Skepticism towards advancing VR technology - student acceptance of VR as a teaching and assessment tool in medicine.

ABSTRACT: Objective: The high didactic potential of Virtual Reality (VR) contrasts with the point of view of students that the technology only has a relatively low significance for current and future teaching. This discrepancy was studied in a differentiated manner in order to gear the further development and implementation of VR towards the target group. Methods: From January 2020 to July 2020, medical students (N=318) were asked to watch ten videos online and rate them on the basis of acceptance indicators (e.g., fun and fairness). Using obstetrics as an example, the videos demonstrated five levels of VR technology functionality (e.g., haptic and adaptive feedback), some of which were visionary, in two use scenarios (teaching and the OSCE). The individual and aggregate indicat

SUBMITTER: Walter S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8493843 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature