Possibilities of using virtual reality technologies in education

Abstract

An important trend in today’s conditions (Russia’s military aggression, the COVID-19 pandemic) is the use of information and communication technologies in the modern educational process, including virtual reality technologies. Scientists of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine pay considerable attention to the use of virtual reality technologies in education in Ukraine. Their works reflect the accumulated domestic and foreign experience in working with virtual reality technologies, the introduction of virtual reality platforms in distance learning. In their research, researchers note that virtual reality technologies, as an effective tool of the educational process, have great potential for solving problems of the educational process. In their work, scientists note that the prospect of further research is the mass introduction into the educational process of modern educational institutions of virtual reality technologies, as well as the development of methodological and didactic materials for their effective use.

In their work, scientists and practitioners of educational institutions pay considerable attention to one of the promising areas of application of virtual information technology, in particular the development of virtual laboratories. These software environments can serve to provide a better level of learning material and with which you can make it more saturated, visual, bright and accessible. A virtual learning environment allows you to model the behavior of real-world objects in a computer environment and promotes the acquisition of new knowledge and skills on a more conscious and deeper level. The issue of virtual laboratories is widely covered in the foreign press. First of all, there are the problems of implementing a virtual laboratory for medical students, such as nurses and exercise specialists, and the work of a virtual educational research laboratory in the nuclear field, including the development of 3D models of the TRIGA reactor using virtual reality models.