Use AI-enabled immersive virtual environments to enrich project-based learning in vocational design education¶

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Description¶

The article recommends integrating the advantages of an AI-enabled immersive virtual environment with the features of project-based learning, "including inquiry, collaboration, and active participation," to advance design creativity among vocational students. The strategy pairs immersive, intelligent, feedback-rich technology with PBL's collaborative inquiry structure.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• An AI-enabled immersive virtual environment with stereoscopic immersion, embodied engagement, intelligent interaction, and real-time feedback

Constraints¶

• Evidence to date comes from a single vocational college course (Public Space Interior Design) evaluated with a two-group quasi-experiment

Target Learners¶

• vocational college students

Target Learning Goals¶

• design creativity
• engagement
• motivation

Affordances¶

• Ai Ive Pbl Model Four Dimensions

Related Strategies¶

• Virtual Reality (VR) Training
• Use advanced immersive learning technologies as research and learning tools to deliver developmentally-appropriate metacognitive scaffolding

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Jin, S., Zhong, Z., Cao, X., & Zhang, W. (2026). Cultivating design creativity of vocational students: A model of project-based learning in AI-enabled immersive virtual environments. Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 22, 029. https://doi.org/10.58459/rptel.2027.22029