Celebrating the Rich Landscape of Adult Learning through Immersive Learning Project
Session Abstract
What’s in a name, why is this community center or library named after this person? Investigate the history behind this individual. Sources like Ancestry, library archives, and oral histories can help you gain knowledge that may encourage youth to reenact this person’s life. Let’s celebrate adult learning through immersive learning.
Target Audience
Adult learners; community leaders, youth, non-traditional students, instructors,
Session Description
The use of immersive learning to foster discussion, discover family histories, and promote community involvement. It provides a structured and critical review, reflection, and analysis of individual, collective, and organizational cultural identities, race as a social construction, historical inequalities, the history and impact of structural racism, the implications for race relations, and strategies for promoting inclusion and civic engagement through family and history research, presentations, oral storytelling, and/or the development of traveling exhibits.
The use of immersive learning centrally implies a shift from considering and designing learning tasks to choreographing learning experiences as a whole, mediated by structured and semi-structured social interactions, according to De Freitas, Rebolledo-Mendez, Liarokapis, Magoulas, & Poulovassillis (2010).
De Freitas, S., Rebolledo‐Mendez, G., Liarokapis, F., Magoulas, G., & Poulovassilis, A. (2010). Learning as immersive experiences: Using the four‐dimensional framework for designing and evaluating immersive learning experiences in a virtual world. British Journal of Educational Technology,41(1), 69-85.