Short Paper: The Impact of Environmental Education with Immersive Environment on Learning Performance and Environmental Identity

• Published in: 2019 First International Conference on ​Transdisciplinary AI (TransAI) pp. 18 - 21
• Main Authors: Yu, Zhao, lin, Xun
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.09.2019
• Subjects: Atmospheric measurements; Connectedness to Nature Scale; Earth; Education; Environmental Education; Immersive environment; Multimodal interaction; Particle measurements; Statistical analysis
• DOI: 10.1109/TransAI46475.2019.00011

Nowadays, the technology of immersive environment and multimodal interaction like the virtual reality (VR) devices provide people with a way to visualize the natural environment. These applications in the field of environmental education will contribute to the study of their positive role in solving societal issues around AI (ethical, legal, and social implications). Users can use it to create a real experience in the environment, not just the images they see. This empirical study suggests that an environmental education programs by immersive and normal environmental films can be effective in helping to improving learning performance and environmental identity. The method of analysis is quantitative analysis, combined with qualitative. The experimental group used immersive applications to view VR video clips while the control group used a desktop computer to observe the same video clips. The subjects were given the same questionnaire after video viewing. The questionnaire included environmental knowledge related to video clips and the Connectedness to Nature scale to measure participants' trait levels of feeling emotionally connected to the natural world. The results answered the research questions well and supported these hypotheses: (1) The use of VR equipment will affect the learning performance of the subjects. The learning effect of the experimental group is better than that of the control group. (2) The use of VR equipment could improve the environmental identity of the subjects. Compared with the control group, the result of scale in the experimental group showed a higher level of environmental identity.