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In recent years, immersive interactive technologies are becoming more and more mature. A large number of schools actively carry out virtual experimental teaching and establish virtual laboratories. As a kind of immersive interactive technology, virtual reality technology is attracting increasing attention in education. This paper describes the characteristics of immersive VR, hardware and software types, summarizes the different forms of VR used in teaching and discusses the principles of biological virtual experiment construction in other research. Taking the teaching content of ‘structure of eyeball’ in middle school biology textbook as a case, this research designs and develops a virtual experiment courseware - Miraculous eyeball. The research suggests that to construct outstanding teaching experiments of VR not only needs mature equipment and technologies but also requires a combination of decent teaching theories and tactics.
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This research is supported by the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation Project “Research on Deep Aggregation and Personalized Service Mechanism of Web Learning Resources based on Semantic” (No.71704062), Hubei Province Technology Innovation special projects “Key technologies and demonstration applications of Internet + Precision Education” (No.2017ACA105) and Ministry of Education - China Mobile Research Fund 2017 Annual Project “Research and pilot of regional teaching and research mode supported by information technology”(No.MCM20170502).
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Liu, Q., Yu, S., Lin, L., Xu, S., Wu, L. (2018). Design and Implementation of an Immersive Virtual Reality Biological Courseware—Miraculous Eyeball. In: Cheung, S., Kwok, Lf., Kubota, K., Lee, LK., Tokito, J. (eds) Blended Learning. Enhancing Learning Success. ICBL 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10949. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94505-7_13
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