Work-in-progress: Didactical Design for Virtual Reality Education

Didactical Design has been proposed as an act of modeling processes in educational settings. It is an interplay of several pedagogical elements to strengthen teaching and learning processes. The term didactic originates from the Scandinavian and German concept of Didaktik; which focuses upon the relationship between content-student-teacher, whilst explicitly emphasizing the distinction between teaching practice and student learning. The Didaktik method embraces what to learn (i.e., curriculum and content), when to learn (e.g., in what kinds of situations and locations), and how learning can be achieved (e.g., self-regulated learning). This work-in-progress proposes Didactical Design as the science of planning and performing, where both teaching and learning is a social practice, subsequently demonstrating a particular design form for education in Virtual Reality.