Applications of Social VR Environments in Education
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Technology Enhanced Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 12041
Special Issue Editors
Interests: virtual reality; authoring tools; artificial intelligence; human–computer interfaces; culture; education; architecture
Interests: virtual reality; artificial intelligence; smart cities; brain–computer interfaces; accessibility
Interests: eLearning; collaborative learning; blended learning; artificial intelligence; security; human–computer interfaces
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will collect interdisciplinary efforts in the IT and sociology and humanities sectors on the topic of social virtual reality environments in education. Recent pandemic issues – aside from migration issues – have increased the need for high-quality distant-learning educational services where video telepresence is not enough and needs to be enhanced with immersive and native collaboration features. Virtual reality is the most suitable technology to achieve this goal but it suffers from several drawbacks such as increased hardware cost, the need for programming skills for educators to author such VR environments, and increased cognitive-navigational burden for learners. However, the pressure exerted by COVID-19 will result in public investments that will lead to significant research in the field and innovative solutions. In the past decade, virtual labs have been significantly used to minimize the cost of accessing expensive equipment or to avoid human risk, e.g., chemistry equipment or surgical environments, respectively. However, in the future, innovations will seek to replace real-space activities with social VR environments, targeting primary, secondary, vocational, and job training activities. This Special Issue will supplement the existing literature with results focused on social VR technology issues such as quality of experience, authoring tools, accessibility, efficiency, and ethics where the literature is still limited.
Dr. Dimitrios Ververidis
Dr. Spiros Nikolopoulos
Dr. Anastasios Karakostas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Immersive learning
- Virtual reality in education
- Social VR
- Collaborative learning
- Distant learning
- eLearning
- Educational technologies
- VR Authoring tools
- Accessibility in education through VR
- Cognitive load in educational VR environments
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