How virtual Reality in education is changing learning

Mike Mbea
2 min readOct 19, 2021

When it comes to understanding the structure of complex mechanical, biological, or other systems, the text surrounding it is not sufficient. With the onset of STEM Education, we need to realize that what we call the revolution in learning and pedagogy is more of an interaction and problem solving based approach. Virtual reality in education is all about creating a new reality.

Think about it like this: What does it even mean when we say the need for augmented reality in education is at its prime today? Why do we need this experience in virtual reality in education? How will it change things? The answer is simple, yet profound. Dwelling more and more into the paradigms of subjective experience leaves us with a clear distinction of two things: Knowledge and Experience. Experience begets intuition and knowledge supplements it. If both do not go hand in hand, the intellect of the resource at hand dwindles. Keeping that in mind, in today’s environment, virtual reality classroom is indeed a necessity to make learning more and more experiential.

In the current conventional scenario of education, we see that the students are subjected to knowledge and are expected to gather experience once their knowledge-seeking is complete. This is an inefficient way of investing in the activity of education. What we need to do is to reach an optimized solution where both knowledge and experience complement each other and create better intellect, riddled with both in exact proportions.

Dwell a little more on how this upcoming technology of augmented reality in the classroom will indeed create the system that we need to implement virtual reality in education.

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