Educational Practice Using Projectile Motion VR Application

• Published in: 2020 18th International Conference on ICT and Knowledge Engineering (ICT&KE) pp. 1 - 7
• Main Authors: Fujii, Mitsuki, Onishi, Kensuke, Kitabayashi, Teruyuki
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 18-11-2020
• Subjects: Education; Entertainment industry; Internet; Neck; physics education; Projectiles; Smart phones; teaching material; Virtual reality
• ISSN: 2157-099X
• DOI: 10.1109/ICTKE50349.2020.9289906

In recent years, virtual reality (VR) has become a popular entertainment medium as well as being used for worker-based education. However, VR has not yet been widely applied to school education and the effects of VR on school education have not been assessed. This paper proposes a VR framework for teaching materials that could be introduced into school education and especially secondary education. A projectile motion VR application "Fly Ball" was developed and its effectiveness confirmed through several evaluation experiments with university students. Then, a "Fly Ball" class was presented in three high school classes, after which it was evaluated by the students using a questionnaire. The evaluation results give guidance as to the usefulness of the VR teaching materials and the differences between the classes.