Development of Interactive Textbooks by Applying STEAM and Virtual Reality Concepts

Abstract

This research aims to explore the impact of STEAM on VR-bascd interdisciplinary courses and the course satisfaction of students from a sci-tech university. To achieve the goal, this study took students taking interdisciplinary courses at a scitech university in south Taiwan as the research subject and carried out an 18-week "STEAM course about the development of VR-based textbooks" through small-group cooperative learning. To investigate the impact of the STEAM course and the course satisfaction of students, this study adopted both quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis, such as questionnaire analysis and file analysis, to evaluate students' performances on the products and grades. This study creatively combined the interdisciplinary and convergent thinking of STEAM with the course about the development of VR-based textbooks. Based on the student-centered and teacher-facilitated concepts, this study designed the STEAM course about the development of VR-bascd textbooks and found that most students think highly of the impact of STEAM, course satisfaction, and the assistance of VR-bascd textbooks to STEAM. Lastly, this study proposed some practical advice on how to combine STEAM with VR-based course teaching. © 2022 Tempus Publications. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Author Keywords

STEAM Virtual reality textbooks Education reform human-computer interactive

Index Keywords

E-learning Teaching Curricula Students Virtual reality qualitative analysis Student performance Student-centred Education reforms Student teachers Convergent thinkings Cooperative learning Steam Steam reforming Textbooks Human-computer interactive Interdisciplinary course Research subjects

Author Affiliations

General Research Service Center, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Pingtung, Taiwan

Graduate Institute of Technological and Vocational Education, National of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Shu-Te University, Yenchao, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Funding & Acknowledgements

No funding information

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Development of Interactive Textbooks by Applying STEAM and Virtual Reality Concepts

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