This year’s VR Working Out Loud Week will run from 26 February to 4 March 2018. Participation is open to anyone who is working, playing or experimenting with Virtual Reality.
Insight into the current landscape of learning technologies in Australia, including virtual classrooms, e-learning, social learning tools, learning management systems, performance support tools, micro-learning, mobile learning and ‘other’ learning technologies such as VR, AR and AI
Something struck me during this year’s Virtual Reality Working Out Loud Week. Billed as an event for “anyone who is working with or experimenting with virtual reality, whether that be at home, at school or at work”, this was the second time I had run it. Again I was keen for our peers in L&D and other industries to share what they are doing with this emerging technology.
How does a virtual space, either coded simulations or detailed images, affect our feelings? Can we emotionally immerse? Let us consider the arguments. Learning which creates feeling is said to operate in the affective domain. The affective domain is the part of learning where we have emotional responses to the material and this helps cement recall. Recall is strongly linked to emotions in behaviourist thinking.