A podcast dedicated to sharing and exploring the nature of immersive learning.
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece. In this episode, I speak with Georgios Gkoutis about this work "Teachers' Insights into Mixed Reality in Education: Challenges, Opportunities, and Limitations"
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece. In this episode, I speak with Stylianos Mystakidis & Christos Koulouris about a musuem-based AR game they've created. For more information about the game, check out https://youtu.be/DConVjy77pE?si=w08wTcAXXp5d2DJZ and researchgate.net/publication/405403725_Smart_Gamification_of_a_Museum_Exhibition_using_Augmented_Reality_and_Generative_Artificial_Intelligence. For more information about Christos, check out his LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/christos-koulouris-290889325
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece. In this episode, I speak with Vlasios Kasapakis about his work with cultural heritage and storytelling, along with his work with the XR Lab at the University of the Aegean.
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece. In this episode, I speak with Despoina Tsiafaki about her work on THRACE-CONNECT (Full Title: Unraveling Connections between Aegean and inland Thrace via the Rhodope mountains, through archaeological exploration and spatial technology, can be found at https://thraceconnect.athenarc.gr/en/main-page/). This project is implemented in the framework of H.F.R.I call “3rd Call for H.F.R.I.'s Research Projects to Support Faculty Members & Researchers” (H.F.R.I. Project Number: 23755).” To connect with the project, its LinkedIn is https://www.linkedin.com/company/thrace-connect
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece. In this episode, I speak with Thomas Varelas about his company Griffenware (https://griffinware.gr/en/). To connect with Thomas, his LinkedIn is https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-varelas-18844a83/
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece. In this episode, I speak with Aristos Protopsaltis, the CEO of DisruptEd. For more information about Aristos, check out his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aristidis-protopsaltis/. Also, check out one of the projects he's working on: SENSES - Science Education through Novel Teaching Strategies for Environmental Sustainability - https://www.sensesproject.eu/
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece. In this episode, I speak with Markos Mentzelopoulos about his work building an immersive AI-infused game to support students. If you want to see an example of the Virtual Markos in action, check out the slide at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1InzDusmMsTBwLh4ysLburAclXGSAt390/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116559213144539179221&rtpof=true&sd=true.
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece. In this episode, I speak with Greg Agriopoulos who's company Haptikos is doing some amazing work with mapping human hand movement through exoskeleton technology.
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece. In this episode, I speak with Dimitra Zacharia about her project to use immersive escape rooms to foster empathy.
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece. In this episode, I speak with Tassos Mikropoulos about his views on immersive learning technologies.
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece. In this episode, I speak with Georgia Polia about her work at VR Planet, particularly in regards to autism and alzheimers. For more information on her work, check out the links below:https://vrplanet.gr/https://youtube.com/@vr_planet?si=Qv7v5ovtw4iQNaLghttps://www.facebook.com/share/14w4oZbbEbW/
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece. In this episode I speak with Yiannis Hondrokoukis about his work with the Theater on the Move program (among other of his projects).
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece. In this episode I speak with Ioanna Ntavlourou and Ilias Stouraitis about their work with Homo Ludens, a really inventive company that's re-imagining what it looks like to tell stories connected to the city (https://homoludens.org/en/).
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece. In this episode I speak with Kelly Papadopoulou about her work at Pi-Tech. For more information about their work, check out the following video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VBhisSWOFPsA9TH8brkeepDJ8mhixuaJ/view
In this episode, I spoke with Dimitris Tolis https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitristolis/ CEO of Human Asset, https://www.humanasset.com/ and Stavros Katsaridis https://www.linkedin.com/in/stavroskatsaridis/, General Manager of DOTSOFT, https://dotsoft.gr/en/
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece. In this episode I speak with Effie Halivopoulou about her work "The Body Ego in the Digital Age"
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece. Today I speak with Angelos Amditis about his work leading the CirculAR App.
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece. Today I talk with Athanasios Christopoulos about his work with gamification and AR.
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece. Up today are the leadership team of the Hellenic IT Museum.
In conjunction with the ILRN conference, which starts later this week in Athens, I am hosting a limited series I'm calling "Immersive Learning in the Cradle of Western Civilization." I'll be talking with educators, developers, business leaders, museum leaders, and others from across Greece to highlight all of the amazing things that are happening in immersive learning in and around Greece.
In this episode, I speak with Maria Besiou about her work "IMMERSIVE LEARNING IN HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS THROUGH A VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATION"
In this episode, I speak with Daniella Terson de Paleville about her work "Virtual Reality for Reinforcing Neurophysiology Concepts among Graduate and Dental Students"
In this episode, I speak with Geoffrey Nguyen about his work "The Use and Perceptions of Virtual Reality Simulator Training for Ophthalmological Surgical Education." Follow Geoffrey on Instagram at @heygeoffrey
In this episode, I speak with Nadav Levy and Dario Winterton about their work "Integrating Virtual Reality into Cricothyrotomy Training: A Pilot Evaluation of Learner Confidence and Perceived Skills Transfer."
