VR in Education

Episode 46-Jesse Schell on the Efficacy of VR Games for Learning

Hello Everyone, Welcome to another exciting episode of VR in Education.  In today’s episode, we are talking with Jesse Schell.  Jesse is a video game designer, author, distinguished professor at Carnegie Mellon University and CEO of Schell Games.  He is here today to talk about VR game design.

Episode 45- VR and E-Sports with Jesse Lubinsky

Hello Everyone, Welcome to another exciting episode of VR in Education.  In today’s episode, we are talking with Jesse Lubinsky who is the Chief Learning Officer of Ready Learner One. Ready Learner One is an innovative learning solutions provider with a wealth of knowledge and wisdom related to emerging technologies.  He is here today to talk more about his recent book “The E-Sports Playbook:  Empowering Every Learner Through Inclusive Gaming and Virtual Reality.  You can learn more about his work at https://readylearner.one/. 

Episode 44- Play2Speak: Using AI to Enhance English Speaking Skills in VR

Hello Everyone! Welcome to another exciting episode of VR in Education.  In today’s episode, we are talking with Giuseppe Fantigrossi who is the CEO of Play 2 Speak. Play 2 Speak offers a unique VR English learning program that uses AI and rich storytelling to advance user's English language skills.  He is here today to help us understand how this all works.  You can learn more about Play2Speak at http://play2speak.com/. 

Episode 43- The Importance of Inclusion and Accessibility in VR

Hello Everyone! Welcome to another exciting episode of VR in Education.  In today’s episode, we are talking with Thomas Logan who is the CEO of Equal Entry. Equal entry promotes inclusion and accessibility to people all over the world.  Thomas is here to talk to us about his role in educating people about designing experiences, especially in VR, for all groups of people.  You can learn more about Thomas and his work at https://equalentry.com/.  Additionally, Thomas can be found on twitter, @TechThomas and Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/techthomas/

Episode 42 - Brain Training in VR with EnhanceVR

Hello Everyone, Welcome to another exciting episode of VR in Education.  In today’s episode, we are talking with Amir Bozorgzadeh is the cofounder and CEO of Virtuleap. Virtuleap uses specialized virtual reality games to help improve cognitive health.  We are here today to talk with Amir about the full release of their VR application Enhance. You can learn more about Enhance and Virtuleap at https://virtuleap.com/.

Episode 41 - Cooperative Learning with Spaceteam VR

Hello Everyone, Welcome to another exciting episode of VR in Education.  In today’s episode, we are talking with Alex Earle, the community manager from Cooperative Innovations, a company that builds, and implements high-quality immersive tools to create worlds to play in, explore, learn from and share with others, regardless of sector or end-user.

Please have a look at Cooperative Innovations website to learn more, https://www.coopinnovations.co.uk/.

Episode 40- How to Parlay Deep Thinking in Social VR Spaces

Welcome to another wonderful episode of VR in Education. Today I want to narrow our focus on how we might leverage Social VR spaces as a tool to promote conceptual thinking and debates.

If you liked this episode and would like to learn more about leveraging VR as an immersive tool check out my self-paced course, https://immersivelearningandvr.teachable.com/p/an-introduction-to-vr-in-education.  You can also reach me on twitter @cfrehlichteach.

Episode 39-VR Games as Double Agents--From Outcast to Hero

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of VR in Education.   Today’s episode looks at how VR games might be thought of as double agents and by telling their story I hope to move them from outcasts in the world of learning to heroes.

Episode 38- Emphasizing Divergent Thinking with Sandbox Mode in VR Applications

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of VR in Education.  In today’s episode, I want to talk about the efficacy of structured (convergent) vs unstructured (divergent) learning experiences. 

Episode 37- How To Deal with Limited Numbers of Headsets in Your School

In this episode, I discuss a common question many teachers ask in a school situation, "what if I only have a few headsets for my large class?"  Although this is not ideal, I outline a few applications that can help you maximize your student engagement.  I hope you enjoy the episode.