Are Panoramic Education Lectures a Distraction?

Education in this 21st century has come a long way and it has seen several innovative methods in reaching its learners. In recent years, the development of IT and web services made it possible to reach a remote audience. Several platforms and academicians have started to adopt e-learning methodologies in a view of reaching massive learners across the globe. As a current trend, all these e-learning platforms are using videos as their major medium of content delivery and these videos are generally ‘flat.' Another advancement in recent years is the 360° panoramic videos that are gaining a lot of popularity in the field of entertainment. This paper summarises the attitude of the learners and how the 360° video's environment influences them when a panoramic video lecture is used for content delivery that replaces the traditional 2D flat educational videos.