Eliciting Co-Creation Best Practices of Virtual Reality Reusable e-Resources

Abstract

Immersive experiential technologies find fertile grounds to grow and support healthcare education. Virtual, Augmented, or Mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) have proven to be impactful in both the educational and the affective state of the healthcare student’s increasing engagement. However, there is a lack of guidance for healthcare stakeholders on developing and integrating virtual reality resources into healthcare training. Thus, the authors applied Bardach’s Eightfold Policy Analysis Framework to critically evaluate existing protocols to determine if they are inconsistent, ineffective, or result in uncertain outcomes, following systematic pathways from concepts to decision-making. Co-creative VR resource development resulted as the preferred method. Best practices for co-creating VR Reusable e-Resources identified co-creation as an effective pathway to the prolific use of immersive media in healthcare education. Co-creation should be considered in conjunction with a training framework to enhance educational quality. Iterative cycles engaging all stakeholders enhance educational quality, while co-creation is central to the quality assurance process both for technical and topical fidelity, and tailoring resources to learners’ needs. Co-creation itself is seen as a bespoke learning modality. This paper provides the first body of evidence for co-creative VR resource development as a valid and strengthening method for healthcare immersive content development. Despite prior research supporting co-creation in immersive resource development, there were no established guidelines for best practices.

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“…Experiences, as they emerge from systematic pursuit of such endeavors demonstrate that there are tools that can streamline the technical implementation, providing semantic annotation, discoverability and accessibility of basic assets for content creation ( 41 ). Additionally, rigorous processes for proving the efficacy of co-creative content creation have been documented, allowing for the administrative and curricular acceptance of XR resources developed more easily ( 42 ).…”

Enhancing Nursing Simulation Education: A Case for Extended Reality Innovation

“…An innovative policy-based co-creation model for the design of immersive healthrelated content has additionally been presented by Antoniou et al [55]. The authors suggest an 8-step problem-solving framework when considering the application of XR technologies, as follows: (1) Defining the problem-XR technologies can be used to simulate many areas of healthcare.…”

“…( 7) Decision-making-based on the previous steps, a final decision is made on the best strategy to address the problem. (8) Sharing the results of the process-this is the final stage, where the well-considered project process is shared in order to communicate the rationale behind the chosen problem, design, technology, outcomes, and evaluation methods [55].…”

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“…The VR platforms create immersive environments where students can interact with virtual patients and perform clinical tasks. Some platforms, such as Osso VR and Oxford Medical Simulation, offer VR-based medical simulations (13).…”