{"id":3520,"date":"2017-08-03T09:02:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T09:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2017-08-03T09:02:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T09:02:44","slug":"vr-in-stem-teaching-innovations-from-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2017\/08\/03\/vr-in-stem-teaching-innovations-from-science\/","title":{"rendered":"VR in STEM teaching – innovations from Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

The team
\nOur \u2018Virtual Reality in STEM teaching\u2019 team is from the School of Science and CAP. We are a mixture of academics, technicians, E-learning support and most importantly a student developer; Dr Sandie Dann, Dr Firat Batmaz, Rod Dring, Sean Slingsby, Samantha Davis, Lee Barnett and Nikolaos Demosthenous. This grouping of both staff and students has so far been a successful blend of knowledge, kickstarting our Teaching Innovation Award project with real energy.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Aims
\n\u2022 Encourage deep learning within lab based teaching
\n\u2022 Allow more focused time for exploration of the experiments without being at risk to themselves or others
\n\u2022 Increase students awareness of the equipment available to them in the labs<\/p>\n

Objectives
\n\u2022 Create an interactive resource that allows for practice, familiarisation and visualisation before students enter a lab session.
\n\u2022 Increase student engagement in the module by encouraging them to see beyond the procedural aspects of an experiment.
\n\u2022 Evaluate the tool\u2019s impact on student learning and ability to be transferable.<\/p>\n

Progress so far
\nSo far so good as they say\u2026 or are these famous last words?
\nWe have met as a group a number of times now to discuss the way we would like our final application to work and which Chemistry experiment in particular to concentrate on developing the virtual reality (VR) for. The real crux of this project is to not get carried away with wanting to try too much. Instead we are concentrating on 1 or 2 activities within the VR as our aim for this project is to prove the concept, rather than becoming carried away with new toys. Following this we would look to expand the offering of different experiments and activities within the application through further projects.
\nPart of our discussions also included a trip to STEMLab whilst taking a look at what our talented student developer Nik has been testing to date.<\/p>\n

Next stages
\nThe next step in our project is to decide on the exact final product we would like to create and for our student developer Nik to begin paid work in September. We will also be visiting STEMLab again to take the 360\u00b0 images that we hope to include in the virtual reality environment. After Christmas we will be recruiting student testers in order to carry out evaluation of the effect that virtual reality has on their learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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