Exploring Pedagogical Foundations of Existing Virtual Reality Educational Applications: A Content Analysis Study

Johnston, Elizabeth; Olivas, Gerald W.; Steele, Patricia; Smith, Cassandra; Bailey, Liston

doi:10.1177/0047239517745560

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“…Authors generally agree that VR first emerged in the 1960s, became commercially viable in the late 1980s, and experienced a surge of interest through the 1990s (Cipresso, Giglioli, Raya, & Riva, 2018;Merchant, Goetz, Cifuentes, Keeney-Kennicutt, & Davis, 2014). Recently, technological advances related to cost and immersive capabilities have positioned it as an affordable and attractive teaching and learning tool for educators (Johnston, Olivas, Steele, Smith, & Bailey, 2018;Kardong-Edgren et al, 2019;Kavanagh, Luxton-Reilly, Wuensche, & Plimmer, 2017;Radianti, Majchrzak, Fromm, & Wohlgenannt, 2020). While affordability is relative to equipment, authors predict advances will make VR increasingly affordable in the coming years, thus resulting in its adoption and prompting calls for research into VR as an educational tool (Foronda et al, 2020;Radianti et al, 2020).…”

Section: Virtual Reality As a Teaching Tool In Post-secondary Educationmentioning

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Nursing students’ engagement and experiences with virtual reality in an undergraduate bioscience course

Thompson

McConnell

2020

International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship

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ObjectivesThe challenges of bioscience courses such as anatomy and physiology in nursing education are well documented. Virtual reality has recently become accessible and may support student engagement. The purpose of this project was to describe students’ engagement and experiences with virtual reality in a first-year nursing course on anatomy, physiology, and health assessment.MethodsWe used a cross-sectional design and collected both quantitative and qualitative data. The Exploratory Learning Model guided our work.ResultsStudents perceived their engagement to be higher in virtual reality compared to other teaching methods. Their experiences were positive with students reporting that they found it easy to use, it helped their learning, and they recommended more of it.ConclusionsVirtual reality is an accessible tool for supporting student engagement. The Exploratory Learning Model is a useful conceptualization for integrating virtual reality into a course. Future research on the relationship between virtual reality and learning achievements is warranted.

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Section: Virtual Reality As a Teaching Tool In Post-secondary Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nursing students’ engagement and experiences with virtual reality in an undergraduate bioscience course

Thompson

McConnell

2020

International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship

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“…Technology development systems that utilize computer animation can support children's learning progress (Johnston, et al, 2017). Various computer animations are made applicatively with the aim of attracting children's attention.…”

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Virtual Fairy Tale Based on Wulangreh as a Learning Media in Javanese Lesson

Agustin¹,

Sunardi²,

Rochsantiningsih³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the the 3rd Annual Conference of Engineering and Implementation on Vocational Education, ACE

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This study aims to investigate the available virtual fairy tale based on wulangreh in primary school as one of the learning media in primary school. Data collection techniques in this study are observation and interviews in 30 primary school libraries, both public school and private school. The results showed that 30 school libraries already have fiction books, non-fiction books, teaching aids, and video teaching materials for subjects of mathematics, science, social studies, Indonesian and cultural art, while the virtual fairy tales based on wulangreh have not been found. Thus, it can conclude that the virtual tales based on wulangreh are not found. The recommendation of further research is to provide the fairy tale based on wulangreh as a learning media

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“…Many VR systems are driven by educational goals, and since the 1990s, the idea that first-person experience and nonsymbolic interactions with immersive systems can support the acquisition of knowledge has gained considerable traction (Winn 1993). This experiential and constructivist pedagogical approach to learning drives most educational VR applications (Johnston et al 2018) (see ▶ Possible in Education and ▶ Creative Learning and the Possible). Indeed, VR enables the transformation of abstract ideas into perceptible representations using virtual objects ("reification") in, say, numerical simulations (Gupta et al 2019).…”

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Brighton¹,

Powell²

2020

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible

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A simulation is an orchestrated series of operations used to model the behavior of a system. The system being simulated could exist, such as the world economy, have existed, such as a transition in evolutionary history, or be hypothetical, such as the synthetic world of a computer game. A simulation will typically model how a system develops over time, and potentially at a fidelity that is hard or impossible to achieve using other kinds of model. Most simulations are specified formally, either mathematically or algorithmically, and executed on digital computers. As a tool for modelling and understanding the natural world, simulation is used throughout the sciences to model systems ranging from the global climate, financial markets, immune systems, power plants, and the origins of language. Simulation is possible and is the primary method of inquiry for fields, such as artificial intelligence and complexity science. More broadly, simulation is used to engineer virtual environments for training and entertainment, create artifacts, and explore design spaces. High fidelity simulations that operate in real time can blur the distinction between virtual and natural worlds. In each of these applications, simulation provides a way to create, analyze, manipulate, and crucially automate models with the possibility of an arguably unparalleled flexibility and scope.

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Exploring Pedagogical Foundations of Existing Virtual Reality Educational Applications: A Content Analysis Study

Cited by 77 publications

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Nursing students’ engagement and experiences with virtual reality in an undergraduate bioscience course

Nursing students’ engagement and experiences with virtual reality in an undergraduate bioscience course

Virtual Fairy Tale Based on Wulangreh as a Learning Media in Javanese Lesson

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