Dr. Xu and TELL members presenting at AECT 2021

Dr. Xu presented the work of TELL Research Lab at the Mizzou Education Research Day 2021.

Dr. Xu is chairing the Design and Technology Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American Educational Research Association for the term 2021-2022. Know more from here.

Dr. Xu is to teach a new course about how virtual reality (VR) can help your instructional design (ID) skills. This course will concentrate on establishing your own VR instructional environment applying ID theories and hands-on technical skills including 3D modeling and simple scripting in VR.

Dr. Xu introduced some of his research projects that leverage the advantages of virtual reality technologies to help people learn, train, and socialize. He focuses primarily on embodied interactions and learning, immersive virtual learning environments.

Below is the link to the video recording of the presentation:

https://missouri.app.box.com/s/lj258zoe36rigolkw68qqw9lit0b05po

Dr. Xu will introduce some of his research projects that leverage the advantages of virtual reality technologies to help people learn, train, and socialize. He focuses primarily on embodied interactions and learning, immersive virtual learning environments.

Tuesday, April 20th

Via Zoom – Registration Required

11:00AM-12:00PM

Register Here

Come and join the discussion on virtual reality and gaming highlighting the Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration of Mizzou Ed Faculty. TELL director, SISLT’s Dr. Xu, together with SPED’s Janine Stichter and LTC’s Sam von Gillern, will discuss their research in VR and game-related topics. Please make plans to attend! Click here to register

In this study, we report an immersive virtual reality lab (iVRLab) training environment that offers college students an immersive and embodied experience in engineering lab work. Fourteen college students participate in the lab training and study results reveal positive learning effects, confidence levels, and embodied experiences. Such results are examined and discussed through the lenses of cognitive load and embodied learning theories. The study offers reference for peer researchers and practitioners for the design and implementation of similar immersive VR systems. More results will be reported during the conference.

Link to the Presentation:

https://aera21-aera.ipostersessions.com/default.aspx?s=BF-53-82-23-30-30-7E-79-C2-99-35-79-30-1F-C4-3E&guestview=true

On Oct 4, 2020, Dr. Xinhao Xu and Ms. Fan Yu‘s discussion on the VRO2 preliminary results were shared on The Versatilist Podcast. This is an official Podcast of The Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) that aims to share and discuss the latest news in immersive learning.

During the Podcast, information about the iSchool, background and purpose of the research project, the virtual environment and activities created for the project, and more importantly, the design of the project,  and the preliminary results regarding pre and post-surveys, participants’ behaviors, and details of the follow-up interview with the participants were shared. Click the link below and find out more: Online Orientation in Virtual Reality for Graduate Students: A Discussion of the Preliminary Results

We would like to give our special thanks to The Versatilist and iLRN for inviting our researchers to be the guests in the Podcast. More information about them? Click below:

The Versatillist Podcast Website

iLRN (Immersive Learning Research Network)

We created a 3D Virtual Environment for celebrating the College of Education class of 2020 on May, 15.

Watch the video to see more details：

https://www.facebook.com/mizzoueducation/videos/244944256776559/