Shani Smith

The costs may be a deterrent. 

Carolyn Farrell

In Nursing education we already use high fidelity manikins to simulate various disease processes and test student ability to recognize signs and symptoms. We are using a "virtual hospital" to provide students with safe practice situations before their face to face experience with patients.  These tools have created opportunities for enhanced learning and also serve to improve student confidence.

Thomas Thompson

I would like to use VR and AR to help bring Engineering and Architecture more alive for my students.

Jonathan Juracko

Teachers can utilize multiple realities to teach their students important content.

Amelia Robinson

There are three types of "realities" available, including Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Realit, (AR), and Mixed REality (MR), a blend of the first two. While these technologies can be immersive and engaging, several downsides are identified. First, while performance increases at the outset, the novelty may wear off and it is not clear that learning is actually enhanced. the technologies and development to produce AR, VR or MR can be expensive or altogether unavailable. Students are also susceptible to illness or injury from using these, and aside from this course, I have been told that they can create siezures in students prone to that. All of this may leave companies liable for "training injuries." While these technologies are used successfully in healthcare, real estate, marketing, and military applications, I don't feel the time is right to being using these for virtual learning, due to the expense and labor-intensive development without evidence that it can provide learning outcomes.

Rosalind Carter

I teach cosmetology and this would be an exciting application to use. I hope to find software that I can implement in my program.

Mario Garcia

I have recently looked into the augmented reality aspect that broadcat journalism and television production has been using in their broadcasts. I would love to apply this to my curriculum in some shape or form. As a secondary CTE teacher, I can see certain obstacles that mey get in the way like cost and technology. This is the way of the future and I strongly believe that with the changes with online distance learning due to the recent pandemic, it is a must to move forward with the various realities that industry is already using to prepare our students for their futures.