TY - GEN
T1 - Virtual reality as a new opportunity in geography education
T2 - 5th International Conference on Education and Training Technologies, ICETT 2019
AU - Cho, Daeheon
AU - Chun, Bo Ae
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2019/5/27
Y1 - 2019/5/27
N2 - The purpose of this paper is to present the necessity and possibility of geospatial virtual reality (VR) in secondary education of Korea from teachers‟ perspectives through development and application of professional development program(PDP). Recently, the emergence of information technologies, such as virtual cities, digital globes, and virtual explorations open a new horizon for teaching and learning geography. This is, geospatial VR offers realistic 3D learning environments and provides immersive, engaging, and interactive experiences and virtual tours. Despite the opportunities of geospatial VR, there is still a lack of research on the PDP for teachers who apply it to the actual classroom. Therefore, this study developed a teachers' PDP based on the demand survey and expert advisory. After applying 15 hours of the PDP, we collected and analyzed data using the satisfaction questionnaires and focus group interviews with regard to the obstacles that teachers found in the PDP with VR and suggested several possible solutions from the viewpoint of teachers.
AB - The purpose of this paper is to present the necessity and possibility of geospatial virtual reality (VR) in secondary education of Korea from teachers‟ perspectives through development and application of professional development program(PDP). Recently, the emergence of information technologies, such as virtual cities, digital globes, and virtual explorations open a new horizon for teaching and learning geography. This is, geospatial VR offers realistic 3D learning environments and provides immersive, engaging, and interactive experiences and virtual tours. Despite the opportunities of geospatial VR, there is still a lack of research on the PDP for teachers who apply it to the actual classroom. Therefore, this study developed a teachers' PDP based on the demand survey and expert advisory. After applying 15 hours of the PDP, we collected and analyzed data using the satisfaction questionnaires and focus group interviews with regard to the obstacles that teachers found in the PDP with VR and suggested several possible solutions from the viewpoint of teachers.
KW - Geography education
KW - Interactive learning
KW - Professional development program (PDP)
KW - Teacher
KW - Virtual reality(VR)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072222549&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3337682.3337701
DO - 10.1145/3337682.3337701
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85072222549
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 140
EP - 145
BT - ICETT 2019 - 2019 5th International Conference on Education and Training Technologies
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 27 May 2019 through 29 May 2019
ER -