Virtual objects in shared VR environments can serve as effective media for collaborative knowledge building among in-service teachers manipulating geometric shapes¶
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Currency · newest study 2023 · checked against its sources 2026-10-19 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person
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q2 i? Groups of in-service teachers collaboratively explored geometric conjectures in a shared VR environment, and virtual objects functioned as an effective medium for collaborative knowledge building. → Jacob Fortman 2023
Evidence¶
Jacob Fortman 2023¶
Jacob Fortman, Rebecca Quintana. (2023). Fostering collaborative and embodied learning with extended reality: Special issue introduction. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-023-09404-1
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The introduction's summary of the Huang, Walkington, and Nathan study reports that, as the study summary states, virtual objects can be "an effective media for collaborative knowledge building" when teachers manipulate shared shapes in a shared VR environment.
"Findings from this study suggest that virtual objects can be an effective media for collaborative knowledge building."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Body movements and positions focusing on virtual objects, and shifts away from or around them, signal key interactional collaborative events in shared VR — related
- Collaborative speech strongly co-occurs with actions on virtual objects and virtual hand gestures in shared VR geometry tasks — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Virtual objects serve as effective media for collaborative knowledge building in shared VR environments — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Embodied collaborative construction can build shared geometric reasoning — related
- Object manipulation in a visual representation significantly improves scores from post-test to retention test after two weeks of non-instruction — related
- Multi-modal representations created during collaboration act as metaphors that shape joint reasoning and meaning making — related
- Manipulating objects during learning improves comprehension, and virtual manipulation can be as effective as physical manipulation — related
- Physically or imaginatively manipulating objects during reading improves children's reading comprehension — related
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Virtual objects in shared VR environments can serve as effective media for collaborative knowledge building among in-service teachers manipulating geometric shapes |
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Virtual objects in shared VR environments can serve as effective media for collaborative knowledge building among in-service teachers manipulating geometric shapes |
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