Applying a Virtual Reality Platform in Environmental Chemistry Education To Conduct a Field Trip to an Overseas Site

Fun Man Fung (1) , Wen Yi Choo , Alvita Ardisara (1) , Christoph Dominik Zimmermann , Simon Watts (1) , Thierry Koscielniak (2, 3) , Etienne Blanc (3) , Xavier Coumoul (3) , Rainer Dumke (4, 5)

1 NUS - National University of Singapore
2 CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM]
3 Université Paris Cité - UFR Sciences Fondamentales et Biomédicales [Sciences]
4 CQT - Centre for Quantum Technologies [Singapore]
5 SPMS-PAP-02-01 - Division of Physics and Applied Physics [Nanyang Technological University]

Field trips are a common activity for instructors to engage students and give them a first-hand understanding of a subject, especially in environmental chemistry. However, the planning and execution for a field trip is logistically challenging and demanding of human and material resources. Here, we demonstrate the conduct of a virtual overseas field trip for 74 students with the use of a web-based virtual reality (VR) application. From the feedback after the virtual field trip, students reported general receptiveness toward such use of VR technology.

Keywords: Upper-Division Undergraduate; General Public; Demonstrations; Analytical Chemistry; Environmental Chemistry; Computer-Based Learning; Internet/Web-Based Learning; Upper-Division Undergraduate General Public Demonstrations Analytical Chemistry Environmental Chemistry Computer-Based Learning Internet/Web-Based Learning Multimedia-Based Learning Second-Year Undergraduate; Multimedia-Based Learning; Second-Year Undergraduate

Domains: Chemical Sciences; Humanities and Social Sciences; Education

Fun Man Fung, Wen Yi Choo, Alvita Ardisara, Christoph Dominik Zimmermann, Simon Watts, et al.. Applying a Virtual Reality Platform in Environmental Chemistry Education To Conduct a Field Trip to an Overseas Site. Journal of Chemical Education, 2019, 96 (2), pp.382-386. ⟨10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00728⟩. ⟨hal-04026750⟩