Building A WebXR Based Knowledge Diffusion and Communication Learning Centre with A.I. Elements Through Transdisciplinary Collaboration with Students in Different Specialisms (Coming Soon)
As the evolvement of internet technologies, various information and communication technologies are adopted to enhance the language learning process and to facilitate effective communication. Over the past decades, we have been in a whole new world of knowledge learning, diffusion, and communication with augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies. Web extended reality (webXR) is being used as a solution to bridge the real world and the virtual world in learning and communication activities designed under the web browser. The ability to adopt these kinds of technology to diffuse disciplinary knowledge is necessary for our new generations. Aiming at re-envisioning the immersive web learning and communication experience with webXR, we initiated a project in 2022, intended to establish a webXR-based Virtual Chinese Language Learning Centre (VCLLC) to provide a well-structured virtual learning environment for students to deploy both the Chinese language communication skills and the webXR technology ability to effective writing, display and diffuse their disciplinary knowledge in the Chinese language which can be best suit for modern communication. In this paper, we will discuss and share some experiences on the establishment of a transdisciplinary assignment mechanism that helps students’ learning in the use of the Chinese language with latest ICT technology to diffuse and communicate on a new level by promoting hands-on practices, which can encourage our students imagine, create, and deliver innovative XR experiences with their disciplinary context in the Chinese language.
互聯網技術在過去幾十年迅猛發展，引領人類進入知識學習、傳播和交流的新世界。近年，教育界爭相以不同資訊科技來加強語言學習的成效和應用能力，以及促進有效溝通的學習模式，其中應用於語言學習上的擴增實境（AR）和虛擬實境（VR）技術更大行其道。而作為連接現實世界和虛擬世界解決方案的網路擴展實境（webXR）技術，也備受關注。該技術可用來提升學科知識的傳播和呈現能力，是新世代學習生涯的重要構成部分。我們在2022年開展了一個TDLEG項目，旨在重新定位網路擴展實境（webXR）的沉浸式網路學習和交流經驗；並在此基礎上打造虛擬中文學習中心，為學生提供完備的虛擬學習環境，以增強中文溝通技能和網路擴展實境的技術能力培訓。項目中的學習和交流活動，藉著網路瀏覽器的虛擬實境功能，給合最新的ICT技術，讓學生有效地以中文來認識、製作和展示學科知識，並鼓勵學生想像、創造和提供創新的網路擴展實境體驗。
This project is funded by the Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant (TDLEG)
Principal Investigator: Dr Chan Chi Ming