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A Proposed VR Platform for Supporting Blended Learning Post COVID-19
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Alan Ryan ,
Stuart O’Connor ,
Fabio Caraffini ,
Stefan Kuhn ,
Salim Hasshu
Education Sciences, Volume: 12, Issue: 7, Start page: 435
Swansea University Author:
Fabio Caraffini
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DOI (Published version): 10.3390/educsci12070435
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a shift in teaching practice towards blended learning for many higher education institutions. This led to the rapid adoption of certain digital technologies within existing teaching structures as a means to meet student access needs. This paper is an attempt to summarise...
| Published in: | Education Sciences |
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| ISSN: | 2227-7102 |
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MDPI AG
2022
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60899 |
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The COVID-19 pandemic caused a shift in teaching practice towards blended learning for many higher education institutions. This led to the rapid adoption of certain digital technologies within existing teaching structures as a means to meet student access needs. This paper is an attempt to summarise and extend pre-COVID-19 pedagogical research to leverage digital immersive technologies for blended teaching in the post-pandemic era. This paper forms both a review of these methodologies and a case study of the I-Ulysses Virtual Learning Environment as an example of a platform that leverages such immersive digital technologies and employs instrumental use of VR. To further clarify, the purpose of the paper is to describe and propose a distance learning solution with immersive VR qualities; this is what the I-Ulysses environment represents, as the main obstacle to learners of site-specific information during the pandemic has been lack of on-site accessibility. Furthermore, this is of key importance, because Joyce’s novel takes place in historical Dublin, where access to the physical location of the story is indispensable to a reader. |
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| Keywords: |
audio-visual technologies; blended learning; pedagogy; virtual learning environments; virtual reality |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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This research received no external funding. |
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7 |
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435 |