Immersive learning, tested against real classrooms.
VR in Education treats virtual reality as a teaching tool that needs planning, purpose, and follow-through. Recent conversations range from aged care and browser-based VR to managed headset support, immersive storytelling, career exploration, and debates over 3DOF versus 6DOF learning.
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VR in Education follows virtual reality after the demo ends. The show is less interested in spectacle than in whether immersive tools can be used with care, structure, and purpose. Recent episodes keep circling the same practical tension. A headset can create presence, but teaching still depends on preparation, facilitation, reflection, and access. Conversations with Colin Putze connect VR in aged care to memory, engagement, and shared experience. The educational link comes through the before-and-after work around the experience, especially the discussion that happens once the headset is off. Other episodes focus on quality. Dr. Erica Bathurst-Cates discusses immersive learning through the lens of efficacy, alignment, and decision-making for teachers who are newer to VR. Greg Fedor’s Portal VR conversation shifts attention toward browser-based access and asks what remains valuable when the headset is removed. That question matters. The show repeatedly treats accessibility as part of learning design, not an optional extra. Reboot Imagine brings the operational side into view, with Laura Pisa and Jonathan Chavez talking through managed support, headset fleets, logs, updates, and the realities of keeping VR working in schools. Jay Schnoor’s episode turns toward adoption at events and conferences, where curiosity has to become action. Ryan D'Souza and Thikran Mateo bring a more serious register, connecting immersive storytelling with education, advocacy, empathy, and the Yazidi community. Dave Dolan’s appearance adds a debate over 3DOF and 6DOF, with attention to simplicity, equity, and active learning. Matthew Chossie’s Career View XR conversation places immersive media inside career exploration for students. Across these episodes, the show treats VR as a medium that needs context. It can support wonder, but wonder is not the whole job. It can lower barriers, but only if the design and support system account for real classrooms. The result is an education-technology show with a grounded, implementation-minded point of view.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants VR education discussed through lesson design, accessibility, deployment, and student experience rather than product hype. It also fits educators and learning teams comparing immersive tools for practical use.
What sets it apart: The show keeps the classroom workflow in view: planning before VR, guidance during it, and reflection after it. Similar education-tech conversations often stop at possibility; this one spends time on support systems, headset constraints, and whether the learning experience is actually usable.
VR in Education will provide tips and explore topics related to using immersive Virtual Reality in the classroom.
The headset comes off; Craig wants to know what your students do next.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A measured guide to deciding when VR deserves a place in the lesson plan.
VR in Education keeps its focus where it belongs: not on the headset, but on what makes immersive learning worth using in a classroom. Dr. Erica Bathurst-Cates joins the discussion through Pearson's work on learning efficacy and its partnership with Meta, framing VR as something…
A thoughtful look at VR as a prompt for connection, not just an experience inside a headset.
VR in Education finds a grounded way into virtual reality by focusing less on the headset itself and more on what surrounds it. Colin Putze, founder of Silver Adventures, talks about building shared experiences with older adults that can stir memory, connection, and engagement.
A thoughtful look at whether VR's learning value holds when the headset comes off.
Portal VR gives VR in Education a useful point of tension: if a browser can stream a VR experience and still let users work with controllers, the headset's role in learning becomes less settled.
A grounded look at the support systems that keep school VR deployments usable.
VR adoption in schools often depends on what happens after the headsets arrive. Laura Pisa, COO and co-founder of Reboot Imagine, and Jonathan Chavez, also co-founder, focus on the managed support work that makes classroom use possible: tracking serial numbers in MDM, reading…
A survivor-centered case for using VR to teach the human cost of ignorance, hate speech, and extremism.
VR enters the classroom here as a tool for human rights education, led by Ryan D'Souza, a human rights advocate and immersive storytelling producer, and Thikran Mateo, a Yazidi genocide survivor helping bring the work into schools.
Classroom practice, school change, and AI with purpose.
Media literacy, tested against real feeds.
Business stories with practical connective tissue.
Edtech talk with classroom sense and snacks.
Free classroom tech, tested by a teacher.
Classroom tech, explained teacher to teacher.
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VR in Education features Colin Putze, founder of Silver Adventures, explaining how aged-care residents use VR for shared experiences, memory recall, and engagement.
Greg Fedor uses VR in Education to argue that PortalVR can run VR experiences on a browser with tracked controllers instead of a headset.
["VR in Education episode 166, 'VR Without the IT Headache: Managed Support for the Modern Classroom,' centers on Laura Pisa and Jonathan Chavez of Reboot Imagine explaining how school VR survives after the headsets are purchased.", "Craig presses them on ownership, and both guests say schools need an internal champion, a contact chain for IT and content vendors, and a plan for storage, charging, batteries, and OS updates.", "Jonathan ties his VR interest to an HTC Vive at a Houston, Texas music festival with Bjork and a later Google Daydream session in Dallas, Texas that used Street View and Spotify.", "The most concrete examples come from a Florida visit to a Prisms deployment with more than 600 headsets, controller-battery churn, and fleet-wide problems that can come from a single update."]
Craig interviews Jay Schnoor about effective strategies for driving adoption of VR in education through immersive learning events.
VR in Education episode 164 spotlights Nobody's Listening, a 12-minute VR project set in Kocho and Sinjar around the Yazidi genocide.
A debate between Craig and Dave Dolan on the efficacy of 3DOF vs 6DOF VR headsets in education.
Craig interviews Matthew Chossie, CEO of Career View XR, about using virtual reality to provide students with immersive career exploration experiences.
An interview with Will Kirkpatrick, founder of Tactile VR, discussing how virtual reality and AI are used to improve nursing education and address clinical gaps.
Kyle Morrand discusses the importance of play in VR and learning, sharing his journey from a side business to a leader in immersive technology.
Anita Wielgosz discusses the power of 3D modeling in education, sharing her journey from traditional sculpting to virtual reality.