Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
the room setup is very much the same as Mark Gill’s work on networking #virtualreality gogglesin 2020:
learning spaces has been a huge topic in the last decade, with the U leading in the field.
Now we are witnessing the emergence of a subfield: learning spaces for immersive collaborations:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=learning+spaces
A new study co-authored by Richard Mayer,
The study took place with about 100 middle school students taking a brief “virtual field trip” to learn about climate science. Some students experienced the field trip while wearing a VR headset, while others watched the same material in standard video on a computer screen.
“higher ratings of presence, interest, and enjoyment,”
The paper noted an obvious logistical benefit to virtual field trips over getting on a bus for an in-person outing. “Virtual field trips make it possible to experience things that are too expensive, dangerous, or impossible in the real world,” it says. The experiment did not address the difference in educational value between a real-world field trip and a virtual one.
for programs like nursing, pharmacy and medicine, VR seems promising for teaching some skills, as a piece of a broader curriculum that includes in-person hands-on learning as well.
My (his) main research interests are augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) as well as camera networks. This includes building novel 3D user interfaces (e.g., using projection mapping or VR headsets) that adapt the layout of spatial UI elements based on implicit user input (e.g., gaze data) and building toolkits for room-scale interfaces. More recently, I also investigate different realities afforded by the combination of VR devices and camera networks.
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more on haptic in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=haptic
https://yalemaquette.com/The-Verb-Collective
The Verb Collective is a toolkit for creating interactions and experiences in Unity. We employed a strategy of reducing code into very basic commands, such as “to look.” Each verb can be triggered by another verb or can be active on start, and each verb can act as a trigger for an array of other verbs. Our goal was to create a system inspired by the exploration of concrete experiences as a way to open the technology to users less interested in a specific outcome, such as a game, and more interested in exploring the material properties of the worlds they create. In doing so, we hope to bring in a more diverse set of makers that challenge existing notions or expectations of these media.
https://ccam.yale.edu/projects/blended-reality-0
https://nercomp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/nercomp-verb-collective.pdf
Making Sense of Learning in XR
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more on cognitive load in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=cognitive+load