Beyond the comprehensive nature of the redesign and the relatively small but important role of VR, I was specifically blown away by the engagement angle. Participating in the VR sessions and observing lab activities, I was struck by how much of my attention was directed toward the story.

Education-technology experts say the white paper from ASU’s EdPlus Action Lab affirms the university’s recent investment in virtual reality education and shows how virtual reality can be an effective tool to nurture complex reasoning skills in the age of generative artificial intelligence.

Arizona State University and Dreamscape Learn launched Arizona's first virtual reality mobile classroom—a 46-foot trailer—to provide middle schoolers with immersive science education, transforming them into field biologists solving problems in an alien ecosystem.

With access to Dreamscape, it’s a rising opportunity that would one day be accessible to all students, and that alone is enough to keep Rowan ahead of the game in allowing students to witness a new age of education.

“This is really about reimagining what a school and a school experience can be, and I think in education, we often forget that, because the students are in some sense obligated to be there, that we have them trapped and we have their attention,” Reibel says. “This technology has an amazing ability to help us rethink how we get students to care."

Long Beach City College to transform student learning through cinematic story-telling experiences, to better engage students and improve student success.