Virtual / Augmented Reality in Education

Sure, both Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are pretty hip topics these days in education...especially in Higher Education with the obvious goal to make online learning more 'realistic' and thus appealing to a greater number of potential 'students' (aka customers). Here are some useful sources related to VR and AR:

• Kathy Schrock has a nice compilation and discussion of tools and resources at Virtual Reality in the Classroom and at Augmented and Virtual Reality in the Classroom.
• Audry Watters offers a much more critical view and history at (Marketing) Virtual Reality in Education: A History.
• Still - let's be honest: VR is cool and The Garden as a Story Map and in Virtual Reality is a great example.
• Wearables in Education looks at some of the current tools available.

Finally, Virtual Worlds and Augmented Reality for STEM Labs and teaching (STEM) labs online - that's for many the 'Holy Grail' of online education = finding a way to outsource these resource-intensive science labs for non-science majors that - let's be real - nobody actually cares about.

Here's the future when AR 'blends' with real reality.

HYPER-REALITY from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.