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ICIST 2017: Information and Software Technologies pp 457–465Cite as

Virtual Reality in Education: New Ways to Learn

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The paper presents new ways of education using virtual reality, new challenges for educators and new models to use it in the practice. Authors worked on the virtual reality to be used for learning a history subject. Empirical research on the learning process effectiveness will be presented and a model for use of virtual reality will be suggested. The overview of the existing practices and researches and conclusions on the topic will be provided.

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    Tomas Blazauskas, Rytis Maskeliunas, Reda Bartkute, Vitalija Kersiene & Indre Jurkeviciute

  2. Kaunas University of Technology, A. Mickeviciaus str. 37, 44244, Kaunas, Lithuania

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Blazauskas, T., Maskeliunas, R., Bartkute, R., Kersiene, V., Jurkeviciute, I., Dubosas, M. (2017). Virtual Reality in Education: New Ways to Learn. In: Damaševičius, R., Mikašytė, V. (eds) Information and Software Technologies. ICIST 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 756. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67642-5_38

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