Virtual Reality Environments as a Support in Elementary School
Héctor Cardona-Reyes, José Eder Guzmán Mendoza, Olivia Paola García-Coronado · Advances in early childhood and K-12 education · 2022
Virtual reality is an emerging technology that can support the teaching and learning process by allowing the user to acquire knowledge in an immersive and interactive way. Virtual environments can help students to build their learning through experiences abstracted from reality by representing different concepts and interacting with well-defined elements within virtual scenarios. This work proposes the production and use of virtual reality environments as a support for the acquisition of skills within the teaching-learning process of children in basic education, including children with special educational needs. A proposed model is presented under the instructional design that considers technological platforms, multidisciplinary teams for the production of virtual reality environments according to the needs of users, and thus offers both teachers, parents, and students solutions that can promote the acquisition of learning skills through the execution of various tasks designed to encourage the user to the acquisition of learning skills in an immersive, safe, and fun way.