Research on VR-Supported Flipped Classroom Based on Blended Learning — A Case Study in "Learning English through News"

Abstract

Combined with educational information technology, advanced concepts of ubiquitous learning and mobile learning, the paper incorporates technologies of virtual reality, cloud computing, context awareness with blended learning mode in flipped classroom， which aims to meet the requirements of personalized teaching and learning by building a ubiquitous, smart and non-stop learning environment, which could truly achieve the student-centered teaching. Thus, in this paper, this VR-supported blended flipped classroom model was established and its features were analyzed, which could establish a three-dimensional virtual learning situation to simulate a user's physical presence in a virtual or imaginary environment, which is a brand new cognition experience. The model was applied in an empirical study of college English teaching through "English News" class. The results showed that this model achieved good teaching effects and had a guiding significance in advancing educational informatization both to improve students' overall cultural accomplishments and to meet the requirements of national, social and personal developments.Index Terms-Virtual reality, blended learning, flipped classroom, college English teaching.

English-Chinese Machine Translation Based on Transfer Learning and Chinese-English Corpus

“…On the basis of the general model, the training corpus is converted into an in-domain corpus and the parent model is fine-tuned. We can think of domain adaptation as transfer learning from an out-of-domain parent model to a domain-specific child model [ 21 ]. However, in real scenes such as online translation engines, the domain of sentences is not given.…”

Multilingual Education

“…The sensation of being in virtual scenes helped the students eliminate external obstacles and fully immerse themselves in the language learning project. The three-dimensional virtual learning situation and imitation of physical presence in a virtual environment turned out to be a completely new cognitive experience for students and allowed them to achieve good learning outcomes in terms of improving intercultural communication skills (Li & Cao, 2020). Although virtual and augmented reality technologies allow students to virtually observe events, places, and stories from a new perspective and gain practical experience that they did not have before, the expected learning outcomes cannot be guaranteed without appropriate learning objectives.…”

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“…There have also been many studies in recent years that have begun to explore ways to introduce VR into the traditional classroom to enable blended learning. Most studies show that, therefore, although VR can provide learners with an immersive, interactive, and authentic learning environment, the use of VR as an assistive tool in teaching and learning still needs to be integrated with the traditional classroom (Li & Cao, 2020).…”