Assignment 2-1: What is Immersive Education?

Here is a screenshot of Dr. Walsh initially describing what the Immersive Education initiative is and how he created it to provide education remotely to students who want to learn in this virtual atmosphere. He describes the changes that technology has undergone since he initially started this initiative and how it has helped him further achieve his mission.

Here is a presentation of how you can utilize virtual realities to be applied with learning. The presentation shows how you can take measurements of the ecosystem and virtually fast forward time to track the simulation over a "real" period of time. This is very intriguing to see how learning is and will be impacted more by the tools technological advances provide for us.

This is the professor going into a Q&A session where he addresses concerns that his audience has regarding the technological education initiative. Someone asks how everyone will have equal access to these virtual tools as difference in hardware can potentially be detrimental to the virtual learning experience. He explains that more and more virtual worlds are moving to be accessible in web browsers so that hardware will be less of a concern in accessing these worlds.

This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc