Influence of the passing of the time on educational digital tools: perceived obsolescence

The educational technologies undergo a rapid process of obsolescence and, although at the didactic level they could remain as effective as the very first day of their creation, at a motivational level, they can generate a rejection by the students when they find them obsolete. This paper presents how the user experience (UX) in an interactive virtual platform (IVP) based on virtual reality can affect the teaching-learning process for which it was initially designed. The results reveal a progressive decrease in the appreciation by students regarding the level of motivation and the interactivity of the IVP, i.e., it evidences a clear process of obsolescence. In addition, this paper demonstrates how the updating of this IVP by means of a modern design favours the UX, recovering in the students the level of motivation reached before the obsolescence process began.