Virtual Reality (VR) teaching resources guide
This guide is designed to help educators find content and resources related to integrating VR in teaching and instruction.
Finding VR content
- NFB
- Google Expeditions and Google Expeditions Pioneer Program (free)
- Nearpod (free & paid)
- Unimersiv (free & paid)
- CBC VR (free)
- Youtube 360 Videos (free)
- NYT VR Virtual Reality (free) (VR curriculum guide; 360 VR | The NYT)
Selected VR works produced or co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada
Resources on VR from our collection
Link to books:
- Augmented reality in education : a new technology for teaching and learning (ebook)
- Ethical considerations of virtual reality in the college classroom : cross-disciplinary case studies of immersive technology implementation (ebook)
- Making virtual reality a reality : designing educational initiatives in libraries with emerging technologies (print)
- Mixed reality for education (ebook)
- Understanding virtual reality : challenging perspectives for media literacy and education (ebook)
- Virtual and augmented reality in English language arts education (print)
Links to journals/conference proceedings:
- European Journal of Contemporary Education
- IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)
- IEEE Annual International Symposium Virtual Reality
- Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN)
- Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (JEMH)
- Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR)
- Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference
Lesson plans
- Expeditions Help: Add Expeditions to Your Lessons
- Google for Education
- TES Global
- Virtual Reality for Education Resource Guide
- VR School: insights into immersive virtual reality in real classrooms
- UBC VR/AR lessons
- NOAA Sanctuaries 360 Virtual reality lesson plans
- Canada Learning Code – Envisioning a better world in VR
- Shakespeare-VR Lesson plans (Carnegie Mellon University)