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Are Students Ready to Be Immersed? Acceptance of Mobile Immersive Virtual Reality by Secondary Education Students

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As immersive virtual reality (iVR) is gaining popularity, interest from education and educational research is growing likewise. As such, it is of interest to investigate which factors thrive and inhibit acceptance of this iVR technology in education. In this study we investigated the perceptions of 2,640 Flemish secondary education students on iVR as an instructional tool. As a theoretical framework, we adopted the UTAUT2 model extended with the factor of personal innovativeness in the domain of information technology. Students watched a video with several examples of iVR educational experiences. Next, their perceptions on iVR as an instructional method were measured using an online survey. To test the several hypotheses, we applied general linear modelling. The results account for 50% of variance in behavioral intention to use. These findings help to understand which factors contribute to the acceptance of iVR in secondary education and might guide the design of evidence-informed implementation plans by school managers and teachers.

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The authors would like to thank all the students, their parents, school managers, and teachers for their willingness to collaborate in this study.

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  1. Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, Raghenoplein 21 bis, 2800, Mechelen, Belgium

    Carl Boel & Alexander Vanhulsel

  2. Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000, Ghent, Belgium

    Carl Boel, Tijs Rotsaert, Martin Valcke, Yves Rosseel & Tammy Schellens

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Boel, C., Rotsaert, T., Valcke, M., Rosseel, Y., Vanhulsel, A., Schellens, T. (2024). Are Students Ready to Be Immersed? Acceptance of Mobile Immersive Virtual Reality by Secondary Education Students. In: Bourguet, ML., Krüger, J.M., Pedrosa, D., Dengel, A., Peña-Rios, A., Richter, J. (eds) Immersive Learning Research Network. iLRN 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1904. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47328-9_6

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