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ERIC Number: EJ1424276
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-May
Pages: 25
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1360-2357
EISSN: EISSN-1573-7608
The Potential of Extended Reality in Rural Education's Future - Perspectives from Rural Educators
Xining Wang; Gareth W. Young; Muhammad Zahid Iqbal; Conor Mc Guckin
Education and Information Technologies, v29 n7 p8987-9011 2024
Technology-enhanced education can potentially enhance teaching and learning outcomes for rural educators since they face limited educational resources and low job satisfaction. Recently, there has been a surge in extended reality (XR) as an immersive learning technology to improve teaching and learning in rural areas, but without focusing on rural educators' perspectives. This study aims to bridge this gap by investigating rural educators' interactions with XR educational applications and exhibiting their insights on using XR education to improve education quality in rural areas. After educators' hands-on experiences in a pre-designed XR education workshop, qualitative data was collected from their discussions in focus groups. As a result, educators believed that XR could transform traditional educational practices and create opportunities for new patterns of rural education (e.g., public engagement with rurality and rural vocational education). Limitations include a lack of school infrastructure to apply XR and an absence of well-structured curriculum design to use XR in the classroom setting. We suggest that future studies explore the integration of effective XR practices into primary and elementary education in those areas with limited educational resources.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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