By Glen O’Grady, Frederick Chew and Craig Gall, Australian National University Welcome to Day Five of the course. This Will Revolutionize Education – (while we don’t agree with everything on this video it does warn us against the hype about technology and education) Perhaps many of you have been waiting […]
By Glen O’Grady, Frederick Chew and Craig Gall Australian National University Today let’s start by taking a step back from VR to look at the importance of empathy and embodiment for learning. Why empathy is important in learning? It is widely understood that we learn by constructing knowledge and meaning […]
By Glen O’Grady, Frederick Chew and Craig Gall, Australian National University Yesterday we invited you to observe some VR experiences and the effect it had upon the user of the technology and we suggested the impact is related to the concepts of immersion and presence. Immersion and presence are often […]
By Dr Glen O’Grady, Frederick Chew and Craig Gall, Australian National University What constitutes a VR Experience? Before we jump into exploring what constitutes a virtual reality (VR) experience, let’s briefly explore some underpinning philosophical questions. In the popular movie “Inception” the protagonist manipulates a person’s thinking through dreams, he […]
By Dr Glen O’Grady, Frederick Chew and Craig Gall, Australian National University “What is it like to walk in someone else’s shoes? Books allow us to imagine it, and movies allow us to see it, but VR is the first medium that actually allows us to experience it.” NICK MOKEY, […]