Using mixed reality (XR) immersive learning to enhance environmental education

IF 1.7 4区教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Journal of Environmental Education Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/00958964.2022.2152410

C. Aguayo, C. Eames

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Abstract

Abstract Mixed reality (XR) environments combining real-to-virtual immersive experiences provide unprecedented potential for reframing educational pedagogy and practice. XR environments provide scaffolded learning points accommodating individual needs, while enhancing sensorial and embodied experiences. XR environments can facilitate self-determined (heutagogical) experience-based learning and esthetic visualization of wicked problems, making complex knowledge more accessible. Here we report on a study exploring the design of mobile learning with education outside the classroom (EOTC), heutagogy, and free-choice learning to enhance marine ecological literacy, based on a bring your own device (BYOD) XR intervention at a marine educational center in Aotearoa New Zealand. Findings indicate that XR affordances can enhance the understanding of complex marine conservation science, facilitating ecological literacy knowledge, attitudes and behavior change. Implications include pedagogical rethinking of EOTC with self-determined mobile learning; haptic, sensorial and embodied XR design considerations for environmental education; and epistemological speculation on learning phenomena in real-to-virtual immersive environments.

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利用混合现实(XR)沉浸式学习加强环境教育

摘要将真实与虚拟沉浸式体验相结合的混合现实（XR）环境为重新构建教育教学法和实践提供了前所未有的潜力。XR环境提供了适合个人需求的脚手架式学习点，同时增强了感官和具体体验。XR环境可以促进基于自主（heutagogical）经验的学习和邪恶问题的审美可视化，使复杂的知识更容易获得。在这里，我们报道了一项研究，该研究探索了基于新西兰奥特亚海洋教育中心的自带设备（BYOD）XR干预，通过课堂外教育（EOTC）、heutagogy和自由选择学习来提高海洋生态素养的移动学习设计。研究结果表明，XR可供性可以增强对复杂海洋保护科学的理解，促进生态素养知识、态度和行为的改变。影响包括通过自主移动学习对EOTC进行教学反思；用于环境教育的触觉、感觉和具体XR设计考虑；以及对真实到虚拟沉浸式环境中的学习现象的认识论推测。

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6.20

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期刊介绍： Any educator in the environmental field will find The Journal of Environmental Education indispensable. Based on recent research in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, the journal details how best to present environmental issues and how to evaluate programs already in place for primary through university level and adult students. University researchers, park and recreation administrators, and teachers from the United States and abroad provide new analyses of the instruction, theory, methods, and practices of environmental communication and education in peer-reviewed articles. Reviews of the most recent books, textbooks, videos, and other educational materials by experts in the field appear regularly.