Implementation of Immersive Technologies in Professional Training of Teachers

Overcoming Integration Thresholds for Augmented Reality

“…This involves understanding the specific needs of users and providing incentives [27] to facilitate a smooth roll-out and promote autonomous learning from the learners' perspective. The characteristics of the onboarding vary in terms of formats, however, recent work in the field [7,15] can provide insight into how to scale-up learning adoption. AR constitutes a significant add-on benefit to existing industrial products and is a part of a complete service offering aimed at educating audiences, with in-built potential for customization.…”

“…The growth in expertise builds on anticipated role expansion, where immersion in AR becomes part of the strategy and operational tactics. In cases where this link between strategy and tactics is missing, well-intended attempts may impede learning and the production of valuable use-cases that could be further pursued [7].…”

“…The differences among the realities are that AR superimposes virtual and real objects in a real-time display, MR consists of high-fidelity holographic 3D models integrated into the real world, and VR allows users to control and navigate their movements in a simulated real or imagined world [2]. AR's most significant advantage is its ability to create immersive hybrid learning environments that combine digital and physical objects, thus making implementation procedures a reason to investigate learning progression [7]. To deepen learning, it is common to involve reflection as part of training sessions to restructure existing knowledge [8].…”

Onboarding, a Learning Approach to Overcome Adoption Thresholds With Extended Reality

“…People's anticipated role expansion due to immersion when they are involved in XR need to be part of a strategy and operational tactics so that human aspects does not set aside and cause promising attempts to early failure. Such attempts impede learning and production of use-cases that can provide valuable business opportunity to pursue further [9]. Insufficient resources allocated in-house with knowledge around XR and with a network to build progression around it as competence area in-house only minimizes potential offsets.…”

“…Engineers and manufacturers can by using XR experience their creations before they are built, which has impact on both strategy and the heightened sense of reality. Since learning attempts and knowledge building is deeply rooted in the performance of complex operations, experiences from more controlled educational settings have potential for commercial practices and vice versa, which may motivate further work in the field [9], [10]. With rising interest in providing guiding examples, experiences from learning practices and adoption steps towards an embedded practice of XR research may support continued practical implementation efforts [11].…”