Blended Learning Through Blended Reality

By Linda Bush, Ph.D & Palak Bhandari

Smarthinking/Pearson & Bryn Mawr College

Format - 80 minute workshop time Description of HoloLens and field today (5-7 minutes)

Virtual Reality vs. Augmented Reality (5-7 minutes)

Demonstrate HoloLens Apps (5-7 minutes)

- Palak to upload 3D Objects to OneDrive for HoloLens

Divide into groups and explore with HoloLens (60 minutes)

What is the Microsoft HoloLens? ● Mixed, or augmented, reality

device

● Untethered wearable CPU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic_M6WoRZ7k

● 3D environment that coexists alongside reality

● Allows interaction with others and with surroundings

● Creates 3D simulated environment

● Isolated experience

Virtual Reality Augmented Reality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QFMPo5k6p0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4M6BTYRlKQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFkXplRXvRs

HoloLens Applications

Bryn Mawr College Leadership in the Liberal Arts Center (LILAC) STEM & Tech Intensives

Photos courtesy of Bryn Mawr College Communications

Contact Linda Bush

linda.bush@pearson.com

Executive Director, STEM, Healthcare,

and Program Development,

Smarthinking/Pearson Education

Palak Bhandari

pbhandari@brynmawr.edu

Post-baccalaureate Educational

Technologist, Bryn Mawr College

Photo courtesy of Bryn Mawr College Communications

mailto:linda.bush@pearson.com mailto:linda.bush@pearson.com mailto:pbhandari@brynmawr.edu mailto:pbhandari@brynmawr.edu