Virtual Reality Educator

BUSN 0237

Minimum requirements

Before you decide to take an online course, it is a good idea to look over these minimum requirements to determine if you have or can acquire what you will need before you start the course. Here are a few ways to tell if you have what you need to take an online course:

Do you have access to a virtual reality headset with six degrees of freedom?
- E.g. Oculus Quest
Do you have access to a laptop or desktop computer, and an internet connection
- Smartphones and other mobile devices are not recommended for our online, remote-delivered courses.
Have you ever participated in a virtual meeting using a microphone and camera?
- E.g. WebEx, Zoom, Teams, Skype, Google Meet, FaceTime, etc.
Do you have a reliable internet connection that is fast enough for participating in virtual and virtual reality meetings?
Are you comfortable doing all of the following?
- Creating, editing and saving Word documents or other types of files
- Playing YouTube videos on your computer
- Downloading and listening to music on your computer
- Searching for information on the web
- Sending emails

Schedule

Your course is online from Monday, September 28, 2026 – Sunday, November 15, 2026. This is a blend of asynchronous and synchronous online learning with class schedules for live, virtual events for the Virtual Reality Educator course listed below.

Week 1: Sept 29 6pm – 7pm EST
Week 2: Oct 6 6pm – 7pm EST
Week 3: Oct 13 6pm – 7pm EST
Week 4: Oct 20 6pm – 7pm EST
BREAK
Week 5: Nov 3 6pm – 7pm EST
Week 6: Nov 10 6pm – 7pm EST

Course description

Participants in this course will learn about virtual, mixed, and augmented reality, collectively known as extended reality or XR, as a learning medium, and how to use it in their teaching practice. These experiential learning tools allow students to learn in contextually relevant environments, practice procedures with their hands, construct, repair, create, develop critical thinking skills or experience perspective taking. In other words, learners will explore XR’s ability to help students learn in the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains. It is important for educators to explore XR to develop an understanding of its pedagogical potential.

In this very fun and engaging course, we will experience spatial and social presence, discuss and explore various virtual reality contexts and worlds, and manipulate things with our virtual hands. The course takes approximately 18 hours to complete - 6 of those hours are live meetings, 2 via PC and 4 in virtual reality with the instructor.

Instructor

Rob Theriault is the author of The Future of Education is Experiential (not required reading) and is a recipient of the Virtual World Society’s Nextant Educator Prize as a global thought leader in the XR space.

Minimum requirements

Access to a virtual reality headset e.g. Meta Quest 2 or newer, Vive, Pico and internet connection
Access to a computer and an internet connection - smartphones are not recommended for our online, remote-delivered courses.
PC or tablet-based microphone and camera for MS Teams or other video conferencing tools.

Schedule

Week 1: Sept 29, 6pm – 7pm EST
Week 2: Oct 6, 6pm – 7pm EST
Week 3: Oct 13, 6pm – 7pm EST
Week 4: Oct 20, 6pm – 7pm EST
BREAK
Week 5: Nov 3, 6pm – 7pm EST
Week 6: Nov 10, 6pm – 7pm EST

Credits

Course Hours

For more information, please contact Continuing Education