IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY IN INTELLIGENT LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS A case in higher education

Teaching has been brought to face a wave of change in which information technology is obligated to find new ways and learning environments, enabling the teacher to develop strategies and resources that support the educational process. The elaboration of pedagogical tools that integrate the use of virtual reality (VR) can achieve an effective multisensory communication within the classroom, considering that students have different learning abilities: visual, auditory, reading and kinesthetic (VARK). This paper proposes the use of such abilities through a bank of VR scenarios attached to a management system. The system works on an intelligent immersive environment with the use of head mounted displays, VR chambers and gloves, detecting in a natural way the presence of the student who carries a radio frequency identification card (RFID) and once identified, the information system provides VR resources according to his learning skills. This paper describes the aspects that support the project and the results of its application.