Educating Educators about Virtual Reality in Virtual Reality: Effective Learning Principles Operationalized in a VR Solution

Henri Pirkkalainen, Eria Makridou, Osku Torro, Panagiotis Kosmas, Charalambos Vrasidas, Kari Peltola

2021

Abstract

Virtual Reality (VR) is transforming organizational training as users are immersed in realistic situations that may not exist yet in the physical world. The theoretical principles that make VR effective for learning in an immersive way are emerging in literature but remain poorly understood in practice nor have they been articulated in available VR solutions. This study demonstrates an IT artifact that is targeted at educators in companies and in higher education. The study synthesizes the key principles that make VR environments effective for learning, derives design principles for a corresponding artifact and demonstrates a VR solution that enables educators to absorb the principles of the power of VR by experiencing them first hand. Creating this artifact and delivering it to educators is important as they are responsible for diffusing VR to current employees in companies and future workforce in higher education.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Pirkkalainen H., Makridou E., Torro O., Kosmas P., Vrasidas C. and Peltola K. (2021). Educating Educators about Virtual Reality in Virtual Reality: Effective Learning Principles Operationalized in a VR Solution. In Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2021) - Volume 3: KMIS; ISBN 978-989-758-533-3, SciTePress, pages 75-82. DOI: 10.5220/0010638100003064

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kmis21,
author={Henri Pirkkalainen and Eria Makridou and Osku Torro and Panagiotis Kosmas and Charalambos Vrasidas and Kari Peltola},
title={Educating Educators about Virtual Reality in Virtual Reality: Effective Learning Principles Operationalized in a VR Solution},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2021) - Volume 3: KMIS},
year={2021},
pages={75-82},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010638100003064},
isbn={978-989-758-533-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2021) - Volume 3: KMIS
TI - Educating Educators about Virtual Reality in Virtual Reality: Effective Learning Principles Operationalized in a VR Solution
SN - 978-989-758-533-3
AU - Pirkkalainen H.
AU - Makridou E.
AU - Torro O.
AU - Kosmas P.
AU - Vrasidas C.
AU - Peltola K.
PY - 2021
SP - 75
EP - 82
DO - 10.5220/0010638100003064
PB - SciTePress