This document discusses extended reality learning environments created by Zoan Oy. It introduces Antti Lähtevänoja as the head of education at Zoan and discusses how virtual reality, augmented reality, and 3D models can be used to create interactive learning environments that make content more engaging and practical to learn. It provides an example of an extended reality learning environment that allows students to visualize Senate Square in Helsinki in 1830 through virtual time travel. The goal is to build knowledge collaboratively through phenomenon-based learning in group tasks.

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Extended Reality
Learning Environments

2. Antti Lähtevänoja
Special Education Teacher
EdD Student @ University of Jyväskylä
Head of Education @ Zoan
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Clients

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Biggest VR-studio in Finland
Seven years of VR/AR/3D
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5. Extended Reality?
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XR = Extended Reality
Stage of virtuality
Virtual Reality (VR)Augmented Reality (AR)Real Reality (RR)

7. 1AR = Augmented Reality
Bringing computer-generated models to the
real life
● 3D models
● Visualizing text book content
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8. 2VR = Virtual Reality
Full simulation experience
● Historical events
● Dangerous situations
● Physically limited situations
● Ethically limited situations
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9. 3360° environments and
3D-models
More possibilities to view content
● Mobile devices, iPads, computers
● Magic window
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10. Extended Reality and schools
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Finnish Core Curriculum
2016 and challenges of
teaching
Curriculum: Student is an active actor.
Knowledge can’t be transferred - it can only
be built
To study and visualize different phenomena,
traditional book and audiovisual
presentations may not be enough
Lack of interest can lead to decrease of
learning motivation
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Extended Reality and
learning
● makes it possible to study and visualize
things practically and in a motivating way
● doesn’t mean one student with VR glasses at
a time -> knowledge is built also by AR and
3D models together with other students
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XR -based learning
environments (XRLE)
Phenomenon-based learning environments
Brings new ways to visualize the learning objects
Tasks includes mainly group work, where students build
knowledge together
Environments can be viewed with VR-glasses, mobile phones,
tablets and computers.
XRLE
VR
AR
2D

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Devices for XRLE
Cardboard
Cheap and easy, eg. for
promotions.
E.g Google Cardboard
Stand alone- VR
Full VR experience easily, no
computer needed
E.g Oculus Go
VR-glasses
Fully interactive VR-experience
E.g HTC Vive, Oculus Rift ja
Playstation VR
Tablet/computer
Environments can be viewed
as 2D

15. Example XRLE -environment:
1800s Senate square
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Time travel:
1800s Senate Square
Student starts the experience from the modern day
Senate square. Student can review the statue of
Aleksanteri II and the buildings designed by Engel.
When the student navigates to the memory plate of
Ulrika Eleonora Church, she/he is taken to the the year
1830. The environment changes quite a lot...
Questions arise:
● Why there are cows?
● What are these buildings, and do they exist still in the year 2018?
● How the history of Senate square and the statue of Aleksanteri II
are connected to the history of Finland?
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17. Example task
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Familiarize yourself with the 1830s Senate square.
● What buildings you see?
● Describe the buildings, their building material and position.
● Draw a ground plan.
● Compare the ground plan you drew to the modern ground plan.
● What buildings that existed in the 1800s can still be found in the modern day Senate
square, if any?
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Antti Lähtevänoja
Head of Education @ ZOAN
Master of Educational Sciences
antti.lahtevanoja@zoan.fi
+358 44 0888061