The document describes Robin de Lange's research into using virtual reality (VR) for education. It outlines an elective course where students explored VR's potential for science and education by creating VR prototypes. Key findings were that VR shows potential but has limitations, content is limited but accessible to create, and good educational VR requires expertise. The research will now analyze VR's aspects for learning from perspectives of embodied, situated, and extended cognition by stimulating classroom VR experiments.

1. SURF – Edubloggers Meetup
Robin de Lange
10 mei 2016

2. Robin de Lange - CV
Bachelor
Physics
Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence
MSc. MediaTechnology
Focus: Extended cognition &
Augmented Reality
EDUCATION WORK
Owner BijlesinWassenaar
Video production 1st MOOC
(Massive Open Online Course)

3. Robin de Lange - CV
Bachelor
Physics
Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence
MSc. MediaTechnology
Focus: Extended cognition &
Augmented Reality
EDUCATION WORK
Owner BijlesinWassenaar
Video production 1st MOOC
(Massive Open Online Course)
PhD student @ MediaTechnology
Promotor: Bas Haring
Founder Lyceo CodeLab

4. Focus of research – 1st phase
• In what ways can VR be used as a tool for
learning?
• What are the obstacles and opportunities
for implementingVR in the field of
education?

5. Method
• Elective research course

6. Virtual Reality for Science & Education
• Elective research course for 25 bachelor and master students
• Exploring the potential of VR for science & education;
• Obtaining skills to create interactive VR content using e.g.
Unity3D and 360˚ film technology;
• Creating a VR prototype as final project

7. VR content creation
GAME ENGINES
e.g. Unity3D
Combination of 3D
designing and coding
environment

8. VR content creation
PHOTO /VIDEO
RicohTheta or GoPro-
based setup
Workflow similar to
regular video

9. VR content creation
USER GENERATED
ExistingVR
applications where
users create
content

10. Student projects
WWW. ROBINDELANGE.COM UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN @ROBINDELANGE

11. Student projects
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12. Method
• Elective research course
• Explorative qualitative research
• Symposium

13. Findings

14. People see potential forVR in education

15. VR is not the best solution for every
subject

16. Potential use cases for many different
fields of study
• Experiencing archeological sites
• Design tool for architecture students
• 3D anatomy lessons
• Visualizations of molecules and chemical reactions
• Practicing public speaking or moot court
• 360 video for studying social dynamics
• Learning languages by conversation in multi-user applications
• History lectures in ancient Rome
• Immersive data visualizations
• More intense social experience of MOOCs

17. CurrentVirtual Reality technology has
clear limitations

18. Available educationalVR content is limited

19. Creating content forVR is not as hard as
people think

20. New medium, new rules

21. Making good educational content
requires a combination of expertise

22. Research course good format for
exploringVR possibilities

23. Further experimentation is wanted

24. There are many reasons why we should
experiment withVR in education.

25. VR learning experiences can be fun!

26. Possibility to design entire environment for
learning

27. Possibilities for experiental and active learning

28. Possibilities for embodied learning

29. Valuable learning experiences can be brought
to a much larger audience.

30. Integration of simulations with context
dependent information

31. Education can play a part in shapingVR as a
medium.

32. Focus of research – 2nd phase
• Analyzing aspects of Virtual Reality which
make it a powerful learning tool
• From perspective of embodied, situated and
extended cognition

33. How?
WWW. ROBINDELANGE.COM UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN @ROBINDELANGE
Focus of research – 2nd phase
• Stimulating VR experiments in the classroom