Meet & Eat | VR in Education - What is holding you back? | 27 February
27 February 2024 12:45 till 13:30 - Location: Teaching Lab - By: Teaching Academy | Add to my calendar
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VR in Education - What is holding you back?
with Martin Skrodzki
Multimedia has a secure place in all our education settings. We show YouTube videos, have students play (serious) games, and refer to podcasts that add to our lectures. Virtual reality (VR) applications promise to include all such multimedia settings and even enable the students to train and act in places that are otherwise inaccessible, e.g., a shipyard. However, VR is not at all established in the classrooms of TU Delft. In this session, we will investigate why that is and what we could do about that.
We will start by looking at some "lighthouse" projects - successful VR projects that are used in education at TU Delft and elsewhere. These already enable the analysis of success factors for educational VR projects. Yet, there are only a few such lighthouses. They seem to be tall, expensive, and a lot of work. Therefore, we will proceed to discuss together: What are the main factors that currently prevent the use of VR in the classroom? What would be needed to overcome these hurdles? And who is interested in driving this topic forward, to further improve education at TU Delft?
Timeline
12:30-12:45 Walk in & lunch
12:45-13:30 Session: VR in Education with Martin Skrodzki (recorded)
13:30-14:30 Informal discussion and networking + XR possibilities in education by New Media Centre
About the Speaker
Martin Skrodzki studied mathematics and computer science in Dortmund (Germany), Laredo (TX, USA), and Berlin (Germany), where he graduated with a Dr. rer. nat. in 2019 at the Freie University Berlin. Afterward, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Mathematics (ICERM) at Brown University (RI, USA), the RIKEN institute (Japan) funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, and TU Delft (Netherlands) funded by the Walter-Benjamin-Program of the German Research Foundation.
He is currently an assistant professor with a special focus on education in the group of Computer Graphics and Visualization, at the department of Intelligent Systems (INSY), faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science (EEMCS) at TU Delft.
His research interests include the use of illustrations in mathematics (education), visualization of high-dimensional data, discrete geometry processing as well as interactions between mathematics and arts.
