TY - JOUR
T1 - The mainstream and extension of contemporary virtual reality education research
T2 - Insights from a co-citation network analysis (2015–2020)
AU - Cheng, Kun Hung
AU - Tang, Kai Yu
AU - Tsai, Chin Chung
N1 - Funding Information:
The research was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan under grant numbers MOST 108-2511-H-005-006-MY3 and MOST 109-2511-H-130-002. This work was also financially supported by the “Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences” of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) from The Featured Areas Research Center Program within the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan.
Funding Information:
The research was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan under grant numbers MOST 108-2511-H-005-006-MY3 and MOST 109-2511-H-130-002. This work was also financially supported by the “Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences” of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) from The Featured Areas Research Center Program within the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Association for Educational Communications and Technology.
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - Previous studies have provided various reviews with either general or specific scopes to understand virtual reality (VR) technologies for learning and teaching. However, a review of the networking structure among VR-supported education research from a citation-based perspective has not as yet been provided. With the inclusion of a total of 49 articles accompanying 834 citations from the Web of Science, a co-citation network was used to examine the citation relationships of VR-supported research from 2015 to 2020. The result showed that a series of Makransky’s articles were identified as the most frequently referenced research. We also present a visualized network diagram for offering a holistic structural understanding of the field. In the network, the mainstream exploring the interaction between individuals’ cognition and affection in the context of learning by VR was identified. The result of the co-citation network further revealed several extensions of the research trends such as the issues of the instructional design of VR learning, virtual labs in STEM education, embodied cognition by tangible VR, and the pedagogical influences of VR on young learners. Overall, this study contributes a citation-based approach to revealing the intellectual structure of VR-supported education, providing a fresh understanding and evidence for the field.
AB - Previous studies have provided various reviews with either general or specific scopes to understand virtual reality (VR) technologies for learning and teaching. However, a review of the networking structure among VR-supported education research from a citation-based perspective has not as yet been provided. With the inclusion of a total of 49 articles accompanying 834 citations from the Web of Science, a co-citation network was used to examine the citation relationships of VR-supported research from 2015 to 2020. The result showed that a series of Makransky’s articles were identified as the most frequently referenced research. We also present a visualized network diagram for offering a holistic structural understanding of the field. In the network, the mainstream exploring the interaction between individuals’ cognition and affection in the context of learning by VR was identified. The result of the co-citation network further revealed several extensions of the research trends such as the issues of the instructional design of VR learning, virtual labs in STEM education, embodied cognition by tangible VR, and the pedagogical influences of VR on young learners. Overall, this study contributes a citation-based approach to revealing the intellectual structure of VR-supported education, providing a fresh understanding and evidence for the field.
KW - Augmented and virtual reality
KW - Data science applications in education
KW - Human–computer interface
KW - Media in education
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U2 - 10.1007/s11423-021-10070-z
DO - 10.1007/s11423-021-10070-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85122666675
SN - 1042-1629
VL - 70
SP - 169
EP - 184
JO - Educational Technology Research and Development
JF - Educational Technology Research and Development
IS - 1
ER -