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Immersive Learning across School and Community (ILASC)

How can AR and VR support students’ deep learning? and What role might organizations in the local community play in students' learning and competence development in science education?

Illustration photo: Colourbox

About the project

In the project Immersive Learning Across Contexts (ILASC), we will develop interdisciplinary learning designs targeting the topic Public Health and Life Competence (Folkehelse og Livsmestring) where new digital technologies, such as virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), play an important part as learning resources. We will create learning environments that enable students to experience abstract knowledge in engaging and meaningful ways by connecting the classroom to relevant knowledge practices in the local community. We will employ design-based methods that involve close collaboration between researchers, schools and organizations in the local community.

Background

This is a three-year project, which involves researchers at, students and teachers in an upper secondary school in Oslo, youth which is engaged in a sports club and the local community in which the school is situated. We employ design-based methods in the project, as well as sociocultural and situated perspectives on learning and technology-use.

Financing

Innovation in Public Innovation, The Norwegian Research Council

Colaboration partners

The Education Agency of the City of Oslo (project owner), Department of Education, University of Oslo (project leader), Faculty of Education and International Studies, OsloMet, a sports club and an upper secondary school in Oslo.

Publications

Other

Domanchin, Morgane Barbara; Arnseth, Hans Christian; Silseth, Kenneth & Steier, Rolf (2023). Co-designing for Immersive Learning Experiences in the Classroom . Show summary
This research draws on a teacher-led innovation project to create digitally mediated learning experiences targeting the theme of “Health and Wellbeing”. Over a year, high school teachers, students and researchers co-designed three interdisciplinary learning activities involving immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) as well as social media. Each of the three learning activities represents flexible innovative learning ecologies targeting students’ deep learning. By adopting a design-ethnographic approach and social interaction analysis of the development process, the findings provide insight into the designed activities as reflective of broader learning ecologies. In addition, we discuss the potential of immersive technologies to support students’ talk and engagement in small groups. The study documents the development of new teaching and learning practices targeting societal level challenges.
Arnseth, Hans Christian & Domanchin, Morgane Barbara (2022). Pedagogisk innovasjon med AR og VR: Muligheter og utfordringer. Show summary
I denne forelesningen vil vi presentere DigiLiv-prosjektet som utvikler innovative læringsdesign innen temaet folkehelse og livsmestring. Hovedmålet med prosjektet er å utvikle tverrfaglige undervisningsopplegg hvor virtuell virkelighet (VR) og utvidet virkelighet (AR) gir mer engasjerende, relevant og dybdeorientert læring for elevene. I samarbeid med lærere, designere og forskere utvikler vi innovative praksisnære undervisningsopplegg i videregående opplæring. I denne presentasjonen vil vi, i tillegg til å beskrive innovasjonsprosessen, analysere hvordan AR og VR kan støtte læring i idrettsfag og samfunnsfag.
Silseth, Kenneth; Domanchin, Morgane Barbara & Arnseth, Hans Christian (2022). Engasjerende dybdelæring med AR og VR .