John Morelock
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About
John Morelock is an engineering education researcher whose work sits at the intersection of robotics, immersive technology, and undergraduate pedagogy. His scholarship focuses on how emerging technologies — particularly virtual reality and augmented reality — can be leveraged to enhance student motivation and learning outcomes in engineering programs. Through carefully designed pilot studies, Morelock has investigated how introducing robot programming to new engineering students shapes their engagement with the discipline, exploring the educational potential of both physical and virtual robotic platforms across critical application domains including defense, manufacturing, medicine, and exploration. His two most-cited works, published in 2024 and 2025, reflect a sustained commitment to understanding how immersive and simulation-based environments can serve as effective pedagogical tools in undergraduate engineering courses. By pairing virtual reality interfaces with robot control and programming tasks, Morelock's research addresses a pressing challenge in engineering education: making sophisticated, industry-relevant technologies accessible and motivating for students early in their academic journeys. Though his citation record is still developing — with each of his key works accumulating 3 citations — his focus on timely, applied questions positions him as an emerging voice in the growing field of technology-enhanced engineering education.
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- Virtual and Physical Robots in Engineering Education: A Study on Motivation and Learning with Augmented Reality
- Virtual Reality For Robot Control and Programming in Undergraduate Engineering Courses
- Augmented and Virtual Reality Experiences for Learning Robotics and Training Integrative Thinking Skills
- Applicability of Augmented and Virtual Reality for Education in Robotics
- Virtual Reality for Remote Controlled Robotics in Engineering Education
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