A UWF team is leading a project to improve undergraduate teacher education in STEM disciplines. The multi-university project will work with 250 college students to study how virtual reality and artificial intelligence simulations compare to traditional peer-teaching models in preparing future STEM educators.
Some participants will engage with a VR simulation with artificial intelligence called Engage VR. Others will participate in guided peer-teaching sessions. “This research explores the potential of artificial intelligence – driven avatars in virtual reality to transform the way future STEM teachers learn to teach,” says UWF’s John Pecore said. The team will also design a scalable peer-teaching model that universities can adopt even without access to virtual reality tools.
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