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ICHL 2015: Hybrid Learning: Innovation in Educational Practices pp 3–14Cite as

Virtual Reality-Based Learning Environments: Recent Developments and Ongoing Challenges

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Virtual Reality (VR) technologies bring new opportunities and challenges to teaching and learning. Virtual Reality Learning Environment (VRLE), a VR-based interactive environment incorporating instructional design for educational purposes, nowadays draws great attention of interdisciplinary scholars. In this paper, we first introduce the current status of VRLE-based research studies from various perspectives and then summarise the on-going challenges based on previous research studies and our own experience in this research area.

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    http://www.velscience.com/

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    http://secondlife.com/

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    http://openwonderland.org/

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Acknowledgement

We would like to thank our colleagues, Ms. Julia Byrne and Ms. Kate S Y Lau, of Centre for Innovative Applications of Internet and Multimedia Technologies (AIMtech Centre) and Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, for their contribution to our research studies on VRLEs for general and special education.

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    Horace H. S. Ip & Chen Li

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    Lam-for Kwok

  3. State University of New York at Oswego and Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, Oswego, New York, USA

    Harrison Yang

  4. City University of Hong Kong and International Hybrid Learning Society, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong, China

    Joseph Fong

  5. Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong, China

    Reggie Kwan

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Ip, H.H.S., Li, C. (2015). Virtual Reality-Based Learning Environments: Recent Developments and Ongoing Challenges. In: Cheung, S., Kwok, Lf., Yang, H., Fong, J., Kwan, R. (eds) Hybrid Learning: Innovation in Educational Practices. ICHL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9167. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20621-9_1

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