Share Paper: Development of Interactive Virtual Learning Environment to Cultivate Spatial Thinking

1. Yukako Miyanishi, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Japan
2. Toru Nagahama, Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Japan
3. Yusuke Morita, Faculty of Human Sciences, Japan

Abstract: Recent reports provide many methods of learning the STEM subject areas (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). The purpose of this study is to develop a virtual learning environment to cultivate spatial thinking in STEM. Interactive Virtual Learning Environment of the Space (IVLES) is a learning system to simulate and demonstrate the virtual space. In IVLES, users can grab and move the virtual sun and the moon using virtual reality controllers. IVLES can promote users to picture the view of the sun and the moon from a point of the earth because users can switch two types of views from the ...