Terra Nova Virtual Reality Interview

http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2007/05/teaching_in_vr_.html

The virual reality and Immersive education interview with Proffessor Walsh dives into the recently learning tool of virtual reality. Walsh explains in the interview that Immersive education and virtuality has really grown in the last 10 years to give more options for students to be taught from their computers at home. He also explains in the interview the pros and cons of online learning and that immersive education still is growing.

Walsh explains that not everybody enjoys learning in environment that is face to face or tradition classroom setting. He belives that some stuudents will enjoy learning in a virtual world and will perform better using inline learning tools. However, he also states that online learning is not for everyoine and some students will feel disconnected and much rather prefer the tradition classroom setting to learn.

Nevertheless, virtual realty and online learning is growing rapidly and still in the beginning stages. Walsh states that immersive education is continually trying to expand its online learning tools and capabilies. Walsh also states that there are many schools that have not invested or adopted immersive education as a way to teach some of it classes. He believes that virtual learning has a lot of potential to grow and will become a major of teaching at secondary institutions in the future.