Assignment 2-1: What is Immersive Education?

1. Professor Walsh describes some examples of Immersive Education. He notes that virtual worlds, learning games, simulations and full, augmented and mixed reality. Professor further explores on the virtual worlds with virtual aquarium tours.

2. Japanese home is made available for participants of the virtual world. In this image, we see a virtual museum exhibition. The museum is based on a real museum, Boston's Children's Museum. Virtual reality is created to allow its users to vicariously, yet realistically experience the reality in a virtual environment.

3. In this virtual world, science class is conducted. Students are offered with interactive tools in this virtual world to collect data regarding atmosphere and the ecosystems. The students are given tasks and missions in this virtual world, and such feature ensures students' engagements. Students and instructors are directly open for conversations and feedbacks.

4. Mr Fischer and other participating instructors at the Immersive Algebra forum stress the importance of virtual education; they believe the teachers and educators should definitely be aware of the implementation of virtual worlds into ordinary school curriculum, owing to the fact that our learning environment should be up to date, and as well as intriguing and awe-inspiring.

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