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Research priorities in immersive learning technology: the perspectives of the iLRN community

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This paper presents the perspectives of the immersive learning research network community on the relevance of various challenges to the adoption of immersive learning technology, along three dimensions: access, content production, and deployment. Using a previously validated questionnaire, we surveyed this community of 622 researchers and practitioners during the summer of 2018, attaining 54 responses. By ranking the challenges individually and within each dimension, the results point towards higher relevance being placed on aspects that link immersive environments with learning management systems and pedagogical tasks, alongside aspects that empower non-technical users (educational actors) to produce interactive stories, objects, and characters.

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  1. http://wiki.secondlife.com/w/index.php?title=Holodeck&oldid=28527.

  2. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/products/search?search[keywords]=holodeck.

  3. https://www.oblong.com/mezzanine.

  4. https://immersivelrn.org/past-events/.

  5. https://immersivelrn.org/about-us/people/.

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The work presented herein has been partially funded under the European H2020 program H2020-ICT-2015, BEACONING project, Grant Agreement No. 687676.

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  1. INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal

    Leonel Morgado, Henrique Mamede & Teresa Oliveira

  2. Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal

    Horácio Gaspar, Leonel Morgado & Henrique Mamede

  3. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Baltasar Manjón

  4. Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

    Christian Gütl

  5. Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia

    Christian Gütl

  6. Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Horácio Gaspar

  7. CEAUL-Centro de Estatística e Aplicações da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Teresa Oliveira

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Gaspar, H., Morgado, L., Mamede, H. et al. Research priorities in immersive learning technology: the perspectives of the iLRN community. Virtual Reality 24, 319–341 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-019-00393-x

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