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Virtual Reality and Education

Virtual Reality (VR), a new computer technology, has incredible potential in the education field. The reason for this assertion is that education is a field that requires the students to understand complex data, particularly in the study of science (see "Why is science hard to learn?" by Millar) and VR makes that task easier. VR presents information in a 3-dimensional form with the participant viewing the world from inside the world (an immersed viewpoint) with the ability to interact with the information or world. People can enter a VR world that is already created or build their own. VR’s style of presentation mimics the ways that we, as humans, have learned to interact with our physical world. The requirement of learning abstract concepts (such as written language or jargon of a particular field) in order to understand data is dramatically reduced. For example, a chemistry world can show participants how electrons hover around a nucleus depending on the amount of energy involved. The abstractness of the subject would not be eliminated, but metaphors could be employed that were based solidly in reality. For instance, in the electron world the color of the world could represent the amount of energy in the system with red representing more energy than blue. For the students, they would be able to relate to hot things looking red and cold things looking blue without the concept of "joules increasing" getting in the way.