In this episode, I speak with Stefan Graser about his work "UXARclass: A Proposed Classification Taxonomy of Design Recommendations Toward Relevant UX Dimensions for Augmented Reality in Corporate Training"For more information about Stefan, check out the links below: Project website: https://uxarcis.ueq-research.org/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-graser-2486a91a0/
In this episode, I speak with Andrew Enaifoghe about his work "THE REVOLUTIONIZATION OF EDUCATION IN SOCIETY 5.0 - THE ROLE OF VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY IN CREATING IMMERSIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: LITERATURE REVIEW"For more information, check out Andrew's ResearchGate Link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew-Enaifoghe-2/researchAndrew's Short Bio: Dr. Andrew Enaifoghe is a multidisciplinary researcher specializing in public administration, governance, and sustainable development. His work explores inclusive governance, participatory democracy, and socio‑economic transformation in Africa. As an educator and Public Technologist, he has also contributed research to digital divide in education. He has authored over 100 peer‑reviewed publications, contributing significantly to African governance and development scholarship. He is a recipient of the Vice‑Chancellor's Research and Excellence Award for 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2024 in recognition of his exceptional research output. He has also engaged in international academic dialogue, including serving as a guest lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he presented on youth participation in Nigeria's #EndSARS movement. Beyond academia, Dr. Enaifoghe is known as an inspirational writer, preacher, and motivational speaker dedicated to promoting education, ethical leadership, and community empowerment.
In this episode, I speak with Jan-Oliver Kutza about his work "Utilization and Evaluation of Virtual Reality-based Interventions for the Training of Child Endangerment Assessment – A Scoping Review"
In this episode, I speak with Ruchi Sembey about their work "Considerations for VR Integration into Human-Centered Computing Education"
In this episode, I speak with Keith Jones, co-founder of Alchemy Worldwide and co-author of Provoke: The Art of Transformative Facilitation, which was shortlisted for UK Business Book of the Year in 2020.
I'm doing something a little different this week. Each day this week, a new episode with be released with a different doctoral student at Texas A&M talking about their work. Today is Blain Judkins.For more information about Blain, check out his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blainjudkins/
I'm doing something a little different this week. Each day this week, a new episode with be released with a different doctoral student at Texas A&M talking about their work. Today is Lara Soberanis.
I'm doing something a little different this week. Each day this week, a new episode with be released with a different doctoral student at Texas A&M talking about their work. Today is Kyper Bezanson.
I'm doing something a little different this week. Each day this week, a new episode with be released with a different doctoral student at Texas A&M talking about their work. Today is Kylee Friederichs.
I'm doing something a little different this week. Each day this week, a new episode with be released with a different doctoral student at Texas A&M talking about their work. Today is Graciela Camacho Fidalgo.
I'm doing something a little different this week. Each day this week, a new episode with be released with a different doctoral student at Texas A&M talking about their work. Today is Raquel Cabrera Araya.
I'm doing something a little different this week. Starting with a conversation with Edgar Rojas Muñoz about his doctoral students at Texas A&M. Each day this week, a new episode with be released with a different doctoral student talking about their work.
In this episode, I speak with Angelika Bikner & Osama Swidan about their work "I Got Rhythm—I Got Space: How Karim Generates an Epistemic Augmented-Reality Space While Exploring the Derivative"
In this episode, I speak with Stephen Abu and Enobong Obong about their work "A Systematic Review of Augmented and Virtual Reality for STEM Learning: Engagement, Cognitive Load, and Transfer Outcomes"
In this episode, I speak with Fransiskus Panca Junaiwan about his work "The utilization of augmented reality as tourism education digital-based to mitigate paper use"
In this episode, I speak with Mohamad Saab about his work
In this episode, I speak with Brennen Mills about his work "From classroom to mine site: Virtual reality simulation for career engagement in the mining construction sector" and I-VADE.
In this episode, I speak with Khalid Mohammed about his work "A systematic review of user perceptions and acceptance of virtual reality toward vocational training innovation." There were some connectivity issues, but overall the conversation was good.
In this episode, I speak with Mageswaran Sanmugam about his work "Chinese teachers' perspectives on opportunities and challenges of immersive virtual reality technology in higher art education"
In this episode, I speak with Roger Lo about his work "Virtual Reality Education, Research, and Practice at the Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Affiliated School"
In this episode, I speak with Devy Ramadhani about her work "Evaluation of augmented reality applications as an interactive learning media for the female reproductive system"
In this episode, I speak with Antony Prakash about his work "Evaluating the effectiveness of immersive VR on performance and user experience in STEM learning: a media-comparison study"
In this episode, I speak with Stefania Serafin about her work "Virtual reality to create positive and timely awareness of hearing loss in middle-and secondary school."For more information about material that was covered in the episode, check out the links below:w1.wavw3.wavw4.wav Here is a link to the paper we discussed: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165587625004483 And here's her linkedin profile if people want to get in touch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefaniaserafin/
In this episode I speak with Kylee Friederichs, Dorothy Chan, and Edgar Rojas-Munoz about their work "Ocean of Memories: Raising Marine Awareness through Creativity and Augmented Reality"
In this episode, I speak with Robin Couture-Matte about his work "Task-based Language Teaching and High-immersive Virtual Reality: An Investigation of Children's Use of Scaffolding"
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Farah Azhar, Lecturer in Medical Education & MHPE Program Coordinator (Gulf Medical University, UAE). She explains how low-cost virtual escape rooms, learner analysis, and cognitive centered educational games strengthen learning and formative assessment. You can connect with her via LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dr-farah-azharTitles and links of the relevant articles: Launching Cost-effective Virtual Escape Rooms as a Tool for Formative Assessment — https://doi.org/10.2174/0102506882325537240612062345 Maximizing Engagement in Educational Games Through Learner Analysis — https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-024-02127-4 From Feeling Engaged to Being Engaged: Cognitive-Centered Gamification — https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-025-02509-2
In this episode I speak with Jumanh Atoum about her work "From Sight to Skill: A Surgeon-Centered Augmented Reality System for Ureteroscopy Training"
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