Virtual Reality and Art History: A Case Study of Digital Humanities and Immersive Learning Environments

James Hutson, Trenton Olsen · Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice · 2022 · higher-education-pedagogy · 10.33423/jhetp.v22i2.5036 · record hutson2022-virtual-reality-and-art-history-a
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virtual reality immersive realities perceived usefulness Likert scale learning outcomes Cheaper head-mounted displays with audio-visual immersivity plus a growing library of educational applications remove the cost and usability barriers, which is what now permits adoption in universities rather than only in the military and medicine. Prior everyday exposure to consumer motion-sensing and touchscreen devices lowers the perceived novelty of VR, which reduces visitors' reluctance to try immersive installations. digital immigrants "buy rather than build" strategy assignments using VR perception of usefulness likelihood to use this technology demographic data practice-report

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what this limits: the educational claims made from this study: the outcome recorded is perceived usefulness reported by students and faculty on a Likert scale, so it is a measure of opinion about the technology rather than of learning
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limitationsHalf the surveyed students did not want the technology used in their other courses.
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what this limits: the enthusiasm reported here as support for wider adoption: only half of the polled group said they would like to see such experiences integrated into other coursework
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limitationsWhat the existing literature covers is attributed to what was affordable, not to what was found.
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what this limits: the state of the VR-in-education literature: its limitations and range are attributed to the budgetary and technological constraints faced by previous educators, so absence of evidence in an area reflects cost rather than a negative finding
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limitationsThe field is stated to have limited understanding of how the technology affects any specific learning outcome.
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what this limits: a claim that VR enhances learning: the paper states there is
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controlscontrol groups shown only text, pictures and PowerPoint slides, but taken through the SAME SEQUENCE OF EVENTS as the virtual-reality group
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eliminates: the novelty and structure of the session rather than the virtual reality - same sequence, same duration, different medium · outcome (stated by the tagger, no quotation): held
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conceptsvirtual reality
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also in: Likert scale
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senseseducational benefit - AS PERCEIVED USEFULNESS: what the surveys collect is how useful students and faculty judge the technology to be compared with other media, which is the quantity every result in this paper is about
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sensesadoption - DRIVEN BY HARDWARE COST AND AVAILABILITY, not by evidence of effect: the paper traces both the field's slow uptake and the shape of its literature to budget and equipment
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sensesresistance to a new teaching technology - AS A RECURRING PATTERN, not a fact about VR: the chalkboard after 1801 and the magic lantern in the nineteenth century met the same reaction
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claim_relationsreplicates → prior VR-in-education studies (Apostolellis & Bowman, 2014; Cheung et al. 2013; Huang, Rauch & Liaw, 2010; Rizzo et al. 2006; Hussein & Nätterdal, 2015)
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concept_edgesperceived usefulness —operationalised-as→ Likert scale
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content_tagsLikert scale
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content_tagsRoughly three quarters of the surveyed students said the VR assignment helped them learn, and only three of the twenty-three disagreed.
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content_tagsThree quarters of students judged the VR experience more useful for learning the assigned topic than reading about it.
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content_tagsEvery faculty respondent rated classroom use of VR as moderately to extremely useful.
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content_tagsAll faculty but one found locating applications relevant to their field neutral to extremely difficult.
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content_tagsSeven of the eight faculty respondents rated the Oculus Quest 2 headset extremely easy to use.
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content_tagsThe preliminary survey showed students are aware of VR but inexperienced with it, already own the phones or tablets needed to run it, want it in their education for career reasons, yet will not spend their own money on a headset.
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content_tagsStudent enthusiasm was bounded: despite reporting learning benefits, only half wanted VR experiences carried over into their other courses.
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content_tagsGetting started was not a barrier for students, with 83% rating launching the assigned application neutral or easy.
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content_tagsvirtual reality
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content_tagsdigital immigrants
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content_tags"buy rather than build" strategy
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content_tagsassignments using VR
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content_tagsperception of usefulness
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content_tagslikelihood to use this technology
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content_tagsdemographic data
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content_tags74% / 3 (12%) of 23 — share of students who felt VR assisted their learning versus the number who disagreed
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content_tags.quantities[0]the tagger's words
content_tags75% — share of students finding the VR experience more useful than reading about the topic
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content_tags65% — share of students who would recommend the VR activity to other students
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content_tags46 (35.9%) / 33 (24.7%) of 128 — preliminary-survey respondents who were moderately familiar with VR versus not familiar at all
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content_tags106 of 128 — students who owned no VR headset at all, against small counts owning Cardboard, Rift, PlayStation VR and Quest models
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content_tags23 (17 + 6) — students who answered the course survey, split into undergraduates and graduate students
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content_tags78% / 81% — share of the student course-survey sample identifying as female and as white
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content_tags12 — faculty representatives targeted for the faculty survey, two from each school across the university
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