Media Writing: Virtual Reality in Education
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Running head: MEDIA WRITINGMedia Writing: Virtual Reality in EducationName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor’s Note:
1MEDIA WRITINGVirtual Reality in EducationVirtual reality or VR is the computer generated scenario, which eventually simulatesthe experience via perception and senses. The environment is similar to the real world andthus creating a specific experience that is not at all possible for the physical reality (Bioccaand Levy 2013). The augmented reality system is considered as the virtual reality form,which layers the virtual information on the live camera feed through any smart phone ortablet by providing the user with the capability for viewing the three dimensional images. Therecent technology of virtual reality utilizes the headsets of virtual reality or the multiprojected environments. In education sector, this virtual reality has taken its field. Thefollowing media article outlines a brief discussion on the virtual reality in education. Thereare various aspects of virtual education in education sector (Earnshaw 2014). This article willbe focusing on the benefits of virtual reality that are provided to the students. Moreover, dueto the growing overtime of virtual reality, there is a futuristic way to study. Virtual reality has undertaken a significant place in the education sector. It helps orrather enables the student in finding out, exploring and finally building their own language.With the help of this virtual reality, any student can easily manipulate the target virtually forthe purpose of analyzing or studying the subject (Wexelblat 2014). A simple interface witheasier comprehension helps the student in getting easier towards the concepts or theoriesregarding Regular Expressions, Automatons Minimization and Automatons. The target audience is the students, teachers or lecturers, parents and schools oruniversities. Various people were interviewed in the process. The name of the teacher is MissPuteri Sofia. As per Miss Puteri Sofia, there are various sparks in using VR in the educationsector (“Miss Puteri Sofia”). The most significant benefits of this virtual reality that thestudents would get are that the students would be gaining active experience and not passive
2MEDIA WRITINGexperiences. Moreover, the process of providing lectures to the students would be mucheasier for the lecturers with the help of VR. Another interesting fact was known from theinterview. The process is extremely simple and does not incur any type of complexity.According to her, when she took the classes, all the students were very excited (“Miss PuteriSofia”). Since, she is a law school teacher, she was also aware to maintain all the rules andregulations. The next interview conducted was of the student of Miss Puteri, Sherly. As per MissPuteri’s Student, she was extremely excited when VR was used in classes as she thought thatshe would get to know something within the class. Since, she was the student; her reactionwas the most important in this experiment (“Miss Puteri’s Student”). According to her, themost significant benefit that she got from the VR technology is the immediate engagementthat is useful in the present world for bringing attentiveness in class. The third interview that was conducted for the VR technology was for the VReducation organization, namely, Giotech. It is located in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. After theinterview, few doubts were cleared. The most significant functionality of virtual reality ineducation is that it is suited to each and every type of learning style (Gioitech). The mostsignificant example of this learning style is the visual learning. This organization evenmentioned about the future of virtual reality and how it is growing overtime. It is consideredas one of the most effective technologies in modern education sector. The idea of virtual reality came into the domain of education for the vast uses andfunctionalities of this particular technology (Minocha and Tudor 2017). The variousadvantages of the virtual reality or VR in education mainly include that immersive experiencerefer to zero distractions and thus could be easily utilized by the teachers to provide propereducation. Moreover, virtual reality also helps to understand the complicated concepts or
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