Ioana Mudure-Iacob, Alexandra Cotoc, A. Hopârtean, Veronica-Diana Micle, D. Andronache
{"title":"Autonomous Digital Language Learning in Higher Education. The DIAL4U Erasmus+Project","authors":"Ioana Mudure-Iacob, Alexandra Cotoc, A. Hopârtean, Veronica-Diana Micle, D. Andronache","doi":"10.58503/icvl-v17y202211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58503/icvl-v17y202211","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims at documenting some important aspects related to the process of teaching foreign languages in an online/hybrid university environment in Romania. The focus is on describing the online reality of foreign language instruction in Romania, sharing information on a series of observed challenges that language instructors and learners have had/need to focus on, and comparing and contrasting analysis of a selection of answers provided by teachers in Higher Education (HE) on various aspects connected to digital language instruction. The paper draws on theoretical research in the field of online/hybrid education, using the DIAL4U (Digital pedagogy to develop Autonomy, mediate and certify Lifewide and Lifelong Language Learning for (European) Universities) project to collect and analyse relevant data regarding the language instructors’ perception on the use of digital apps and tools in the teaching process. Emphasis is also placed on how teachers acknowledge and use metacognitive and face management strategies as instruments of digital pedagogy. The research was based on a questionnaire which provided valuable qualitative and quantitative data. The results focus on the development of digital skills preand post-pandemic and preferences for certain resources, tools and apps, while also correlating these tendencies with metacognitive and pragmatic politeness strategies. The potential outcomes would be to identify creative solutions and design open educational resources to effectively teach online/hybrid language classes.","PeriodicalId":33466,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Virtual Reality","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80175211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Following the Line from Blocks Programming to Robotics","authors":"A. Fortis, Teodor-Florin Fortiş","doi":"10.58503/icvl-v17y202221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58503/icvl-v17y202221","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33466,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Virtual Reality","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78671118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"e-Dubba: a Learning Platform for Sumerian Exposing Cuneiform Signs as Text","authors":"Louis Lecailliez","doi":"10.58503/icvl-v17y202209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58503/icvl-v17y202209","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33466,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Virtual Reality","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81793716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Trends of Education after COVID-19","authors":"Dineva Snejana","doi":"10.58503/icvl-v17y202202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58503/icvl-v17y202202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33466,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Virtual Reality","volume":"226 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90060421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social networks-based alt-metrics and the unethical use of AI","authors":"E. Ciuperca, Alexandru Stanciu","doi":"10.58503/icvl-v17y202214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58503/icvl-v17y202214","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33466,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Virtual Reality","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79010551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applied learning of artificial intelligence techniques by using the Gazebo simulator and Turtlebot3 multi-robot system","authors":"Alexandru-Călin Stan, M. Oprea","doi":"10.58503/icvl-v17y202210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58503/icvl-v17y202210","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33466,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Virtual Reality","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78250653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Leblanc, S. Richir, Pierre-Stuart Rostain, Thierry Benoist, S. Bouchard, R. Cooney, Daniel Dyboski-Bryant, Kylie Savage, Silke Schmidt, Mariia Tintul
{"title":"GUARDIANS & METANAUTS: Shaping the Reality of Future Humanity","authors":"M. Leblanc, S. Richir, Pierre-Stuart Rostain, Thierry Benoist, S. Bouchard, R. Cooney, Daniel Dyboski-Bryant, Kylie Savage, Silke Schmidt, Mariia Tintul","doi":"10.20870/ijvr.2022.1.1.7103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20870/ijvr.2022.1.1.7103","url":null,"abstract":"For over 20 years, Laval Virtual has been identifying the latest XR trends and leading a growing international community operating in all sectors of activity. In 2016, as an international XR facilitator, Laval Virtual designed the Visionaries Think Tank: a 2-days exclusive prospective workshop for Scientists, Academics, Investors, Authors, Philosophers, Law Makers, Influencers, and/or Industrials from all over the world. The aim? Identify early signals of XR technology advancements over the next ten years and their impacts. \u0000This report provides the individual thoughts of each visionary and the common vision resulting from the Visionaries Think Tank 2022.","PeriodicalId":33466,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Virtual Reality","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48938381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can I trust my ears in VR? Head-related transfer functions and valuation methods with descriptive attributes in virtual reality","authors":"Claudia Jenny, Christoph Reuter","doi":"10.20870/ijvr.2021.21.2.4831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20870/ijvr.2021.21.2.4831","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we present the current state of the art in binaural audio with the focus on head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) and valuation methods of virtual acoustics with descriptive attributes. This combination provides a methodology, which delivers the basis for research studies in virtual reality (VR) on individual and non-individual head-related transfer functions. Based on the largely explored localization perception of static audio signals, this review offers an overview of the directional hearing during head and sound source movement and multimodality in audiovisual virtual environments. Perceptual quality characteristics provide evaluation methods from which future HRTF VR experiments and virtual environments studies on binaural acoustics could benefit.","PeriodicalId":33466,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Virtual Reality","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44935105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surface structure characterization of plasma facing materials with impact-collision ion scattering spectroscopy.","authors":"Chun-Shang Wong, J. Whaley, R. Kolasinski","doi":"10.2172/1888643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2172/1888643","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33466,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Virtual Reality","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80436308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}