Beyond Zoom: XR for Teaching and Research in the COVID-19 Era

XR—a catchall term that includes augmented and virtual reality and spatial and pervasive computing—holds potential and challenges for educational use under pandemic conditions. On August 7, Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania held a conference to explore this potential and the challenges. This session is a short compilation of the full conference, available at https://dartgo.org/covid-xr-conf.

Explore areas where XR can mitigate the challenges of engaging with students remotely * Investigate new opportunities to apply XR technologies across remote, face-to-face, or hybrid environments * Apply the lessons of higher education’s sudden foray into mass remote teaching to other types of tools