{"id":209,"date":"2019-04-01T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/?p=209"},"modified":"2019-04-12T14:55:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T21:55:29","slug":"vr-ar-and-the-now-and-future-of-stem-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/2019\/04\/01\/vr-ar-and-the-now-and-future-of-stem-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"VR\/AR and the now-and-future of STEM learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medical students in England\u00a0during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3162231\/\">18th and 19th century<\/a> knew about the notorious bodysnatching from graveyards to provide them with a sufficient supply of cadavers for their anatomy classes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3162231\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-211 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/files\/2019\/04\/England-dissecting-room-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/files\/2019\/04\/England-dissecting-room-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/files\/2019\/04\/England-dissecting-room.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to the 21st century, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centreforbrainhealth.ca\/news\/2018\/07\/04\/untangling-brain\u2019s-wires-virtual-space\">medical students<\/a> are now probing the inside of a human body with <a href=\"https:\/\/anatomyou.com\/en\/\">Anatomyou<\/a> via a\u00a0VR headset. No cadavers are needed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.studyinternational.com\/news\/how-virtual-reality-technologies-are-revolutionising-stem-learning\/\">VR\/AR technology<\/a> is now and will continue to be an indispensable partner not only of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centreforbrainhealth.ca\/news\/2018\/07\/04\/untangling-brain\u2019s-wires-virtual-space\">medical students<\/a>, but virtually all students across disciplines, and particularly those specialising in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.studyinternational.com\/news\/how-virtual-reality-technologies-are-revolutionising-stem-learning\/\">STEM<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centreforbrainhealth.ca\/news\/2018\/07\/04\/untangling-brain\u2019s-wires-virtual-space\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-210 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/files\/2019\/04\/ubc-brain-research-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/files\/2019\/04\/ubc-brain-research-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/files\/2019\/04\/ubc-brain-research.jpg 641w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical students in England\u00a0during the 18th and 19th century knew about the notorious bodysnatching from graveyards to provide them with a sufficient supply of cadavers for their anatomy classes. Fast forward to the 21st century, medical students are now probing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/2019\/04\/01\/vr-ar-and-the-now-and-future-of-stem-learning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3030,1503,34860],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-england","tag-medical","tag-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}