Improving Technology- Enhanced Immersive Learning With Design-Based Implementation Research
Eileen McGivney · Proceedings. · 2023
While research on learning with immersive virtual reality (VR) to date has primarily focused on technology-focused or media comparison experiments, the field of learning sciences increasingly calls for research that accounts for classroom constraints to better translate findings to practice and instructional design.This paper describes the benefit of design-based implementation research (DBIR) as a method for studying immersive learning technologies and a work-in-progress study of VR that employed DBIR to illustrate its application.The process surfaced learning outcomes and instructional methods that would have been difficult to find in a lab experiment, including the benefit of knowledge-building discourse for students' development of curious dispositions about scientists' work.