Developing Immersion Virtual Reality for Supporting the Students to Learn Concepts of Starry Sky Unit

摘要

The students often encounter many learning dilemma in astronomy concepts. Due to its immersion and situated cognition in the learning process, VR technology has a promising potential for reducing science misconception from macro view to micro view. The purpose of this study was to develop an immersion VR for supporting the learners to learn basic astronomy concepts in elementary school. This study employed HTC vive as immersive head-mounted VR devices, and adopted ADDIE model to develop VR learning system of virtual astronomy museum. After the system was finished, an initial evaluation was conducted by inviting the elementary school's students to test and experts to assess it suitability in science learning. The results revealed that this system is suitable for applying in learning of Starry Sky Unit if the classroom equipped with enough HTC vive devices. In the future, this study will launch a learning experiment in an elementary school for assessing its effectiveness including learning achievement and attitudes.