Deepen your use of VR and immersive technologies by designing, facilitating, and evaluating learning experiences that strengthen student understanding, support differentiation, and embed immersive learning sustainably across classrooms and programs.
This course supports educators and school leaders to implement immersive learning at a deeper, more intentional level—with a strong focus on safety, wellbeing, inclusion, and responsible use of emerging technologies. Designed for schools already exploring immersive learning, the course moves beyond introduction to address the real-world considerations that determine whether immersive practice is sustainable, ethical, and effective.
Participants examine how immersive learning impacts students cognitively, emotionally, and socially, with explicit attention to neuroplastic learning, neurodiversity, and student readiness.
The course explores how immersive environments can be designed to support diverse learners, reduce cognitive load, and provide differentiated pathways without fragmenting learning or increasing teacher workload.
A core focus of the course is safety and wellbeing in VR education. Educators engage with practical protocols for physical safety, emotional wellbeing, session design, and classroom management—ensuring immersive learning is implemented in ways that prioritise student autonomy, comfort, and inclusion. The course supports teachers to confidently manage VR spaces while maintaining strong duty-of-care practices.
The course also addresses AI in education, with a clear emphasis on responsible, bounded, and pedagogically sound use. Participants explore why many mainstream AI tools are poorly suited to school environments and how personal AI tutors—when embedded within immersive learning and governed by clear ethical boundaries—can support thinking without replacing it. Privacy, data security, assessment integrity, and teacher control remain central throughout. Using the i⁴M framework (Immersive, Instructional, Inquiry, Independent, Model), participants learn to design and evaluate immersive learning experiences that align with curriculum intent, assessment expectations, and cognitive science. The framework is applied as a practical tool to guide lesson design, student interaction, differentiation, and reflective practice.
Throughout the course, educators consider how immersive learning can be embedded consistently across classrooms and year levels, supported by shared language, clear implementation guidelines, and student training. Emphasis is placed on preparing students to engage with immersive technologies safely, confidently, and responsibly—building independence without dependency.
By the end of the course, participants will be equipped to implement immersive learning as a safe, inclusive, and defensible instructional approach—one that supports neurodiverse learners, maintains ethical standards, strengthens student thinking, and enables schools to move forward with confidence in an AI-enabled educational landscape.
This professional development is designed as an ongoing reference, not a one-off experience. Educators can return to the content at any time to refresh skills, revisit key concepts, or support classroom implementation as needs arise. Learning progress is tracked, and upon completion, participants receive a verifiable professional development certificate that can be used for formal PD records and reporting.
