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Ronaghi, Mohammad Hossein – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2023
Purpose: Sustainability is one of the global challenges, individuals and businesses need to change their behavior and consumption patterns to move towards sustainable development. This is not possible without planning for education and related knowledge transfer. On the other hand, disruptive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Computer Simulation, Sustainability
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King, Seth A.; Dzenga, Chaidamoyo; Burch, Taneal; Kennedy, Krystal – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2021
Virtual reality (VR) places individuals within a simulated experience using an array of visual, auditory, and tactile interfaces. Research suggests VR, which facilitates the rehearsal of actual job duties and performance assessment during training, may improve professional development across a range of disciplines. Although studies incorporating…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Training, Behavior Change, College Students
Cindy Deanne Plunkett – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Worldwide, 50 million people live with dementia. There is a failure to identify best practices for teaching students to identify the common features of dementia and to determine effective ways to prevent behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. The purpose of this quantitative quasi-experimental study was to examine whether exposure to a…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Dementia, Allied Health Occupations Education, Empathy
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Meindl, James N.; Saba, Serena; Gray, Mackenzie; Stuebing, Laurie; Jarvis, Angela – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2019
Background: Needle phobias are common in children and adults worldwide. One effective intervention for this phobia is exposure therapy where a participant is gradually exposed to increasing levels of the fear-evoking stimulus while differential reinforcement is applied. This intervention, however, may be difficult to implement with some medical…
Descriptors: Fear, Adults, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders