PRELIMINARY EVALUATION IMMERSIVE TEACHING APPLICATION IN DISTANCE LEARNING DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

ABSTRACT

This study describes the design of a Virtual Reality (VR) application for distance learning purposes from the lecturer’s perspective during the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous research illustrated that virtual reality could be applied to the learning process in the classroom. Researchers used to make applications that can be used with the video conference platform, commonly used during a pandemic, to make it easier to reach students. The evaluation involved 18 faculty members in the Faculty of Computer Science to check the usefulness of each virtual reality function in two different scenarios, namely the teaching scenarios using controllers and hand tracking. The results showed significantly better results in virtual reality scenes where the controller was used for teaching scenarios. © 2022 ICIC International. All rights reserved.