2. Business Model Canvas for Jean Monnet Module
We will follow the footsteps of the Dutch scientists, who in [35] mapped the Business Model
Canvas with enterprise architecture modeling standard. To show how the Business Model Canvas
for educational projects correlates with the funding application, as an example of such funding, the
Jean Monnet Action 2024 call for the Jean Monnet Module will be used. Figure 3 presents how the
visualization of the Jean Monnet Module application structure corresponds to the Business Model
Canvas added by SWOT analysis (for the latter, see [6]). Some Jean Monnet application’s structure
elements are filled in gray to indicate they are not to be filled in for the Jean Monnet Module
application.</p>
        <p>In Table 3 a value of Project funding for the Revenue Streams block was given, and Project
expenses for the Cost Structure key block. These values are rather unspecific, as the Revenue
streams and Cost structure depend very much on the funding rules. For example, the Jean Monnet
Module funding is provided for the teaching hours only. In the Jean Monnet Module funding case,
an educational project`s revenue stream is one and only – the funding from the EU Commission,
and it is the teacher's fee.</p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-2-4">
        <title>2.4. Gantt chart in educational project design</title>
        <p>While designing an educational project timeline, all its events should be planned to fit the project
duration. Also, while preparing the timetable of the project, the load of the human resources
should be considered. A project management tool that can be used in this case is the Gantt Chart.</p>
        <p>The Gantt chart is a tool for visualization of project tasks completed over a period of time in
comparison to the scheduled work duration. The Gantt chart typically includes two sections: the
left side outlines a list of tasks and subtasks, and the right side has a timeline with schedule bars
that visualize tasks. As an example, this tool can be used for project timeline design, as it is
presented in Fig. 4. The chart was designed for the 4 quarters of the first year of the project (note
that activity 7.5.4 Prepare final report is not mentioned in a Gantt chart, as the total project
duration is 36 months). As tasks, the Key Activities (Table 3) of the educational project were used.
Fig. 5 is a screen of the onlinegantt.com, one of the many online tools for the Gantt chart.</p>
        <p>The idea illustrated in Fig. 4 can simplify the process of forming an educational project
application, as using Business Model Canvas gives a broader perspective. When paired with a
SWOT analysis matrix, a Business Model Canvas becomes a good tool for educational project
designing and planning.</p>
        <p>The Timetable (part 4.3 of the Jean Monnet Module application contents) can be designed
having in mind the values of the Key Partner and Key Activities block. However, there exists an
additional project management tool essential for designing and overseeing the project's timeline.</p>
        <p>The onlinegantt.com tool has several additional advantages, as it facilitates teamwork and
enables the assignment of tasks to project human resources. Furthermore, it can be switched into
Resource mode to assess the workload of project participants (Fig. 6). In a way, such a tool can be
used as a human resource planning tool, and it is recommended to implement such (or similar) tool
while creating a project working team to ensure that every member is informed of their tasks.</p>
        <sec id="sec-2-4-1">
          <title>Guiding question Values What type of 1.1. Students/specialists who want to master the use of customers do you modern XR technologies in their professional activities address?</title>
          <p>Which values (services) 2.1. An educational course on XR technologies with a
do you create and practical component focused on the needs of inclusive
offer? Which needs are education specialists
you fulfilling for the 2.2. Library of XR assets of virtual and augmented reality
beneficiaries?
How are your 3.1. Personal communication with students during their
relationships with your studies
customers or 3.2. Personal consultations on the use of the library of XR
beneficiaries? assets
Through which 4.1. The project website – to spread information about
channels do you reach the project and its upcoming events, video lectures, and
your customers and/or for communication
beneficiaries? 4.2. Social media – for communication and feedback
4.3. Workshops – while teaching students
4.4. The website – as a library of the XR assets.</p>
          <p>How much is your 5.1. Project funding
financial revenue?
Which key resources 6.1. Professional teachers with experience in teaching
are required to make relevant courses, with relevant scientific publications
your educational and/or certificates of completion of internships on
7. Key
Activities
8. Key
Partners</p>
        </sec>
        <sec id="sec-2-4-2">
          <title>9. Cost</title>
          <p>Structure
project work (physical, relevant topics
intellectual, human, 6.2. Premises with Internet connection and equipment
financial)? 6.3. Working group for project support and management
Which key activities 7.1. Create a working group
make the educational 7.2. Analyze modern concepts of using XR in the
project work? education of students with special educational needs
Including marketing 7.3. Prepare video lectures of the course in XR
and dissemination technology
activities 7.4. Hold the Workshops on virtual and augmented
reality
7.5. Information support
7.5.1. Monitor project activities
7.5.2. Social networks support
7.5.3. Advertise workshop
7.5.4. Prepare final report
7.6. Manage XR assets library
7.6.1. Create the website of XR assets
7.6.2. Fill in the website with XR assets
7.6.3. Support the work of the site with XR assets
Who are your key 8.1. IT companies working with XR
partners?</p>
        </sec>
        <sec id="sec-2-4-3">
          <title>What are your main 9.1. Project expenses</title>
          <p>cost items?</p>
          <p>
            As mentioned before, there are a lot of tools, both online and offline, which can be used to
develop Business Model Canvas collaboratively. The Miro has some pros for using it for the project
design, as it allows online simultaneous teamwork, and provides dozens of templates that can be
used in project management. Such software will be accessed by all the participants of the working
group so that all are updated on project scheduling, overall workflow, document storage and
sharing, time tracking, and quality management. In [
            <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref>
            ], the authors presented another project
design approach. SWOT analysis was a step in strategic planning of the project, used to describe
the strong and weak sides of the project, its threats, and opportunities. The SWOT analysis matrix
was designed in Miro [36].
          </p>
        </sec>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-2-5">
        <title>2.5. Educational project lifecycle planning</title>
        <p>Yet another project management concept can be applied while planning the educational project
lifecycle. As previously mentioned, information technology is a rapidly evolving and expanding
field, and within a project, it is essential to regularly update all IT-related activities. In this
particular educational project, such activities include:</p>
        <p> the analysis of the state-of-the-art XR technologies for the education of students with
special needs,
 the preparation of the video lectures on XR technology, and
 the preparation of the workshop on an updated subject, to replenish the library of XR
assets with the results of the workshop. As a result, the website hosting the assets library will be
periodically updated with new XR assets after each workshop.</p>
        <p>The project management concept we use here is an agile methodology (Fig. 7), as the project
activities are iterative. Each cycle takes two semesters (12 months) aligning with the academic year
in Ukraine.</p>
      </sec>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-3">
      <title>3. Conclusions and prospects for further research</title>
      <p>Applying for educational project funding can be quite a challenge for university staff, as it requires
project development and management skills. Ukraine is widening its experience in applying for
educational projects funding, and in managing such projects. Application of project management
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