Development of a Survey Instrument to Measure Educators’ Preparedness for Creating Extended Reality Learning Modules

To facilitate the adoption of extended reality (XR) technologies in education, various interventions, such as XR technical skills training and user-friendly authoring toolkits, have been designed for educators. However, traditional assessment tools often fall short, primarily focusing on interventions’ outcomes, such as usability, rather than on educators’ acceptance and readiness. This study aimed to bridge this gap by developing a new metric that assesses educators’ preparedness for integrating XR technologies into their teaching practices. Forty-one participants completed the developed survey before and after creating XR lessons. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed two key factors: perceived XR authoring proficiency and perceived XR’s educational values. The developed survey can be utilized to capture educators’ perceptions of barriers and needs, providing practitioners with targeted feedback to enhance XR applications in educational settings.