{"id":378,"date":"2021-11-05T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cogitateandpercolate.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:49:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:49:39","slug":"what-happened-when-student-brains-on-vr-were-scanned-is-analyzed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cogitateandpercolate.com\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"“What Happened When Student Brains — on VR — Were Scanned” is Analyzed."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Should you accept this, What Happened When Student Brains – on VR – Were Scanned, as good research?<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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I believe that VR has a place in education.  We\u2019ll get there and it will be awesome.<\/span><\/p>\n

However,
\n along the way, I will analyze and call out poor virtual reality and
\nlearning research EVERY CHANCE I GET.  Poor research helps no one.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be writing about several poor VR studies soon. I\u2019m writing just like I did for my \u201cSurvey does NOT show that instructional designers drive better student outcomes<\/a>.\u201d 
\n Even though poor research should be called out (yes!) I am NOT in the
\nbusiness of embarrassing or humiliating a person nor damaging or ending
\nsomeone\u2019s business.  Therefore, I will block out names as much as
\npossible.  If the source blatantly has names within it though (for
\nexample, if someone names a company), I\u2019ll keep that in the screen
\ncapture.  Note however, the minute time traveling teenagers arrive in my
\n home office asking me to truly name names related to this, I AM SO
\nTELLING THEM.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seat belt sign on.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Seat belts on. It’s a bumpy ride ahead.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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On July 25, 2021<\/b>, an author that I\u2019ll call Author A posted this story to Medium: What Happened when student brains on VR were scanned<\/a>
\n Before you click on that link, remember that Medium is a site where
\nauthors are paid for article reads.  Now I post to Medium too (as a
\nmatter of fact, I\u2019m posting this article there as a sort of rock\u2019em
\nsock\u2019em method of seeing my article go head to head against his) but<\/strike> [EDIT: I no longer post to Medium] just bear in mind that the more you click, the more the author is paid.
\nAuthor A appears to have posted 6 articles to Medium and 4 of them are
\nabout VR. (Update: during publication, this has increased, I\u2019ll pick
\nthis point up again at the end of this article).
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\n 2021 version of this image, I\u2019ve blocked the author\u2019s account. Note the
\n added #VEC2019.  I think it\u2019s very obvious that the #VEC2019 was
\noverlaid.<\/span><\/p>\n

VEC2019 is the VIVE Ecosystem Conference<\/a> held in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Inside the article, I did hope to find sources.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is what I found (names blocked):<\/span><\/p>\n

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In July 2021, Author A posted to their own LinkedIn account<\/b><\/div>\n

Partial capture of post here (blocked out the link and a name):<\/span><\/p>\n

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While you are looking at this though, does anything stand out yet?<\/span><\/p>\n

Already for me:<\/span><\/p>\n