TY  - CONF
ID  - oro42340
UR  - http://oro.open.ac.uk/42340/
A1  - Tilling, Steve
A1  - Tudor, Ana-Despina
A1  - Kitchen, Becky
A1  - Minocha, Shailey
Y1  - 2017/04/21/
N2  - This workshop-session explored the use of Google Expeditions (GEs), virtual reality-based field trips, to support and encourage outdoor fieldwork and facilitate visualisation of processes and locations. Participants had the opportunity to trial GEs and were invited to discuss and evaluate the outcomes (particularly the educator’s perspective) of a project investigating the role of virtual reality in geography education.

We first showed several Expeditions to the educators, such as Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo or Borneo Rainforest: Plant Adaptations. We then invited participants to share their experience on teaching geography with a focus on inquiry-based learning. 

We asked educators to discuss:

a) their inquiry-based learning (IBL) practices in geography lessons and how they would use virtual reality for IBL in lessons;

b) discuss their IBL practices before, during and after a field trip and how they would use virtual reality to practice IBL for fieldwork.
KW  - 3D virtual environments; 3D virtual worlds; Google Expeditions; mobile virtual reality; technology-enabled learning; virtual field trips; VFTs; virtual reality
TI  - Investigating the role of virtual reality in geography via Google Expeditions
M2  - University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
AV  - public
EP  - 6
T2  - Geographical Association Annual Conference 2017
ER  -