Experience with the usage of virtual reality worlds about natural history in Slovenia

摘要

The virtual reality worlds on the web obviously present in many parameters a better tool for education as classical paper learning software. In its extreme, the electronic paper textbook can be included as a pdf file. The interactivity and ease to transport, copy and adapt such material make it very practical. In addition it is more durable than paper because it can be easily reproduced. We produced a software package “Cell-Tissue-Body” teaching biology in the secondary and primary schools in Slovenia. The Ministry of education supported this project and it is free to obtain. We discuss here first the advantages and disadvantages of the electronical textbooks, then the difficulties when implementing them in our schools and finally our thoughts how to overcome the possible difficulties in future updates of this and other projects.