On the Design of Virtual Reality Learning Environments in Engineering

Vergara, Diego; Rubio, Manuel Pablo; Lorenzo, Miguel

doi:10.3390/mti1020011

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“…Therefore, a direct relationship exists between the design of a VT and the motivation generated in users to keep on using it. Consequently, both aspects (design and motivation) are really important in DVTs [40,41] and they should be taken into account in the early design phase of any didactic tool.…”

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A Virtual Resource for Enhancing the Spatial Comprehension of Crystal Lattices

2018

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Students commonly exhibit serious spatial comprehension difficulties when they come to learning crystal systems. To solve this problem, an active methodology based on the use of a Didactic Virtual Tool (DVT)-developed by the authors-is presented in this paper. The students' opinion was obtained from a survey carried out on 40 mechanical engineering students. The analysis of the obtained results reveals that, by using this DVT, students achieve a better understanding of the contents where spatial difficulties often arise during conventional teaching. Several DVT features were highly valued by the students, e.g., didactic use was rated 9.5 out of 10 and the methodology using the DVT in the classroom was rated 8.5 out of 10. In addition, the results revealed two factors that the students considered essential for using a DVT, both related to the tool design: (i) the modern aspect, i.e., it is necessary to keep a DVT updated to avoid obsolescence; and (ii) the DVT must be appealing in order to attract the students' attention.

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A Virtual Resource for Enhancing the Spatial Comprehension of Crystal Lattices

2018

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“…Therefore, we consider two aspects important for the research: improvement of monitoring system to forecast and managerial tasks to ensure environmental safety based on information technologies; professional development of specialists in the energy, environmental and related fields who are responsible for decisionmaking to reduce negative impact on environment. Was made systematization of scientific publications in the following areas directly related to this research based on analysis of the works of foreign and domestic scientists: -approaches to sustainable development [4,6,8,[10][11][12][13]; -development of indicators, indices to measure sustainable development [2,[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]; -construction of mathematical, software and hardware tools to assess impact of potentially dangerous enterprises on environment, taking into account economic indicators [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]; -training of specialists in the field of environmental safety and related industries [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46].…”

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Software tools for tasks of sustainable development of environmental problems: peculiarities of programming and implementation in the specialists’ preparation

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It is necessary to follow signed documents on development of renewable energy, modernization of fuel and energy sector enterprises and waste management in order to fulfil Ukraine's commitments to the global community on climate change prevention. Therefore, it is an urgent task to develop software that allows to solve problems of visual analysis of environmental status dynamics of territorial systems and to determine boundaries of individual territories stability. The authors propose new forms of monitoring data presentation of technogenic loadings and risks which reflect dynamics of environmental situation in the space of informative features. It is important to improve skills of professionals, particularly, stuff of the ministries, enterprises and organizations responsible for decision-making to reduce negative impact on environment and to train future professionals in this area. Curriculums of higher education institutions do not pay much attention on usage of software to support managerial decision-making to reduce negative impact on the environment. It is proposed to improve qualification of such specialists, responsible for management in the following areas: conducting training seminars at the ministries, institutions and departments interested in the implementation of developed systems; scientific and methodological support and advisory assistance in the process of implementation of the software; development and improvement of educational and methodological support for postgraduate students and trainees of advanced training, specialists responsible for decision -making in energy, environmental and related fields.

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“…The literature reports significant advances in this direction. Hence, VR has been explored in many topics including tourism [6,7], medicine [8], improving creativity [9,10], and in engineering [11,12]. Thus, allowing the students and trainers to attract their attention, breaking the monotony of classical teaching, learning concepts or processes to solve problems, provide maintenance, and implementing practices in a safe environment, as if the students were immersed in the industry.…”

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Incorporating Virtual Reality into the Teaching and Training of Grid-Tie Photovoltaic Power Plants Design

González-López

Arredondo²,

Laureano

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The current difficulty in obtaining financial resources to acquire equipment for training personnel and the requirement of well-trained engineers in the industry looking toward sustainability, creates an opportunity to innovate in teaching tools, such as the proposed in this article, where a virtual world is projected, integrating the planning and design of a photovoltaic power plant (PV). The user can interact while immersed in the virtual scene as if the PV system were already installed, illustrating technical characteristics of selected equipment and its installation details, while the user is interacting with didactic activities focused on visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning. This paper summarizes an initiative within the teaching-learning context, which aims to show the advantages of using modern tools, such as virtual reality, to achieve teaching goals in a renewable energy course.

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On the Design of Virtual Reality Learning Environments in Engineering

Cited by 124 publications

References 36 publications

A Virtual Resource for Enhancing the Spatial Comprehension of Crystal Lattices

A Virtual Resource for Enhancing the Spatial Comprehension of Crystal Lattices

Software tools for tasks of sustainable development of environmental problems: peculiarities of programming and implementation in the specialists’ preparation

Incorporating Virtual Reality into the Teaching and Training of Grid-Tie Photovoltaic Power Plants Design

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