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Learning Science in Immersive Virtual Reality
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Parong, Jocelyn; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
The goals of the study were (a) to compare the instructional effectiveness of immersive virtual reality (VR) versus a desktop slideshow as media for teaching scientific knowledge, and (b) to examine the efficacy of adding a generative learning strategy to a VR lesson. In Experiment 1, college students viewed a biology lesson about how the human…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Simulated Environment, Computer Simulation, Educational Technology