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Virtual Tourism as a Pedagogical Practice

2022; IGI Global; Linguagem: Inglês

10.4018/978-1-6684-3369-0.ch024

2475-6555

Sérgio Rafael Eliseu, Marta Noronha Sousa, Ãngela Berlinde, Mihaela Bogdan,

Museums and Cultural Heritage

Post-pandemic anxiety and potential new outbreaks of this and other diseases could be a push, started long ago with the explosion of low-cost mobile devices, for immersive technologies, such as augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality, to assert themselves as credible solutions in contrast to traditional ways of knowing the world. Effectively, these technologies already offer safe alternative ways to “travel” through continuous and uninterrupted interactive experiences for travelers who do not want to give up their own private space, safety, and health. However, this possibility brings with it new questions and challenges, mainly in terms of the development of these experiences, more specifically in the academic and pedagogical field. The authors analyze a project that articulates, in a transdisciplinary way, contents of several curricular units attended by Erasmus students around a VR experience of one of the most emblematic places in the region, the famous Castro of Monte Mozinho.