Evaluating the Role of Virtual Reality in the Education System

This report examines the impact of virtual reality (VR) in education, focusing on its merits and demerits. It explores how VR tools can enhance student engagement and participation while acknowledging the potential for distraction and the importance of imagination in learning. The report references studies and articles to support its arguments, discussing the role of VR in shaping the future of classrooms and the balance between technological advancements and conventional learning methods. It addresses the need to consider the impact of VR on students' perception and the potential for it to transform education into a mere process of information transfer. The analysis suggests that while VR offers innovative possibilities, educators must carefully consider its implementation to ensure that it complements rather than diminishes the core principles of education.

Merits and demerits of a Virtual Reality lab instead of a conventional classroom
Virtual and augmented reality has already made an entry in the mainframe and many teachers are
already utilizing virtual-reality tools to add a visual value in education (Jain, 2019). This fast
development has the power to change the face of the classrooms in the future. The positive and
negative impacts of this change over can be explained with the help of a hypothesis that goes as
under.
Virtual Reality tools can increase the presence and participation of the students in a classroom,
however, the stimulations associated with these tools can distract a student and hamper the
process of learning where imagination plays a pivotal role.
The relevance of the hypothesis
Most of the seasoned tourists don’t want to go for a virtual tour of the destination before visiting
it. According to them, this visit can hamper the intensity or the real experience that they want to
gain (Rogers, 2020). The same principle applies to the presence of virtual reality in the field of
education. Education teaches us to explore the world from various points of views, strong and
impressive impressions created by the virtual reality have this potential to bring down the
imaginative faculty of a student quite considerably. The educationalists need to think about the
importance of perception in the process of learning. Virtual reality tools can convert the
processes related to education into the exercise of information transfer. The exploration of the
hypothesis developed by has this scope to cover certain topics that can find a middle path
between technology and conventional methods of learning.

References
Jain, K. (2019). Role of AR/VR in the education system: How technology is shaping India's
learning space. India Today ,
https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/featurephilia/story/role-of-augmented-virtual-
reality-in-education-1417739-2018-12-26.
Rogers, S. (2020). How Virtual Reality Could Help The Travel & Tourism Industry In The
Aftermath Of The Coronavirus Outbreak . The Forbes ,
https://www.forbes.com/sites/solrogers/2020/03/18/virtual-reality-and-tourism-whats-
already-happening-is-it-the-future/#213026d328a6.