Virtual Reality – This is the future of education, something that will change the way the world “sees” everything without changing their location.
By Marc Bellés Fabregat, 28/12/2016
The number of virtual reality applications is increasing steadily, especially those products developed for the entertainment and game-play business. At the same time, virtual environments have also attracted the educative community interest. Hence, education professionals are finding, in virtual reality, an immersive technology providing a complete learning experience, safer than physical world.
In this post we aim to briefly present some research outcomes about virtual reality and special education. Therefore, we will address what are the virtual reality learning environments (VRLEs), which are the benefits of those VRLEs within the education field and what activities have been applied in those environments (always according to research). Finally, to conclude, we will briefly analyse some example of research performed using VRLEs, of course in the field of special education.
Learning environments, what are they?
Mikropoulos (2011) defined virtual reality learning environments as “a virtual environment that is…
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