TY - GEN
T1 - Perceived Effects of Mixed Reality in Distance Learning for the Mining Education Sector
AU - Thurner, Stefan
AU - Schön, Sandra
AU - Ebner, Martin
AU - Leitner, Philipp
AU - Daling, Lea
PY - 2023/6/9
Y1 - 2023/6/9
N2 - Mixed reality as a tool for teaching has made only limited use of its possibilities so far. However, it brings a plethora of new opportunities, with benefits ranging from interactivity to more vividness. These factors could improve numerous areas of teaching. The mining sector would benefit from new methods combined with mixed reality especially. Therefore, the MiReBooks project was launched: Various applications have been developed that can vividly present content using 3D models, virtual field trips and other methods. To verify and further improve these tools, an evaluation phase was conducted. During two test lectures in distance learning, a total of 23 participants answered a posttest questionnaire. The results showed that the teaching quality could be maintained well by the mixed reality application even in distance learning. Students were satisfied with the methods used, attributed good usability to the tool, and felt integrated into the classroom. At the same time, the team realized that the quality of the lesson depends heavily on the quality of the materials and the expertise of the lecturer. It also became clear that other factors, such as the technical infrastructure and support, are particularly important in this format.
AB - Mixed reality as a tool for teaching has made only limited use of its possibilities so far. However, it brings a plethora of new opportunities, with benefits ranging from interactivity to more vividness. These factors could improve numerous areas of teaching. The mining sector would benefit from new methods combined with mixed reality especially. Therefore, the MiReBooks project was launched: Various applications have been developed that can vividly present content using 3D models, virtual field trips and other methods. To verify and further improve these tools, an evaluation phase was conducted. During two test lectures in distance learning, a total of 23 participants answered a posttest questionnaire. The results showed that the teaching quality could be maintained well by the mixed reality application even in distance learning. Students were satisfied with the methods used, attributed good usability to the tool, and felt integrated into the classroom. At the same time, the team realized that the quality of the lesson depends heavily on the quality of the materials and the expertise of the lecturer. It also became clear that other factors, such as the technical infrastructure and support, are particularly important in this format.
KW - Evaluation for Mixed Reality
KW - Evaluation Methods First Section
KW - Mixed Reality
KW - User Evaluation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85173031416&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-34550-0_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-34550-0_15
M3 - Conference paper
SN - 978-3-031-34549-4
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 212
EP - 226
BT - Learning and Collaboration Technologies
A2 - Zaphiris, Panayiotis
A2 - Ioannou, Andri
A2 - Ioannou, Andri
PB - Springer Nature Switzerland AG
CY - Cham
T2 - 10th Learning and Collaboration Technologies, held as part of HCI 2023
Y2 - 23 July 2023 through 28 July 2023
ER -
