*Thivilojana S. Perinpasingam, Faisal Athar bin Mohd Fadzil, Shin Yen Tan, Carles Sharma Naidu a/l Achu Naidu

Abstract:

This study aims to foster immersive learning experience among a group of undergraduate students from a private higher learning institution in Malaysia. Immersive learning, specifically virtual reality or VR, is a futuristic pedagogical innovation. Nonetheless, little attention has been given to pre-service teachers in how they experience and view their teaching practice with VR integration. Therefore, this study intends to provide opportunities to pre-service teachers to experience virtual reality role-playing micro-teaching activities, with a specific focus on improving their classroom management skills in a VR platform called Engage VR. This real-time immersive training experience enables virtual presence in virtual reality settings and allows for life-like responsive engagements as avatars. This study is about Design Development Research (DDR) that focuses on the evaluation process involved in the integration of Engage VR in a teacher education programme. A development research method based on ADDIE’s model was selected, with three phases, namely needs analysis, design and development, and implementation and evaluation.

Keywords: Immersive learning, virtual reality, classroom management skills, virtual micro-teaching activities