Exploring Intervention Strategies for Distracted Students in VR Classrooms

Han, Yu; Miao, Yu; Lü, Jie; Guo, Mei; Xiao, Yi

doi:10.1145/3491101.3519627

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“…Though VR has shown many benets in teaching in higher education [57,71,74], our study identied that HMD VR doesn't facilitate students' better immediate retention than slides and desktop applications. From our qualitative analysis, we found that cost and technological access are primary concerns students have regarding introducing VR into formal classrooms, which has also been identied from recent work [33,45]. These ndings suggest that VR may not be the best choice for all learning problems.…”

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From Artifacts to Outcomes: Comparison of HMD VR, Desktop, and Slides Lectures for Food Microbiology Laboratory Instruction

Xue

Guo

Yao

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Despite the value of VR (Virtual Reality) for educational purposes, the instructional power of VR in Biology Laboratory education remains under-explored. Laboratory lectures can be challenging due to students' low motivation to learn abstract scientic concepts and low retention rate. Therefore, we designed a VR-based lecture on fermentation and compared its eectiveness with lectures using PowerPoint slides and a desktop application. Grounded in the theory of distributed cognition and motivational theories, our study examined how learning happens in each condition from students' learning outcomes, behaviors, and perceptions. Our result indicates that VR facilitates students' long-term retention to learn by cultivating their longer visual attention and fostering a higher sense of immersion, though students' short-term retention remains the same across all conditions. This study extends current research on VR studies by identifying the characteristics of each teaching artifact and providing design implications for integrating VR technology into higher education.

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