A Systematic Literature Review on Immersive Education

Abstract

Poor students’ academic performance at all educational level nowadays is a significant challenge to educational stakeholders globally. A country’s development is directly connected to the academic performance of its student. There are multiple factors that can influence students’ academic performance, however, teachers’ instructional strategy play a significant role. Immersive education is a pedagogical approach that uses virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, augmented virtuality, 3D and 360 degree immersive technologies for knowledge and skill acquisition. First, the paper introduce immersive education and its categories to distinguish between these technologies. This study was guided by preferred reporting Items for systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol. The review protocol was designed to guide the conduct of the systematic literature review.  The review method comprised of research questions, inclusion and exclusion criteria, literature search strategy, study selection process, data extraction, data synthesis and report writing. This study evaluated empirical literature published in research community on immersive education from 2020 to 2024 by systematic literature review. The findings shows that despite the novelty and importance of immersive education, studies on this innovation is on decline in recent years. Therefore, it is recommended that further research be conducted on this technologies especially on augmented virtuality, 3D and 360 degree immersive technologies to leverage on its benefits in teaching and learning in education systems. .