Abstract
To enhance the human resources required for national development to cope with the change, countries in the world have positively invested in education, as national education in the future is necessary to cultivate new-generation citizens with new traits and abilities to cope with the possible impacts and challenges in the new century. For this reason, the education reform wave sweeps many countries. The experiential learning model in experiential education nowadays leads profit and non-profit organizations in the business community, education, and social worker groups to the alternative education trend. Various experiential learning curricula are therefore spread. Taking social workers in southern Taiwan as the research objects, a total of 227 social workers are preceded the 15-week (3 h per week for a total of 45 h) experimental research with the application of virtual reality to experiential education. The research results summarize that (1) experiential education with virtual reality would affect self-efficacy, (2) experiential education with virtual reality would affect learning motivation, and (3) self-efficacy reveals remarkably positive effects on learning motivation. According to the results, it is expected to increase the interaction among the social workers through the learning activity and internalize the experience in the practical learning process of communication, problem solving, and extrinsic interaction for the application to the work to achieve a better life.
Highlights
In the 21st century, people are in the era with rich information, advanced technology, rapidly changing society, convenient life, and close international relationship, but fierce international competition
To enhance the human resources required for national development to cope with such changes, countries in the world have positively made a huge investment in education as it is necessary for future national education to cultivate new-generation citizens with the new traits and abilities to cope with the possible impacts and challenges in the new century
The effects of the application of virtual reality to experiential education on the self-efficacy and learning motivation of social workers are discussed in this study, expecting to increase the interaction among the social workers through such learning activity and internalize the experience in the practical learning process of communication, problem solving, and extrinsic interaction to the work to achieve the better life
Summary
In the 21st century, people are in the era with rich information, advanced technology, rapidly changing society, convenient life, and close international relationship, but fierce international competition. The above-mentioned experiential education covers excitement, uncertainty, reality, perceived risk, effort, and mutual effect with the natural environment so that the enterprises change or adjust the past taught courses in the personnel training into experiential education curricula to increase the fun. In this case, the effects of the application of virtual reality to experiential education on the self-efficacy and learning motivation of social workers are discussed in this study, expecting to increase the interaction among the social workers through such learning activity and internalize the experience in the practical learning process of communication, problem solving, and extrinsic interaction to the work to achieve the better life
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