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Transactions on Edutainment IV pp 79–90Cite as

Learning with Virtual Reality: Its Effects on Students with Different Learning Styles

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This study aims to investigate the effects of a virtual reality (VR)-based learning environment on learners with different learning styles. The learning outcomes were measured cognitively through academic performance, and affectively through perceived learning effectiveness and satisfaction. A pretest-posttest design was employed for this study. A total of 232 students from four randomly selected co-education secondary schools in a city of East Malaysia participated in this study. There was no significant difference in the cognitive and affective learning outcomes for students with different learning styles in the VR-based learning environment. This shows that the VR-based learning environment offers promise in accommodating individual differences pertaining to learning styles.

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  1. School of Information Technology, Murdoch University, South Street Campus, Murdoch, Western Australia, 6150

    Elinda Ai-Lim Lee, Kok Wai Wong & Chun Che Fung

  2. FSKM, Mara University of Technology Sarawak Branch, Kota Samarahan Campus, 94300, East Malaysia

    Elinda Ai-Lim Lee

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  1. State Key Lab of CAD&CG, DEARC – Digital Entertainment and Animation Research Center, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, China

    Zhigeng Pan

  2. National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Adrian David Cheok

  3. University of Education, Weingarten, Germany

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  4. Institute of Automation, LIAMA, The Sino-French Lab in Computer Science, NLPR, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, China

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Lee, E.AL., Wong, K.W., Fung, C.C. (2010). Learning with Virtual Reality: Its Effects on Students with Different Learning Styles. In: Pan, Z., Cheok, A.D., Müller, W., Zhang, X., Wong, K. (eds) Transactions on Edutainment IV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6250. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14484-4_8

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