Immersive virtual reality as a tool to learn problem-solving skills

Araiza-Alba, Paola; Keane, Therese; Chen, Won Sun; Kaufman, Jordy

doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2020.104121

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“…The use of VR technology in the training program offers a novel opportunity for the development of problem-solving skills by providing learners with richer situations; this made the learning process more interesting and interactive and could improve the learners’ motivation and attention, thus helping them explore new possibilities. A recent study supported the use of VR technology stating that it could increase users’ interest and motivation, and potentially assist students in developing problem-solving skills [ 35 ]. Apart from the SVVR training program, our study conducted group and panel discussions.…”

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Examining the Effectiveness of 3D Virtual Reality Training on Problem-solving, Self-efficacy, and Teamwork Among Inexperienced Volunteers Helping With Drug Use Prevention: Randomized Controlled Trial

Chiang¹,

Huang²,

Sheu³

et al. 2021

J Med Internet Res

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Background Illegal drug usage among adolescents is a critical health problem. The Taiwanese government provides an accompanying volunteer program to prevent students who experiment with drugs from reusing them. An appropriate training program can improve volunteers’ abilities to assist students using drugs. Problem-solving, self-efficacy, and teamwork are critical abilities for inexperienced volunteers who help with drug use prevention. By interacting with the animation or 3D virtual reality (VR) in the virtual scene, learners can immerse themselves in the virtual environment to learn, and 3D VR can increase learning opportunities and reduce the cost of human and material resources. Objective The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of spherical video-based virtual reality (SVVR) training in improving problem-solving, self-efficacy, and teamwork among volunteers who helped prevent adolescents from using illegal drugs. Methods This study used a randomized controlled design with a total of 68 participants in the experimental (n=35) and control (n=33) groups. The participants in the experimental group received the SVVR training program and their counterparts in the control group did not receive any training. Results Generalized estimating equation analyses indicated that the experimental group showed significant posttraining improvements in problem-solving and self-efficacy but not teamwork when compared with the control group. Conclusions The results of this study revealed that SVVR could improve participants’ problem-solving skills and self-efficacy for assisting students in not using illegal drugs. However, future studies are suggested to develop effective SVVR to assist inexperienced volunteers in enhancing their teamwork abilities. We believed that introducing the training program to more sites can enhance volunteer training so that volunteers can have a better companionship effect when helping students quit drugs. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05072431; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05072431

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Examining the Effectiveness of 3D Virtual Reality Training on Problem-solving, Self-efficacy, and Teamwork Among Inexperienced Volunteers Helping With Drug Use Prevention: Randomized Controlled Trial

Chiang¹,

Huang²,

Sheu³

et al. 2021

J Med Internet Res

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“…Learners’ skills eventually improve and remain high through repeated use because they know what strategies to adopt [ 9 ]. VR can also improve users’ problem-solving skills and enhance their reflection on practice [ 10 ]. Indeed, VR users reported higher levels of confidence in triage and perceived themselves as effective responders [ 1 ].…”

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Factors affecting nursing students’ intention to use a 3D game to learn field triage skills: a structural equation modelling analysis

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Background As mass casualty incidents are low-probability events, students often do not have the chance to practise field triage skills during their clinical placement. This study used a 3D game to engage participants in experiential learning in a realistic virtual environment. The purpose of the study was to explore factors affecting nursing students’ intention to use a 3D game to learn field triage skills. Methods This was a cross-sectional survey study. The technology acceptance model augmented by computer self-efficacy was used as a research model and a questionnaire was used to evaluate students’ intention to use the 3D game to learn field triage. Data was collected from nursing students of a degree-awarding higher education institution in Hong Kong. Results A total of 177 valid questionnaires were returned, and structural equation modeling was used to test the research model and hypotheses. Consistent with the technology acceptance model, perceived usefulness (0.21, p < 0.05) and perceived ease of use (0.91, p < 0.001) had a positive effect on the behavioral intention to use the 3D game. Computer self-efficacy positively influenced both perceived usefulness (0.66, p < 0.001) and perceived ease of use (0.73, p < 0.001). The research model explained 42 percent of the variance in the behavioral intention to use the 3D game. Conclusion Students believed that using the 3D game would enhance their field triage skills and found the game easy to use. Using 3D games to facilitate learning is a worthwhile educational approach for preparing healthcare professionals to handle low-probability clinical tasks, such as field triage in mass casualty incidents. Insights provided by findings of this study included the best way to design and promote interactive education programmes in a virtual environment.

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“…But with the use of virtual reality, it is possible for students to perform heart surgery, to control various techniques, for example, by train, to go on a space journey and even enter the Earth's orbit [5]. You can immerse the student in all this without the slightest threat to his life [6].…”

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Virtual reality as a main basis for forming modern educational technologies

Timokhin

Khoronko

2021

E3S Web Conf.

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In the work from the position of modern pedagogical science, a number of difficulties (risks) associated with the use of virtual reality for educational purposes are considered. The practical significance of the results lies in solving the problem under study, which formulates general provisions on the specifics of VR as a method and means of education, notes the growth of digital educational technologies and the wide potential for their application in the future. Virtual reality in education is used as the information space, in which the student can not only obtain the necessary information, but also enter into the contact with the fictitious objects. Sinking (immersion) into the educational medium helps students to acquire the habits of interaction with the virtual objects, to develop methods of collective collaboration and to find confidence in the course presentation of its own projects. The process of creating the resources with the elements of interactivity, and also the selection of the necessary instrument means is a technological and a systematic problem for the teachers, who are mastering new information technologies. The purpose of the article is construction and substantiation of the effectiveness of the model of the use of technologies of virtual reality in the course of the instruction of schoolchildren in the system of additional formation.

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Immersive virtual reality as a tool to learn problem-solving skills

Cited by 132 publications

References 50 publications

Examining the Effectiveness of 3D Virtual Reality Training on Problem-solving, Self-efficacy, and Teamwork Among Inexperienced Volunteers Helping With Drug Use Prevention: Randomized Controlled Trial

Examining the Effectiveness of 3D Virtual Reality Training on Problem-solving, Self-efficacy, and Teamwork Among Inexperienced Volunteers Helping With Drug Use Prevention: Randomized Controlled Trial

Factors affecting nursing students’ intention to use a 3D game to learn field triage skills: a structural equation modelling analysis

Virtual reality as a main basis for forming modern educational technologies

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