The use of Virtual Reality (VR) in a variety of professional, military, governmental, and educational fields has continued to expand over the past several decades, and the recent Covid-19 pandemic has brought attention to this field. This study surveys 154 college students over 23 questions that include various demographics that can be used to look for discriminators, multiple-choice VR-related questions, as well as a few free-form questions about use of VR in learning environments. The students’ experience with, interest in, and thoughts on how to best use VR vary considerably. The Covid-19 pandemic is found to have limited impact thus far in terms of VR use, but the interest in using VR in schools since then has generally increased quite a bit. Commitment to invest in VR were it to be expanded and provide continual feedback varies quite a bit as well but is strong. A statistical 2 analysis shows that, at a high confidence level, males generally are more experienced with VR in general, have a greater interest in seeing VR implemented further, and are more committed to radical changes in educational methodology than females are. In addition, it is found that Hispanics/Latinos, Black / African Americans, Pacific Islanders, and those of mixed race are more inclined to provide continual feedback as regards the implementation of VR in the school curriculum than (non-Hispanic) White and Asian people are.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:pacific.edu/oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:uop_etds-4825 |
| Date | 01 January 2022 |
| Creators | Lal, Amit |
| Publisher | Scholarly Commons |
| Source Sets | University of the Pacific |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations |
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