Educational Technology by Chen Lyu

CoSpaces Edu (A Tool for Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education)

cnlu1 — 2024-09-10 18:17:18 UTC

CoSpaces Edu is an educational platform designed to create interactive virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) content. It allows students and educators to build immersive 3D environments in the classroom.

The platform has tools for creating, coding, and animating; users can craft interactive experiences that enhance learning in subjectsin many alternative ways with imagination.

The platform supports block-based coding (CoBlocks) and JavaScript, so even a user without coding knowledge is able to utilize it in a 3d classroom they want.

Link:https://www.cospaces.io/

Overview of Co Spaces Edu

cnlu1 — 2024-09-10 23:25:40 UTC

There are simply three primary uses for this platform:

1. Creating and sharing visual content: Users can create interactive virtual reality(VR) and augmented reality(AR) environments, engage with coding, animate objects, and build stories.

2. Multi-disciplinary education support utility: CoSpace Edu is used for teaching programming, science, mathematics, arts, and almost every subject class with its utility and function.

3. VR and AR Utility: CoSpace can provide an immersive learning experience in classroom environments that allows students/learners to explore scenarios that are difficult to replicate in real life.

Learning Theories Applied in CoSpaces Edu

cnlu1 — 2024-09-10 23:51:07 UTC

Constructivism: CoSpaces allows students to learn by actively making virtual content that fits constructivist learning theory.

Collaborative Learning: Learners can collaborate on projects or work in a teacher-created VR classroom. They also share and edit their work in the same build project, which aligns with collaborative learning principles.

Experiential Learning: Learners get on to immersive learning experiences in virtual environments, aligning with experiential learning theory.

Example 1: Romeo & Juliet (English)

cnlu1 — 2024-09-10 23:54:41 UTC

Here is an example of an VR Romeo & Juliet example that this platform could be used in English classroom.

Link: https://edu.cospaces.io/Universe/Languages/Space/YUT-RHS

Example 2: Volcano Eruption (Physic/Environment)

cnlu1 — 2024-09-11 00:05:04 UTC

Here is an example of how to make an immersive classroom environment of Volcano Eruption. This is a stimulation so students could feel.

Link:https://edu.cospaces.io/MWK-VQX

Example 3: Munich City Tour (Geography)

cnlu1 — 2024-09-11 00:07:40 UTC

This is an example of how to make a city tour with guidance in a VR environment. The vitural tour can also be changed to a museum or something with the same logic like this.

Link:https://edu.cospaces.io/SSR-ZKZ