Virtual Learning Environments to Enhance Spatial Orientation

Carrera, Carlos Carbonell; Saorín, José Luis

doi:10.12973/ejmste/79171

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“…Ainsworth [26] highlights this by considering the differences between the representation technology and taking advantage of the differences between the visualization methods. Dalgarno and Lee [27] and Carbonell-Carrera and Saorin [28] explore this through the learning affordances of 3D virtual environments. In particular, Carbonell-Carrera and Saorin [28] highlight the immersive orientation of VR and AR, highlighting heightened skills development in spatial thinking and navigation with no negative effects across gender.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Dalgarno and Lee [27] and Carbonell-Carrera and Saorin [28] explore this through the learning affordances of 3D virtual environments. In particular, Carbonell-Carrera and Saorin [28] highlight the immersive orientation of VR and AR, highlighting heightened skills development in spatial thinking and navigation with no negative effects across gender. Previous research investigating VR and AR ( Figure 1A [21]) use within a health science and medical curricula found these modes to be as effective for student learning as the commonly used tablet-based applications.…”

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Mobile Mixed Reality for Experiential Learning and Simulation in Medical and Health Sciences Education

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New accessible learning methods delivered through mobile mixed reality are becoming possible in education, shifting pedagogy from the use of two dimensional images and videos to facilitating learning via interactive mobile environments. This is especially important in medical and health education, where the required knowledge acquisition is typically much more experiential, self-directed, and hands-on than in many other disciplines. Presented are insights obtained from the implementation and testing of two mobile mixed reality interventions across two Australian higher education classrooms in medicine and health sciences, concentrating on student perceptions of mobile mixed reality for learning physiology and anatomy in a face-to-face medical and health science classroom and skills acquisition in airways management focusing on direct laryngoscopy with foreign body removal in a distance paramedic science classroom. This is unique because most studies focus on a single discipline, focusing on either skills or the learner experience and a single delivery modality rather than linking cross-discipline knowledge acquisition and the development of a student's tangible skills across multimodal classrooms. Outcomes are presented from post-intervention student interviews and discipline academic observation, which highlight improvements in learner motivation and skills, but also demonstrated pedagogical challenges to overcome with mobile mixed reality learning.

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Mobile Mixed Reality for Experiential Learning and Simulation in Medical and Health Sciences Education

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“…In these previous studies, participants worked with terrain using SDI and AR. In a recent research by Carbonell and Saorin [36], participants utilized a first-person urban environment using Street View, in which students relied on landmarks (e.g., characteristics of buildings, streets, etc.) to develop a sense of orientation within the environment.…”

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Think Spatially With Game Engine

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Saorín

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Spatial thinking and spatial orientation skills are involved in tasks related to the recognition of landforms, mapping, spatial interpretation, and landscape analysis, and can be developed with specific training. Game engines can facilitate the creation of 3D virtual landforms and provide powerful rendering engines for the graphical representation of landscapes from a first-person perspective. In the present research, 27 engineering students participated in a workshop in a first-person virtual environment using landforms created with a game engine. The Spatial Thinking Ability Test and the Perspective Taking-Spatial Orientation Test measured improvement in spatial thinking and spatial orientation as a result of this workshop. The gain in spatial thinking (8.31%) is within the range observed in previous research in the field of geography using a web-based GIS strategy (7.31%–10.00%). The gain in Spatial Orientation skill (15.76%) is comparable with previous research using both first-person strategies based in urban virtual environments (14.23%), and Spatial Data Infrastructures (gains between 21.17% and 21.34%). Participants with better self-reported sense of direction had better performance on the spatial orientation test.

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“…Carbonell-Carrera et al [2] also insisted on the importance of maps as a complement to VLE for spatial orientation.…”

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Indy: a virtual reality multi-player game for navigation skills training

Mas

Filliard

2018

2018 IEEE Fourth VR International Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Environments (3DCVE)

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Working in complex industrial facilities requires spatial navigation skills that people build up with time and field experience. Training sessions consisting in guided tours help discover places but they are insufficient to become intimately familiar with their layout. They imply passive learning postures, are time-limited and can be experienced only once because of organization constraints and potential interferences with ongoing activities in the buildings. To overcome these limitations and improve the acquisition of navigation skills, we developed Indy, a virtual reality system consisting in a collaborative game of treasure hunting. It has several key advantages: it focuses learners' attention on navigation tasks, implies their active engagement and provides them with feedbacks on their achievements. Virtual reality makes it possible to multiply the number and duration of situations that learners can experience to better consolidate their skills. This paper discusses the main design principles and a typical usage scenario of Indy.

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Virtual Learning Environments to Enhance Spatial Orientation

Cited by 30 publications

References 41 publications

Mobile Mixed Reality for Experiential Learning and Simulation in Medical and Health Sciences Education

Mobile Mixed Reality for Experiential Learning and Simulation in Medical and Health Sciences Education

Think Spatially With Game Engine

Indy: a virtual reality multi-player game for navigation skills training

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