@inproceedings{0442d7cefa3c4f968f8a6c0c699b1078,
title = "Work-in-Progress-A 360 Virtual Reality Simulation to Prepare Social Work Students to Interact with Community Environments",
abstract = "Social work educators utilize theories to teach students about the correlations that exist between the environment and an individual's development. Students, however, do not apply these theoretical perspectives with consistency when interacting with people within their communities. Virtual reality (VR) can be a scaffolding tool used to address this disparity. This work-in-progress paper describes a 360 VR tool aimed at immersing students in a typical NYC neighborhood. Pre-and post-performance of students who engaged with the VR tool showed statistically significant learning gains and positive effects on VR use, value, and satisfaction with the experience.",
keywords = "field education, situated learning theory, social work, virtual reality",
author = "Nicholas Lanzieri and Henry Samelson and Elizabeth McAlpin and David Shilane",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Immersive Learning Research Network.; 6th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network, iLRN 2020 ; Conference date: 21-06-2020 Through 25-06-2020",
year = "2020",
month = jun,
doi = "10.23919/iLRN47897.2020.9155161",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of 6th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network, iLRN 2020",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "271--274",
editor = "Daphne Economou and Alexander Klippel and Heather Dodds and Anasol Pena-Rios and Lee, {Mark J. W.} and Dennis Beck and Johanna Pirker and Andreas Dengel and Peres, {Tiago M.} and Jonathon Richter",
booktitle = "Proceedings of 6th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network, iLRN 2020",
}