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Delivering Engaging Curricular Lessons – A Case of Mixed Reality Technology in Education

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Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, 13th International Conference (MIS4TEL 2023)

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Abstract

Student engagement is a fundamental construct that supports learning. As immersive technologies develop, their implementation in educational contexts grows, for instance, through the deployment of mixed reality (MR) environments. This forges the need to explore the strategies that teachers use to deliver their lessons in order to increase student engagement in immersive learning spaces. Therefore, this paper explores teachers’ perspectives on implementing a lesson within an MR context in which a remote student participates as a hologram. For this, a case study was carried out using an in-house-built teleimmersive platform prototype deployed at a Finnish primary school, where three 5th grade students (11–12 years old) and three teachers participated. Here we present the teachers’ perspectives in terms of the pedagogical, technological, and student engagement standpoints in relation to delivering an engaging lesson in an MR context. Furthermore, we discuss the affordances that MR technology should offer to support teachers in delivering engaging lessons to their students, as well as several teacher strategies for delivering engaging lessons within MR contexts. This work contributes to the pedagogically sound implementation of immersive technologies in education.

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The project is funded by the Academy of Finland grant number 343364, with additional funding by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

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  1. University of Eastern Finland, Yliopistokatu 7, 80101, Joensuu, Finland

    Calkin Suero Montero

  2. University of Turku, Agora 4F, 20014, Turku, Finland

    Tomi Suovuo, Sebastian Hahta, Erkki Rötkönen & Erkki Sutinen

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  1. Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

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  2. University of Greenwich, London, UK

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  3. Didactics,Organization & Research Method, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

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  4. Facultad de Educación, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

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  9. Dept Life, Health & Envtl Sci, University of L’Aquila, L'AQUILA, L'Aquila, Italy

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Montero, C.S., Suovuo, T., Hahta, S., Rötkönen, E., Sutinen, E. (2023). Delivering Engaging Curricular Lessons – A Case of Mixed Reality Technology in Education. In: Milrad, M., et al. Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, 13th International Conference. MIS4TEL 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 764. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41226-4_18

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