Effects of Virtual World Environments in Student Satisfaction

Saleeb, Noha; Dafoulas, Georgios A.

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“…Despite its relevance in autonomous learning and the skills of future engineers and designers, the enhancement of these qualities by virtual learning environments is not sufficiently contrasted. In fact, most of the work focuses on assessing the quality of immersion and interaction with the environment, as well as the comfort of use [23]. Aspects such as fostering imagination and creativity are often overshadowed, especially as they are particularly difficult to measure objectively [24].…”

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Virtual Reality Learning Activities for Multimedia Students to Enhance Spatial Ability

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Virtual Reality is an incipient technology that is proving very useful for training different skills. Our hypothesis is that it is possible to design virtual reality learning activities that can help students to develop their spatial ability. To prove the hypothesis, we have conducted an experiment consisting of training the students using an on-purpose learning activity based on a virtual reality application and assessing the possible improvement of the students' spatial ability through a widely accepted spatial visualization test. The learning activity consists of a virtual environment where some simple polyhedral shapes are shown and manipulated by moving, rotating and scaling them. The students participating in the experiment are divided into a control and an experimental group, carrying out the same learning activity with the only difference of the device used for the interaction: a traditional computer with screen, keyboard and mouse for the control group, and virtual reality goggles with a smartphone for the experimental group. To assess the experience, all the students have completed a spatial visualization test twice: just before performing the activities and four weeks later, once all the activities were performed. Specifically, we have used the well-known and widely used Purdue Spatial Visualization Test-Rotation (PSVT-R), designed to test rotational visualization ability. The results of the test show that there is an improvement in the test results for both groups, but the improvement is significantly higher in the case of the experimental group. The conclusion is that the virtual reality learning activities have shown to improve the spatial ability of the experimental group.

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Virtual Reality Learning Activities for Multimedia Students to Enhance Spatial Ability

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“…Virtual reality technology, as can be seen in Fig. 7, is applied more for training environments such as maintenance of aircraft, information technology equipment and manufacturing products, which can be seen as useful and with potential, due to the possibility to design learning applications with visualization to learn complex technical maintenance processes [17]. No research in Further Education (FE) was found where any of the technologies were applied.…”

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Collaborative Educational Environments Incorporating Mixed Reality Technologies: A Systematic Mapping Study

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2019

IEEE Trans. Learning Technol.

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“…Despite its relevance in autonomous learning and in the capacities of future engineers and designers, the enhancement of this quality by virtual learning environments is not sufficiently contrasted. In fact, the majority of works focus on assessing the quality of immersion and interaction with the environment, as well as the convenience of its use [18]. Aspects such as the promotion of imagination and creativity remain most of the time in the background, especially since they are difficult to be measured objectively [19].…”

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A Low-Cost Immersive Virtual Reality System for Teaching Robotic Manipulators Programming

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Laboratory tasks are a powerful pedagogical strategy for developing competences in science and engineering degrees, making students understand in a practical way the theoretical topics explained in the classroom. However, performing experiments in real conditions is usually expensive in terms of time, money and energy, as it requires expensive infrastructures that are generally difficult to maintain in good conditions. To overcome this problem, virtual reality has proven to be a powerful tool to achieve sustainability, making it easy to update laboratories without the need to acquire new equipment. Moreover, the ability to introduce practical knowledge into classrooms without leaving them, makes virtual laboratories capable of simulating typical operating environments as well as extreme situations in the operation of different devices. A typical subject in which students can benefit from the use of virtual laboratories is robotics. In this work we will develop an immersive virtual reality (VR) pedagogical simulator of industrial robotic arms for engineering students. With the proposed system, students will know the effects of their own designed trajectories on several different robotic arms and cell environments without having to buy all of them and being safe of damaging the cell components. The simulation will be checking for collisions of the elements in the scene and alert the student when they happen. This can be achieved with a robotic simulator, but the integration with immersive VR is intended to help students better understand robotics. Moreover, even having a real robotic arm available for students, with this proposed VR method, all the students have the opportunity to manage and learn his own version of the robotic cell, without waiting times generated by having less robotic arms than students in classroom.

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Effects of Virtual World Environments in Student Satisfaction

Abstract: Universities and educational institutions worldwide are currently becoming more dependent on delivering assorted courses within online virtual worlds as 3D Virtual Learning Environments (3D VLES

Cited by 12 publications

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Virtual Reality Learning Activities for Multimedia Students to Enhance Spatial Ability

Virtual Reality Learning Activities for Multimedia Students to Enhance Spatial Ability

Collaborative Educational Environments Incorporating Mixed Reality Technologies: A Systematic Mapping Study

A Low-Cost Immersive Virtual Reality System for Teaching Robotic Manipulators Programming

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