Ready Teacher One: Virtual and Augmented Reality Online Professional Development for K-12 School Teachers

Mystakidis, Stylianos; Fragkaki, Maria; Filippousis, Giorgos

doi:10.3390/computers10100134

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“…A modern literary reincarnation of the Metaverse is the OASIS, illustrated in the 2011 science fiction novel Ready Player One authored by Ernest Cline [56]. OASIS is a massively multiuser online VR game that evolved into the predominant online destination for work, education and entertainment.…”

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The Metaverse is the post-reality universe, a perpetual and persistent multiuser environment merging physical reality with digital virtuality. It is based on the convergence of technologies that enable multisensory interactions with virtual environments, digital objects and people such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). Hence, the Metaverse is an interconnected web of social, networked immersive environments in persistent multiuser platforms. It enables seamless embodied user communication in real-time and dynamic interactions with digital artifacts. Its first iteration was a web of virtual worlds where avatars were able to teleport among them. The contemporary iteration of the Metaverse features social, immersive VR platforms compatible with massive multiplayer online video games, open game worlds and AR collaborative spaces.

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“…Therefore, educators' positive attitude is a critical success factor for any technology-enhanced learning innovation. Teachers' perceptions depend on the flexibility of the proposed medium, as well as on its usability, ease of use, and perceived cognitive benefits through teachers' access to experiential professional development actions [7][8][9]. In this context, the study's main aim is the exploration of K-12 educators' views on the use of an educational, virtual reality-based, escape room (VRER) as an educational resource for blended learning in the post-pandemic era.…”

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Teacher Perceptions on Virtual Reality Escape Rooms for STEM Education

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Christopoulos

2022

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Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is a meta-discipline employing active, problem-centric approaches such as game-based learning. STEM competencies are an essential part of the educational response to the transformations caused by the fourth industrial revolution, spearheaded by the convergence of multiple exponential technologies. Teachers’ attitude is a critical success factor for any technology-enhanced learning innovation. This study explored in-service teachers’ views on the use of a digital educational escape room in virtual reality. Forty-one (n = 41) K-12 educators participated in a mixed research study involving a validated survey questionnaire instrument and an online debriefing session in the context of a teacher training program. The key findings revealed that such alternative instructional solutions can potentially enhance the cognitive benefits and learning outcomes, but further highlighted the shortcomings that instructional designers should consider while integrating them in contexts different than the intended. In line with this effort, more systematic professional development actions are recommended to encourage the development of additional teacher-led interventions.

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“…In this novel, people try to escape the pain of the real world by exploring a digital world through several digital avatars (Stephenson, 1992). Since then, it has been defined and considered differently, including collective space in virtuality (Lee et al, 2021), mirror world (Lee et al, 2021), embodied internet/spatial Internet (Chayka, 2021), a new type of Internet application and social form that integrates a variety of new technologies (Ning et al, 2021), post-reality universe, a perpetual and persistent multiuser environment merging physical reality with digital virtuality (Mystakidis et al, 2021), an omniverse: a venue of simulation and collaboration (Lee et al, 2021), and lifelogging (Bruun, & Stentoft, 2019).…”

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Is Metaverse in education a blessing or a curse: a combined content and bibliometric analysis

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The Metaverse has been the centre of attraction for educationists for quite some time. This field got renewed interest with the announcement of social media giant Facebook as it rebranding and positioning it as Meta. While several studies conducted literature reviews to summarize the findings related to the Metaverse in general, no study to the best of our knowledge focused on systematically summarizing the finding related to the Metaverse in education. To cover this gap, this study conducts a systematic literature review of the Metaverse in education. It then applies both content and bibliometric analysis to reveal the research trends, focus, and limitations of this research topic. The obtained findings reveal the research gap in lifelogging applications in educational Metaverse. The findings also show that the design of Metaverse in education has evolved over generations, where generation Z is more targeted with artificial intelligence technologies compared to generation X or Y. In terms of learning scenarios, there have been very few studies focusing on mobile learning, hybrid learning, and micro learning. Additionally, no study focused on using the Metaverse in education for students with disabilities. The findings of this study provide a roadmap of future research directions to be taken into consideration and investigated to enhance the adoption of the Metaverse in education worldwide, as well as to enhance the learning and teaching experiences in the Metaverse.

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Ready Teacher One: Virtual and Augmented Reality Online Professional Development for K-12 School Teachers

Cited by 55 publications

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Teacher Perceptions on Virtual Reality Escape Rooms for STEM Education

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