Lisa Castaneda, Steven Isaacs & Mark Suter - Virtual Reality in Education: Exploring the New Frontier
Steve Isaacs, Educator, Bernards Township Public Schools
Lisa Castaneda, Founder/CEO, Foundry10
Mark Suter, Educator, Pandora-Gilboa Schools
This presentation was given at the 2016 Serious Play Conference, hosted by the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Foundry10’s Virtual Reality pilot study is following the experiences of students and teachers in a variety of content areas to determine the potential and challenges in terms of making VR a viable teaching and learning tool for immersive content consumption and creation. We put VR hardware in front of over 400 students in 8 different schools across North America, completed pre/mid/post surveys and did extensive qualitative interviews with instructors in order to better understand what it means to learn with virtual reality. From implementation, technical challenges, content integration, creation in Unity/Unreal and 360 video we systematically captured VR in an applied educational environment. The anecdotal accounts and data obtained informs the next steps in implementing VR for educational practices.
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