Students' attitudes towards educational virtual environments

被引：36

作者：

Mikropoulos T.A. ^{[1
]}

Chalkidis A. ^{[1
]}

Katsikis A. ^{[1
]}

Emvalotis A. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Department of Primary Education, University of Ioannina

来源：

Education and Information Technologies | 1998年 / 3卷 / 2期

关键词：

Attitudes; Case studies; Computer assisted instruction (CAI); Higher education; Human computer interface (HCI); Virtual reality;

D O I：

10.1023/A:1009687025419

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学科分类号：

摘要：

This case study reports on an investigation of the attitude of education students towards virtual reality (VR) as a tool in the educational process, and towards virtual learning environments on specific disciplines. Our results indicate a favourable attitude towards VR in the educational process. Although immersion was not supported in this study, half of the students declared immersion experiences. Students consider the mouse the most effective input device for navigation in virtual environments, with a joystick the second one. Because the sampling population is small, the qualitative results must be regarded as tentative. There is, however, a need for further investigation, which is currently being undertaken by our group. © 1998 IFIP, published by Chapman & Hall Ltd.

引用

页码：137 / 148

页数：11

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