Situated learning in social virtual reality in teacher training

The cooperative eTeach impulse project ‘Situated learning in social virtual reality in teacher training’ between the TU Ilmenau and the University of Erfurt is affiliated to the eduroom media education workshop. Closely linked to the eduroom's conceptual orientation of providing educational spaces to promote media and digitality-related skills, the aim of the eTeach impulse project is to create realistic practice scenarios in the virtual classroom for student teachers based on virtual reality technology during the one-year term. The cooperative eTeach impulse project ‘Situated learning in social virtual reality in teacher training’ between the TU Ilmenau and the University of Erfurt is affiliated to the media education workshop eduroom. Closely linked to the eduroom's conceptual orientation of providing educational spaces to promote media and digitality-related skills, the aim of the eTeach impulse project is to create realistic practice scenarios in the virtual classroom for student teachers based on virtual reality technology during the one-year term.

Duration
06/2024 - 05/2025

Funding
eTeach-Netzwerk Thüringen :
62 000 Euro

Project management

Professor Ulf Sauerbrey
Holder of the professorship for Childhood and Youth in Digital Educational Environments (Faculty of Education)
+49 361 737-2121

Team

Thorsten Ziegler

Co-operation partner:

The thematic focus here is on dealing with teaching disruptions and creating immersive and authentic teaching simulations in which student teachers can interact with virtual pupils in the form of 3D bots in a protected environment.

The exercise scenarios are to be practically tested and further developed with students as a situated learning component and evaluated as innovative tools for the training of prospective teachers. Against the background of an examination of digitalisation and mediatisation in educational institutions, the project aims to enable prospective teachers to act competently with media, to reduce reservations about the use of media through positive experiences and the experience of competence and to explore the possibilities and limits of immersive learning environments in teacher training. The focus is on reflecting on pedagogical thinking and action with the help of digital tools.

Further information on the project can be found on the project website on the pages of the Faculty of Education at the University of Erfurt.

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Educational research Teacher education

Cooperation partner

TU Ilmenau

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