Using virtual reality (VR) for teaching and learning in geography: fieldwork, analytical skills, and employability

This article outlines how Virtual Reality (VR) technologies, software and content can be used as a resource for teaching and learning in Geography. Drawing on the authors’ first-hand experiences of using VR for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, we explore firstly how VR can enhance the development of fieldwork observational techniques, knowledge and understanding of place, prior to entering the field. Secondly, we show how VR can be used to enable students to develop critical analytical skills in relation to emergent visual technologies and the wider implications VR has for the representation of people, places and landscapes. Finally, the article will attend to the ways VR and Augmented Reality (AR) – due to its growing industrial application – can offer important opportunities for the development of unique practical employability skills which can be applied to the geovisualization of data and environments enhancing graduate career prospects.

Citation

Bos, D., Miller, S., & Bull, E. (2022). Using virtual reality (VR) for teaching and learning in geography: Fieldwork, analytical skills, and employability. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 46(3), 479-488. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2021.1901867

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Journal

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10034/626538

DOI

10.1080/03098265.2021.1901867

Type

Article

Description

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Geography in Higher Education on 22 March 2021, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2021.1901867

ISSN

0309-8265

EISSN

1466-1845

Additional Links

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03098265.2021.1901867