Virtual Reality in Curriculum and Pedagogy: Evidence from Secondary Classrooms

Abstract

The aim of Virtual reality in curriculum and pedagogy: Evidence from secondary classrooms is to ‘stimulate a deeper conversation about the pedagogical value of iVR by sharing insights into what happens when you take this emerging technology out of the controlled conditions of laboratory and put it into the dynamic natural setting of the school’. The introduction starts with the author’s story of how she connected with a school principal to do research in schools. It then explains technical terms used in the book, including outlining the difference between immersive virtual reality (iVR), the focus of the book, and screen virtual reality. This section also helps readers new to the field understand such terms as positional tracking, degrees of freedom, interaction and navigation, cybersickness and learning affordance. The chapter ends with a brief outline of the key ideas in the book and the content of the next seven chapters.