Authoring Educational 360° Models

Abstract

The continuous progress of 360° technologies in recent years has considerably reduced the effort required for creating 360° models. Educational 360° models may now be authored by instructors themselves. However, the quality and usability of 360° models still depend significantly on experience gained from previous authoring of 360° models. Thus, this article summarizes the experience gained during authoring of eleven 360° models from 2018 to 2022 for higher education in environmental engineering. The experiences are structured following a process model inspired by Wohl 2019. Four cameras and four software packages have been used for authoring the eleven 360° models. Based on the eleven 360° models, authoring principles and generalizable experiences are provided to guide the selection of approaches and design elements, as well as hardware and software equipment, for authoring of 360° models.