Designing a Virtual Reality Game for Religious Culture Guided Tour by Combining Voice Guided Scaffolding and Situated Learning Mechanism

Abstract

The study developed an online virtual reality educational game, "Temple Keeper Training Day Camp", integrating an online virtual reality game, voice guiding and situated learning mechanism. The learners play the role of the temple keeper trainee and have to utilize the knowledge of the religious cultural customs and also the history of the city where the temple located to help and fulfill all the tasks from the pilgrims. We investigated learners’ learning performance, flow status and game acceptance. The results revealed that their learning performance had been significantly improved, indicating that the game did effectively improve the learner’s knowledge about the temple customs and history of the city. Also, the high flow status and game acceptance both showed the learners had an enjoyable and fruitful learning experience.