The virtual reality and education

Abstract

A completely new information environment has been created in the society since the beginning of the third millennium. It definitely influences thinking and activities of individuals. The cyber space with its new perspective of the organization of society, science, technology, production as well as education has been formed. The concept of cyber space is closely related to the virtual one. The authors of the paper focus on several connections linked between the notion of virtual and the infor-mation technologies and education. An example taken from their own research using virtual models for studying the development of children´s space visualization is also presented.