Some posts about “VR”

Exploring using WondaVR to create a virtual exhibition space with students on the EDU61004 Media Making and Creativity module.

The MA Digital Literacies, Culture and Education has been working to integrate Virtual Reality content into our teaching, such as getting students to critically discuss 360° footage of Hillsborough Park during the pandemic, which Dr Becky Parry wrote about here. Now that the university is open again for face-to-face teaching, I arranged a session around my current VR research for the module "Digital Culture and Childhoods."

A-frame is a Javascript WebVR framework. Read how I've set up a development environment to create VR experiences

In my last blog I described the way 360 content can provide students with a distinct opportunity to experience learning spaces (an early childhood setting) and research data (an episode of play.) In this one, I am staying with a focus on play to share an account of a resource we created when faced with the realisation that we would not be able to take our students on a face to face visit to a local park.

When we first proposed to colleagues that we could use virtual reality in our higher education teaching, it is fair to say there was some healthy scepticism. Some colleagues had early experiences of VR headsets and worried about feeling sick. Others couldn’t see how it might relate to their work.

In the School of Education, we've started to explore the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in teaching and learning. Here are some examples.