Category: Learning Design and Technology

Students use AR-enhanced images of a Japanese beetle to document and classify the insects’ characteristics.

Lowell’s collaborative team develops XR/AR tech to assist teachers, engage students in science learning

How can instructors better teach science, specifically taxonomy and classification? A collaborative Purdue University team created innovative Extended Reality (XR) and Augmented Reality (AR) instructional materials and resources to help teachers and to enhance student learning and engagement. Students use...

Enhancing students’ training to handle radioactive materials more safely

Purdue University researchers have received a $50,000 internal grant from the University’s Innovation Hub to develop a Mixed Reality/Virtual Reality radiation safety training and assessment platform for students. The project is titled, “Development and Implementation of an Augmented Reality Assessment...

Combination graphic of Signe Kastberg, Jill Newton, Phil VanFossen, Jasmine Begeske, & Adrie Koehler-Blair

Five Education faculty honored as top teachers

Purdue University College of Education faculty continue to contribute to the university’s land grant mission by demonstrating excellence in the classroom. This fall, Purdue honored five Education faculty with two of Purdue’s top teaching honors. Three Education faculty were named to...

Lowell to receive AECT Best Practices Award for prospective instructor mentorship program

Strategic mentoring of new teaching faculty could allow online educational programs to grow and expand capacity, save money, and ensure that students receive high-quality instruction, according to Victoria Lowell, clinical professor of Learning Design and Technology (LDT) in the Purdue...

Science student examining 3D Insect image using AR application on an iPad

Emerging Technologies in Learning Design & Technology and Envision Center to hold extended reality workshops

Faculty from the Purdue University College of Education will lead a new, collaborative, three-part workshop series this fall on using emerging technologies in learning design and technology. Victoria Lowell, clinical professor of Learning Design and Technology in the College of...

Education, Nursing faculty collaborate on Dept. of HHS grant to improve graduate nursing education

Faculty members from the Purdue University College of Education, the School of Nursing and the College of Health and Human Sciences have received a U.S. Department of Health and Human Sciences Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grant...