Título: | VIRTUAL REALITY AND ITS ADOPTION IN HIGHER EDUCATION: ATTITUDE AND INTENTION OF ADOPTING VIRTUAL REALITY BY HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS | ||||||||||||
Autor: |
CAROLINA PEREIRA DE CASTRO FREITAS |
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Colaborador(es): |
JORGE BRANTES FERREIRA - Orientador |
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Catalogação: | 18/JUN/2020 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||
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Referência(s): |
[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=48675&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=48675&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.48675 | ||||||||||||
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The subject of Virtual Reality has solidified its applicability and shown
itself to be increasingly relevant as a technology to overcome the physical barriers
of communication and experiential learning. In this context, education appears as
one of the areas most likely to benefit from this technology, since the use of
Virtual Reality can provide unimaginable practical experiences in absorbing
information as well as allowing for complex distance interactions, assisting and
serving to innovate educational practices and methodologies, contributing to the
qualification of professionals trained for the challenges and needs of the current
technological market environment. The study proposes and tests a model for
measuring factors that may influence the adoption of Virtual Reality in higher
education. In order to relate the topic of Virtual Reality and innovation adoption,
the study model was based on the innovation attributes of the innovation diffusion
theory (IDT - ROGERS, 2003) and the hypotheses tested the effects of relative
advantage, complexity, compatibility, trialability, observability and perceived
playfulness in the general attitude of Virtual Reality adoption, as well as the effect
of such attitude on the intention to adopt this technology. The quantitative
research analyzes a sample of 382 students from public and / or private higher
educational institutions in Brazil. The findings allow us to infer that several of the
factors studied affect the intention to adopt Virtual Reality for learning,
confirming most of the research hypotheses. The study results represent advances
in knowledge about the adoption of Virtual Reality in education and suggest
important contributions for students and higher education institutions, with regard
to the adoption and implementation of Virtual Reality technologies in teaching
practices.
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