Virtual Networks and Asynchronous Communities: Methodological Reflections on the Digital

Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies

2023

This chapter provides an insight into the justification of pedagogical principles within the contexts of extended reality. The global COVID-19 pandemic served to exacerbate the complex ambiguity surrounding XR in practice. Training for the strategic management of risk in healthcare practice in situated contexts of healthcare provision has been a key focus in the use of XR in practice. It involves rational aspects of cognitive knowledge or the purist demonstration of psychomotor skills and affective domain learning . This is achieved via the exploration of the key epistemologies or ways of knowing, from a theoretical perspective, which can be used to ensure the level of authenticity necessary to highlight the pedagogical shifts in the application of learning theory which now characterise responsive curriculum design and adaptation to accommodate XR in practice.

Praxes of Transformational Creativity

Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies

2023

Progressive Pedagogy for Extended Reality

Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design

2023

This chapter provides an insight into the theoretical perspectives which form the foundation of extended reality (XR) and its emergence in practice as a fundamental part of science curricula. Issues such as the authenticity of learning, the validity and reliability of XR within processes of assessment, and the theoretical underpinnings of pedagogical approaches in health professions pedagogy are illuminated. Also considered are the implications of XR within the context of science-based learning and the delineation of cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of learning in relation to patient outcomes at the front line of care in applied scientific practice. The Covid-19 pandemic, which has impacted all science based pedagogic practice since March 2020, is also considered in the context of moves to ensure that science education can continue, albeit via hybrid models of learning as opposed to traditional pedagogical approaches which have remained little altered over the last century.

Twenty-First Century Immersion Technologies in Health Professions Pedagogy

Advances in Information Quality and Management

2024

This encyclopedia entry provides insight into the justification of pedagogy in the context of extended reality (XR), which itself encompasses virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed/hybrid reality (MR), and how all have evolved into an ongoing source of complex ambiguity over the last decade, which the COVID-19 pandemic only highlighted and radically exacerbated. Being able to understand and operationalize each in the context of health professions pedagogy and scholarship became a necessity, which few would now ever question but which still raises issues in relation to the practices of risk assessment and management in professional fields of practice such as medicine, nursing, midwifery, and allied health professions practice.