The Use of Virtual Reality in the Countries of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI)

Future Internet Pub Date : 2024-07-13 DOI:10.3390/fi16070249
Álvaro Antón-Sancho, Pablo Fernández‐Arias, E. A. Ariza, Diego Vergara
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In recent years, virtual reality (VR) technologies have become one of the teaching tools with the greatest training potential in higher education. Thus, the study of factors that influence the adoption and valuation of VR by the educational agents involved is a fruitful line of research, because it can provide keys to promote its incorporation. This article compares the assessments of VR as a teaching technology in higher education given by professors from countries that are members of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) with those of professors from countries in the Latin American region that are not members of CABEI. For this purpose, a validated questionnaire on the perception of VR use was administered to a sample of 1246 professors from the entire Latin American region, and their responses were statistically analyzed. As a result, it was found that professors from CABEI countries give better ratings to the usability dimensions of VR and report a lower number of disadvantages in its use than professors from countries outside CABEI. However, the increase in the digital competence of professors in CABEI countries is more than twice as high as the increase in the valuation of VR. It follows that there is still much room for the integration of VR in higher education in CABEI countries. Furthermore, in CABEI countries there is a more pronounced gap between professors from private and public universities with respect to the above-mentioned ratings than in non-CABEI countries. As a consequence, some implications and suggestions derived from the results are reported.
虚拟现实技术在中美洲经济一体化银行(CABEI)成员国中的应用
近年来,虚拟现实(VR)技术已成为高等教育中最具培训潜力的教学工具之一。因此,对影响相关教育机构采用和评价虚拟现实技术的因素进行研究是一项富有成果的研究方向,因为它可以为促进虚拟现实技术的应用提供关键因素。本文比较了中美洲经济一体化银行(CABEI)成员国的教授和拉丁美洲地区非中美洲经济一体化银行成员国的教授对虚拟现实技术作为高等教育教学技术的评价。为此,对整个拉丁美洲地区的 1246 名教授进行了关于虚拟现实技术使用情况的有效问卷调查,并对他们的答复进行了统计分析。结果发现,与 CABEI 以外国家的教授相比,CABEI 国家的教授对 VR 的可用性给予了更高的评价,并报告了使用 VR 过程中较少的缺点。然而,CABEI 国家教授数字能力的提高幅度是 VR 评价提高幅度的两倍多。由此可见,CABEI 国家在将 VR 融入高等教育方面还有很大的空间。此外,与非 CABEI 国家相比,CABEI 国家的私立大学和公立大学教授在上述评价方面的差距更为明显。因此,报告了从结果中得出的一些影响和建议。
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