The influence of learners' openness to IT experience on the attitude and perceived learning effectiveness with virtual reality technologies

The increasingly complex operations in multinational business imposes the need of more advanced training tools to facilitate learners to understand the operations through an interactive and immersive way. This paper analyses the use of virtual reality (VR) technology, a more interactive, immersive and intuitive learning environment when compared to conventional teaching pedagogical development, in teaching complex cargo terminal operations. Learners, upon training with the novel scenes in VR environment, are evaluated with their perception and perceived learning effectiveness through the VR training. Through the learning in the three aspects, the intrinsic factor of individual, including openness to IT experience, influence the perceived usefulness of VR training and attitude towards learning, are reviewed. The study also reflects that learners with open attitude to experience new IT usage perceived more usefulness during the training with the support of VR environment. These learners, with comparatively more positive views, are more engaged in learning during the training.