Virtual reality in education: a tool for learning in the experience age

June 20, 2018

We are now in the Experience Age – where 92% of teens are online daily, playing games, livestreaming memorable experiences, sharing ephemeral moments on Snapchat, or posting pictures of exciting daily occurrences on Instagram (Wadhera, 2016). Both informal and formal learning, as a result, have shifted again: from an Industrial Revolution model of education, where a teacher transmitted information to students via a ‘one size fits all’ mentality; to an Information Age model, in which access to and accumulation of information was the highest priority.

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