A New Approach to XR Education: Student-Centred Learning and Gamification in Electric Power Training

Extended reality is changing the educational experience by transforming the way we teach and learn. Despite the education community promoting XR in education actively, their implementation is consistently disappointing the users, due to lack of interest and often failure to upgrade in time. Our study combines student-centred learning and gamification into the XR educational systems, considering what kind of systems are more engaging, more efficient, and have higher levels of user satisfaction. We first reviewed relevant literature to understand the theoretical foundations of student-centred learning and gamification, as well as their functions and significance in the XR educational system. Then, we constructed a theoretical model based on them, combining the core elements of student-centred learning and gamification strategies in the XR educational system, trying to provide theoretical guidance for future practice. We chose electric power training, which has the characteristics of complexity, high risk, and high investment, as the research object and tried to design an interesting and efficient virtual simulation electric power training system. By comparing and analyzing the theoretical model, we found that student-centred learning and gamification can significantly improve the effectiveness and user satisfaction for the training system.