%0 Conference Paper %1 ripka2020preservice %A Ripka, Gabriela %A Grafe, Silke %A Latoschik, Marc Erich %B SITE Interactive Conference %D 2020 %E Langran, Elizabeth %I Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) %K InitialTeacherEducation MediaPedagogicalCompetencies Ripka SocialVR TPACK ViLeArn %P 549--562 %T Preservice Teachers' encounter with Social VR – Exploring Virtual Teaching and Learning Processes in Initial Teacher Education %U https://downloads.hci.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/2020-site-preservice-teacher-svr.pdf %X With 21st century challenges ahead, higher education teaching and learning need new pedagogical concepts. Technologies like social VR enable student-centered, action-oriented, and situated learning. This paper presents findings of the pedagogical implementation of a distributed social VR prototype, a fully immersive VR learning environment, into an Initial Teacher Education program in Germany. The exploratory study addressed the following research questions: 1) How do preservice teachers perceive teaching and learning activities in fully immersive VR and 2) how should teaching and learning processes using social VR in Teacher Education be designed? It followed a design-based research approach. The pedagogical concept for teaching and learning in social VR was based on principles of action-orientation. A convenience sample of three groups of five students each took part in a 90-minute teaching and learning scenario using a fully immersive VR learning environment. During these seminar units, students engaged in qualitative group interviews and shared their perception of the action-oriented teaching and learning activities in VR. The results showed that preservice teachers had the feeling of being less distracted in social VR. Additionally, during group activities, missing social and behavioral cues made communication procedures more challenging for participants. However, some participants noticed a stronger sense of community while collaborating with others.

@inproceedings{ripka2020preservice, abstract = {With 21st century challenges ahead, higher education teaching and learning need new pedagogical concepts. Technologies like social VR enable student-centered, action-oriented, and situated learning. This paper presents findings of the pedagogical implementation of a distributed social VR prototype, a fully immersive VR learning environment, into an Initial Teacher Education program in Germany. The exploratory study addressed the following research questions: 1) How do preservice teachers perceive teaching and learning activities in fully immersive VR and 2) how should teaching and learning processes using social VR in Teacher Education be designed? It followed a design-based research approach. The pedagogical concept for teaching and learning in social VR was based on principles of action-orientation. A convenience sample of three groups of five students each took part in a 90-minute teaching and learning scenario using a fully immersive VR learning environment. During these seminar units, students engaged in qualitative group interviews and shared their perception of the action-oriented teaching and learning activities in VR. The results showed that preservice teachers had the feeling of being less distracted in social VR. Additionally, during group activities, missing social and behavioral cues made communication procedures more challenging for participants. However, some participants noticed a stronger sense of community while collaborating with others.}, added-at = {2021-11-08T10:14:26.000+0100}, author = {Ripka, Gabriela and Grafe, Silke and Latoschik, Marc Erich}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23a0295cc174d771078e5b87d16f65bda/gabrielaripka}, booktitle = {SITE Interactive Conference}, editor = {Langran, Elizabeth}, interhash = {9760808b231606374379a81860a156af}, intrahash = {3a0295cc174d771078e5b87d16f65bda}, keywords = {InitialTeacherEducation MediaPedagogicalCompetencies Ripka SocialVR TPACK ViLeArn}, pages = {549--562}, publisher = {Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)}, timestamp = {2021-11-08T10:22:57.000+0100}, title = {Preservice Teachers' encounter with Social VR – Exploring Virtual Teaching and Learning Processes in Initial Teacher Education}, url = {https://downloads.hci.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/2020-site-preservice-teacher-svr.pdf}, year = 2020 }