Innovative tools for teaching geosciences: the case of immersive videos

Guglielmina A. Diolaiuti¹, Manuela Pelfini², Maurizio Maugeri¹, Roberto Ambrosini¹, Davide Fugazza¹, Veronica Manara¹, Daniela Scaccia¹, Luca Citron¹, Massimiliano Franceschini¹, Michela Panizza¹ & Antonella Senese^1
1Environmental Science and Policy (ESP) Department, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.
²Earth Sciences Department "A. Desio", Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.
Corresponding author e-mail: guglielmina.diolaiuti@unimi.it
 

Innovative digital tools such as immersive videos or augmented reality can prove to be useful for university teaching of geosciences, which allow for the exploration of space, the vision of places, landforms and landscapes and the understanding of the ongoing processes even without having to carry out educational field excursions. These technologies -initially introduced and tested during the COVID Sars pandemic restrictions- can now be used to allow a large number of students to observe the territory and its features without the physical, economic and temporal limitations that instead characterize normal field teaching. In this contribution, we present the immersive teaching experience carried out at the University of Milan starting from 2019 and the students’ appreciation of it.

innovative digital tools, immersive videos, geo-education, glacial landscape.