A virtual classroom for remote education

远程教育虚拟教室

• 批准号: 54615
• 金额: $ 3.44万
• 依托单位: VALKYRIE INDUSTRIES LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=54615
• 关键词: virtual; classroom; remote; education

Education has been severely disrupted by the current Covid-19 health crisis, with opportunity for direct student-teacher interaction limited. Current solutions to the problem include the use of corporate teleconferencing tools, which are not entirely appropriate for the task of educating minors. There are numerous privacy issues and it is difficult for teachers to directly interact with students, or to monitor their engagement and progress over the course of a lesson.Valkyrie Industries proposes a virtual classroom, a digital tool enabling teachers to provide interactive remote education. The classroom will mirror it's real world counterpart, providing a familiar environment for continued learning amongst Covid-19 disrupted schoolchildren and university students. It will provide all of the tools expected by teachers in a real teaching environment, and enable students to join using devices ranging from mobile and smart tv to VR-ready computers.Building on our expertise in natural, embodied interaction and years of developing virtual environments, Valkyrie Industries are creating a ubiquitous tool appropriate for teaching remotely. In the short-term, this would hugely benefit students whose education is currently on hold with fragmented government oversight on remote learning solutions. In the long-term it would provide a teaching resource that leverages the full potential of virtual learning, enhancing classrooms by offering students and distance learners access to group lessons anytime and anywhere. It can boost engagement, immersing teachers and students in new experiences and defying physical limitations with virtual trips into space, inside a virtual human body or exploring atoms.Ultimately, it could also leverage Valkyrie Industries' patented haptic technology to touch and feel the virtual, such as handling moon rocks, for a truly immersive learning experience. However, for the scope of this project we are focussing on the major issues of specificity and security that curtail the use of current available teleconferencing tools.Our virtual classroom will mirror the performance of a real classroom, enabling teachers to hold their own unique classes or full VR lectures. Virtual environments and objects help to simulate a classroom environment, improving learning retention and class interaction. Teachers will be able to gauge student engagement and to test their progression through mini quizzes, questions and built in monitoring. The simple act of looking at a student in a classroom improves how they will respond to the teacher; it is this embodiment that we intend to simulate.

当前的Covid-19健康危机严重扰乱了教育，师生直接互动的机会有限。目前解决这一问题的办法包括使用公司的电话会议工具，这些工具并不完全适合教育未成年人。有很多隐私问题，教师很难直接与学生互动，也很难监控他们在课堂上的参与度和进步。瓦尔基里工业公司提出了一种虚拟教室，一种使教师能够提供交互式远程教育的数字工具。教室将模仿现实世界的教室，为受Covid-19影响的小学生和大学生提供一个熟悉的环境，让他们继续学习。它将在真实的教学环境中提供教师期望的所有工具，并使学生能够使用从移动设备和智能电视到vr就绪的计算机等设备加入。建立在我们的专业知识在自然，具体的互动和多年的开发虚拟环境，瓦尔基里工业正在创建一个无处不在的工具适合远程教学。在短期内，这将极大地惠及那些目前因政府对远程学习解决方案的监管分散而教育被搁置的学生。从长远来看，它将提供一种充分利用虚拟学习潜力的教学资源，通过随时随地为学生和远程学习者提供小组课程来增强课堂。它可以提高参与度，让教师和学生沉浸在新的体验中，并通过虚拟的太空旅行、虚拟的人体内部或探索原子来打破物理限制。最终，它还可以利用瓦尔基里工业公司的专利触觉技术来触摸和感受虚拟，比如处理月球岩石，以获得真正沉浸式的学习体验。然而，对于这个项目的范围，我们将重点放在限制使用当前可用的电话会议工具的专用性和安全性的主要问题上。我们的虚拟课堂将反映真实课堂的表现，使教师能够举办自己独特的课程或完整的VR讲座。虚拟环境和对象有助于模拟课堂环境，提高学习记忆和课堂互动。教师将能够衡量学生的参与度，并通过小测验、问题和内置监控来测试他们的进步。看着教室里的学生这个简单的动作可以提高他们对老师的反应；我们要模拟的就是这个化身。