The virtual reality as a flexible resource to improve engineering education
José M. Nieto-Jalil, Aaron Castro Bazua, Luis Carlos Félix Herrán, Francisco Isaias Gutierrez Castillo, Dionisio Othon Katase, Oscar Alberto Gonzalez Valenzuela
Abstract
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way education is delivered, and because of this problem, challenges and new needs have arisen that have led us to adapt the way we teach and evaluate. In this context, much work has been done to bring students learning experiences in new modalities to safeguard the well-being of all its participants. Virtual reality in engineering education plays an important role because students can acquire the concepts, knowledge, skills, and competencies more completely through immersive, multi-sensory, and credible environments arising as a flexible resource to improve engineering education in a post covid era.The use of virtual reality in the teaching-learning process is an innovation in teaching didactics and constitutes a very important opportunity to guarantee quality in the training of future engineering students. In parallel, the technological advances brought about by the industrial revolution that is taking place have increased the levels of complexity in terms of cost, product design, innovation, implementation, performance evaluation, to name a few.