Universitary revolution: impact of virtual reality in the educational contextual

Abstract

The main purpose of this research was to prioritize the use of virtual reality technology as a teaching resource for students with special needs, being essential to enhance the acquisition of knowledge. This enables the effective use of immersive environments in order to obtain effective results. Education takes advantage of technological advances to offer new teaching modalities that contribute to the learning progress of students at the State University of the South of Manabí. The analysis and importance of technologies focused on virtual environments are considered fundamental and essential technological tools for the immersive interaction of students. This technology, as an educational complement, is responsible for improving the traditional teaching-learning approach. The methodology used focused on research with a qualitative approach, the level of depth of the study was presented as exploratory of an experimental type, using methods such as historical-logical, hypothetical-deductive, documentary analysis, bibliographic, observation, interview and mathematical statistics. This study integrated virtual reality technologies as a necessary tool and supplement for educational training achieving quality, promoting the use of technologies through virtual environments as an applicable educational method. It is concluded that education with the use of technology achieves new pedagogical paradigms that facilitate the development of learning in university students.