Need of Virtual Reality to Enrich Teacher Education

Virtual Reality and Education

Virtual Reality (VR), a new computer technology, has incredible potential in the education field. The reason for this assertion is that education is a field that requires the students to understand complex data, particularly in the study of science (see "Why is science hard to learn?" by Millar) and VR makes that task easier. VR presents information in a 3-dimensional form with the participant ...

Virtual Reality and Education

Introduction Background One of the challenges in working with instructional media is that developers and educators are confronted with a rapidly moving target in terms of information technology's capabilities. The business and entertainment sectors are driving a fast-paced evolution of the devices people have in their workplaces and homes. Researchers and educators are scrambling to assess the ...

The Application of Virtual Reality to Chemical Engineering and Education

Three major educational modules have been produced, as well as a number of smaller modules. The major modules include Vicher I, dealing with industrial methods of handling the decay of catalysts and heterogeneous catalytic mechanisms, Vicher II, dealing with non-isothermal effects in catalytic reactions, and Safety, which allows students to walk through a chemical pilot plant to evaluate the ha...

Virtual Reality Applied in Distance Education

Virtual Reality in Special Needs Early Education

—During recent decades there has been an observable development in the social state of so-termed disabled people. With the WHO's definition on the concepts of handicap, impairment and disability and the light cast on society's responsibility towards their impaired members a radical change started. The overwhelming technological development of the late 20 th century has inserted a new dimension ...