Research Article

Use of VR Headsets in Education: A Systematic Review Study

Volume: 2 Number: 1 January 31, 2019
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Use of VR Headsets in Education: A Systematic Review Study

Abstract

In recent years, it can be said that the use of new virtual reality related technologies increased swiftly. Especially virtual reality headsets have become an important device in virtual reality and augmented reality applications. As a consequence of these developments, researchers started to investigate the use of virtual reality headsets in many fields. In this respect, the purpose of this study is to perform a systematic review with content analysis on the articles about the use of VR headsets in education in the Scopus database between 2014 and 2019. A total of 49 related article were found and examined to determine the major topics, research methods/models, most cited papers, data collection tools, participants and variables in these articles. Because no systematic review study has been conducted on this topic in literature, the study is considered to be important. As a result, it was found that the number of studies about the use of virtual reality headsets in education tends to increase by year. In addition, it was seen that quantitative methods as research methods, undergraduate students as participants, and pretest-posttests as data collection tools were the most favored ones. Besides, it was found that usability and experience were the most preferred dependent variables.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Studies on Education

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

January 31, 2019

Submission Date

January 26, 2019

Acceptance Date

January 31, 2019

Published in Issue

Year 2019 Volume: 2 Number: 1

APA
Çankaya, S. (2019). Use of VR Headsets in Education: A Systematic Review Study. Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2(1), 74-88. https://doi.org/10.31681/jetol.518275

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