Inven!RA Architecture for Sustainable Deployment of Immersive Learning Environments

Leonel Morgado (), António Coelho, Dennis Beck, Christian Gütl, Fernando Cassola, Ricardo Baptista, Maria van Zeller, Daniela Pedrosa, Tiago Cruzeiro, Duarte Cota, Ricardo Grilo and Eliane Schlemmer
Additional contact information
Leonel Morgado: Regional Delegation of Coimbra, Universidade Aberta, R. Alexandre Herculano 52, 3000-019 Coimbra, Portugal
António Coelho: Institute for Systems and Computing Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Dennis Beck: Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
Christian Gütl: Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science, Graz University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria
Fernando Cassola: Institute for Systems and Computing Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Ricardo Baptista: Institute for Systems and Computing Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Maria van Zeller: Institute for Systems and Computing Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Daniela Pedrosa: Department of Education and Psychology, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Tiago Cruzeiro: Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Duarte Cota: Department of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Aberta, 1250-100 Lisboa, Portugal
Ricardo Grilo: Department of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Aberta, 1250-100 Lisboa, Portugal
Eliane Schlemmer: Grupo Internacional de Pesquisa Educação Digital—GPe-dU, University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo 93022-750, Brazil

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-20

Abstract: The objective of this work was to support the sustainable deployment of immersive learning environments, which face varied obstacles, including the lack of support infrastructures for active learning pedagogies. Sustainability from the perspective of the integration of these environments in educational practice entails situational awareness, workload, and the informed assessment ability of participants, which must be supported for such activities to be employed in a widespread manner. We have approached this wicked problem using the Design Science Research paradigm and produced the Inven!RA software architecture. This novel result constitutes a solution for developing software platforms to enable the sustainable deployment of immersive learning environments. The Inven!RA architecture is presented alongside four demonstration scenarios employed in its evaluation, providing a means for the situational awareness of immersive learning activities in support of pedagogic decision making.

Keywords: deployment; immersive learning environments; active learning; inventive learning; integration; interoperability; adoption; Inven!RA; awareness; analytics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/1/857/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/1/857/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:1:p:857-:d:1023718

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().