The Impact of MR on Preservice Teachers’ Creativity and Performance in Instructive Task Designs

Abstract

This article explores whether there are significant differences in the creativity level of future teachers in teaching design. In virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) experimental teaching environments, the K-DOCS creative power scale, the flow state scale, and the expert group assessment scale were used to investigate the mediation effect of flow, attention, and meditation on the creativity level. The results indicate that in the MR experimental teaching environment, the three factors have a moderate mediating effect on the creativity level of future teachers (n = 65), and meditation has a certain regulating effect on heart flow (0.175*); In the VR experimental teaching environment (n = 67), only the factor of heart flow has a moderate promotion effect on the creativity level of future teachers (0.822***). The study results indicate that the quality of future teachers’ creative instructional design in the MR environment is higher than that in the VR environment. In addition more MR experimental teaching environments should be provided to cultivate the creativity level of future teachers in teaching design.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This research was conducted with the NSFC project [62077041], VR experiment teaching project in Zhejiang Province [2019(5)-264], Ministry of Education Industry-University Cooperation Project [No. 202101078019]. General scientific research projects of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education [No. Y202250527]. Research on Virtual Human Intelligent Interaction and Motion planning Technology [No. 62072150].

Notes on contributors

Ji-Jian Lu

Ji-Jian Lu is an associate professor in Jing Hengyi School of Education, Hangzhou Normal University. His research interests include application of XR mathematics education and math education information.

Mei-Mei Zhou

Mei-Mei Zhou is a postgraduate in Jing Hengyi School of Education, Hangzhou Normal University. Her research interests include application of XR mathematics education and math education information.

Bi-Han Jiang

Bi-Han Jiang is a postgraduate in Jing Hengyi School of Education, Hangzhou Normal University. Her research interests include application of XR mathematics education and math education information.

Ming-Min Zhang

Ming-Min Zhang is an associate professor in College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University. Her research interests include Computer graphics, image processing, virtual reality, computer vision and so on.

Zhi-Geng Pan

Zhi-Geng Pan is a professor in College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. His research interests include Computer graphics, image processing, virtual reality, computer vision and so on.