A review of the uses of virtual reality in engineering education

Lanzo, Jaiden A. di; Valentine, Andrew; Sohel, Ferdous; Yapp, Angie Y. T.; Muparadzi, Kudakwashe C.; Abdelmalek, Merkorios

doi:10.1002/cae.22243

Cited by 88 publications

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“…According to the skill-learning test results, the effect of VR application on skill learning was significantly greater than that of conventional lecturing and demonstration teaching, and the effect size was large. This result is consistent with those of other studies (di Lanzo et al, 2020;Halabi, 2020;Huang et al, 2020;van Ginkela et al, 2019).…”

Section: The Effect Of Vr Application On Skill-learning Test Resultssupporting

confidence: 94%

Effects of virtual reality application on skill learning for optical‐fibre fusion splicing

Chang

2021

Brit J Educational Tech

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Virtual reality (VR) is a way of digitally simulating or replicating an environment (Meyer et al., 2019). The four fundamental elements of VR are three-dimensional multimedia, immersion, sense of presence and interactions between the virtual and real environments (Makransky et al., 2019;Radianti et al., 2020). From its application in entertainment in the 1960s to flight training purposes in the 1980s (Makransky et al., 2019;van Ginkela et al., 2019), VR has demonstrated favourable teaching effects and widespread applications

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Section: The Effect Of Vr Application On Skill-learning Test Resultssupporting

confidence: 94%

Effects of virtual reality application on skill learning for optical‐fibre fusion splicing

Chang

2021

Brit J Educational Tech

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“…It seems that health care professionals do not have enough opportunities for in-hospital disaster preparedness training [ 7 , 8 ]. The investigators also agreed on recent advances of VRS for its use in education and training in a variety of application industry domains [ 10 - 13 ]. The research problems mentioned in the Introduction section were then derived based on their agreement.…”

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“…Emerging evidence suggests that virtual reality simulation (VRS) is a viable alternative for workforce training in a variety of industry disciplines, with positive effects of increasing confidence and gaining necessary knowledge [ 10 - 13 ]. VR is a cutting-edge technology that can generate virtual environments of different training scenarios and combine with multisource data, stereoscopic vision, and intuitive interaction interfaces [ 14 ].…”

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Virtual Reality Simulation for Disaster Preparedness Training in Hospitals: Integrated Review

Jung¹

2022

J Med Internet Res

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Background A critical component of disaster preparedness in hospitals is experiential education and training of health care professionals. A live drill is a well-established, effective training approach, but cost restraints and logistic constraints make clinical implementation challenging, and training opportunities with live drills may be severely limited. Virtual reality simulation (VRS) technology may offer a viable training alternative with its inherent features of reproducibility, just-in-time training, and repeatability. Objective This integrated review examines the scientific evidence pertaining to the effectiveness of VRS and its practical usefulness in training health care professionals for in-hospital disaster preparedness. Methods A well-known 4-stage methodology was used for the integrated review process. It consisted of problem identification, a literature search and inclusion criteria determination, 2-stage validation and analysis of searched studies, and presentation of findings. A search of diverse publication repositories was performed. They included Web of Science (WOS), PubMed (PMD), and Embase (EMB). Results The integrated review process resulted in 12 studies being included. Principle findings identified 3 major capabilities of VRS: (1) to realistically simulate the clinical environment and medical practices related to different disaster scenarios, (2) to develop learning effects on increased confidence and enhanced knowledge acquisition, and (3) to enable cost-effective implementation of training programs. Conclusions The findings from the integrated review suggested that VRS could be a competitive, cost-effective adjunct to existing training approaches. Although the findings demonstrated the applicability of VRS to different training scenarios, these do not entirely cover all disaster scenarios that could happen in hospitals. This integrated review expects that the recent advances of VR technologies can be 1 of the catalysts to enable the wider adoption of VRS training on challenging clinical scenarios that require sophisticated modeling and environment depiction.

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“…Radianti presented a review of existing research dedicated to the application of immersive VR in higher education in many disciplines, where engineering was the most popular one identified with 24% [10]. A similar situation was presented by [11,12]. However, content creation tends to be expensive due to the costs of the head and specialized computer equipment.…”

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On the Use of Augmented Reality to Reinforce the Learning of Power Electronics for Beginners

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This study aims to develop and evaluate an Augmented Reality (AR) application to teach power electronics to beginners. For this purpose, two topics were presented: The first was the design of a series-connected Resistance–Inductor–Capacitor (RLC) circuit in AR, the space-state equations of which were analyzed in an interactive way, and its assembly in a virtual protoboard to analyze the voltage and currents as measured by an oscilloscope. The second presented topic in AR was about Bidirectional Direct Current (DC)–DC converters, known as Buck–Boost; the aim was to study their behavior when energy is exchanged between two systems, usually photovoltaic panels, electric vehicles, and storage systems. The attitudes of the students towards the AR application was significantly better than those towards traditional teaching. The measurements of the developed skills indicated better cognitive performance when using AR technology. The designed AR tool was used in an industry course to explore the students’ opinions, who provided valuable feedback.

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A review of the uses of virtual reality in engineering education

Cited by 88 publications

References 44 publications

Effects of virtual reality application on skill learning for optical‐fibre fusion splicing

Effects of virtual reality application on skill learning for optical‐fibre fusion splicing

Virtual Reality Simulation for Disaster Preparedness Training in Hospitals: Integrated Review

On the Use of Augmented Reality to Reinforce the Learning of Power Electronics for Beginners

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