Using virtual reality and 360-degree video in the religious studies classroom: An experiment

The advent of relatively inexpensive 360-degree cameras and virtual reality (VR) headsets brings new possibilities to the study of religion by allowing students to become virtually immersed in distant religious environments at very little cost. These tools can serve as the basis for assignments that...

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Autor principal: Johnson, Christopher D. L. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell [2018]
En: Teaching theology and religion
Año: 2018, Volumen: 21, Número: 3, Páginas: 228-241
Clasificaciones IxTheo:AH Pedagogía de la religión
RH Evangelización
ZF Pedagogía
Otras palabras clave:B Technology
B virtual religion
B Empathy
B digital pedagogy
B theories of religion
B Virtual Reality
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Verlag)
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Sumario:The advent of relatively inexpensive 360-degree cameras and virtual reality (VR) headsets brings new possibilities to the study of religion by allowing students to become virtually immersed in distant religious environments at very little cost. These tools can serve as the basis for assignments that help to engage students and meet core learning outcomes such as empathetic understanding and ethnographic analysis of religious place, ritual, and behavior in light of theories of religion. This article describes and reflects on the experimental incorporation of these technologies in two sections of an introductory religious studies course at a small two-year campus in the University of Wisconsin System.
ISSN:1467-9647
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Teaching theology and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/teth.12446