The New Virtual Classroom
May 22nd, 2023
“Students don’t respond to things the way they did before COVID … We’re in a place where we have to completely rethink how we deliver courses.” Ali Arya, a researcher in the CSIT’s Interactive Media Group, has been working on virtual environments for educational purposes for nearly 15 years. AR and VR platforms can be used to teach students in pretty much any discipline, including technical STEM fields.
Troy Anderson, a Sprott researcher, is using an incredibly lifelike and life-sized holographic image inside a touchscreen display unit, to put the teacher in a classroom thousands of kilometres away. It allows both students and teachers to see each other and interact almost as if they were at the same place. These holograms can prove more effective than an online class setting.