Investigating the promise of the virtual field trip: Capitalizing on the advantages of virtual reality for conveying field site information
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https://doi.org/10.56198/Keywords:
Virtual Reality, Field Trips, Geology, Higher EducationAbstract
In education today, technologies enable learning far beyond actual boundaries. While students of yesterday went on physical field trips, today’s students can experience virtual counterparts. Recent developments in immersive technologies are finally reaching a broad audience, entering the mainstream, and enabling us to deliver on a long-held promise: high-fidelity, immersive virtual field trips that can find their rightful place in education. There is still, however, little known about the effectiveness of virtual field trips compared to actual field trips. We present our research approach to study an introductory geosciences course utilizing virtual field experiences compared to an actual field trip.
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