TY - GEN
T1 - Developing Virtual Reality Open Educational Resources in a Sino-Foreign Higher Education Institution
T2 - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2018
AU - Towey, Dave
AU - Walker, James
AU - Austin, Clayton
AU - Kwong, Chiew Foong
AU - Wei, Sherry
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/7/2
Y1 - 2018/7/2
N2 - Open educational resources (OERs) are teaching, learning, and research resources that have been made available such that they can be used, shared, and modified freely. Motivated by recent OER development successes, an interdisciplinary team at a Sino-foreign Higher Education Institution in China, University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), have been engaged in the creation of a new virtual reality (VR) OER, initially aimed at students and educators in the institution's Civil Engineering department. The VR OER centres around the creation of a virtual field trip (VFT), capturing knowledge and experience not often available to students. This paper examines the background and motivations to the project, outlining the strategies and cooperation so far employed, and explores the progress and challenges encountered. Anticipated further challenges, and potential mitigation, as the project continues are also discussed.
AB - Open educational resources (OERs) are teaching, learning, and research resources that have been made available such that they can be used, shared, and modified freely. Motivated by recent OER development successes, an interdisciplinary team at a Sino-foreign Higher Education Institution in China, University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), have been engaged in the creation of a new virtual reality (VR) OER, initially aimed at students and educators in the institution's Civil Engineering department. The VR OER centres around the creation of a virtual field trip (VFT), capturing knowledge and experience not often available to students. This paper examines the background and motivations to the project, outlining the strategies and cooperation so far employed, and explores the progress and challenges encountered. Anticipated further challenges, and potential mitigation, as the project continues are also discussed.
KW - Sino-foreign higher education
KW - higher education
KW - open educational resources (OERs)
KW - student experience
KW - student-centering
KW - virtual field trips (VFTs)
KW - virtual reality (VR)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85062078339&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TALE.2018.8615167
DO - 10.1109/TALE.2018.8615167
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85062078339
T3 - Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2018
SP - 416
EP - 422
BT - Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2018
A2 - Lee, Mark J.W.
A2 - Nikolic, Sasha
A2 - Ros, Montserrat
A2 - Shen, Jun
A2 - Lei, Leon C. U.
A2 - Wong, Gary K.W.
A2 - Venkatarayalu, Neelakantam
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 4 December 2018 through 7 December 2018
ER -
