PVCE Media & Immersive week Teaching Commons

PVCE Media and Immersive: Drop in week & workshops

UNSW's Teaching Commons will have a Media and Immersive theme from 10-12 March (9am - 4pm). The focus will be on supporting staff in transforming their curriculum by incorporating educational media into their pedagogical practices.

Members of the team will be there to assist and share ideas on how educational media and immersive technologies can enhance student learning through explorative activities, experiential learning, embedded societal impact or leveraging future-focused technologies in your classes. Try VR applications, web-based simulations or innovations in film, interactive and streaming video.

Get on the front foot to explore innovation for your courses! Drop into the Teaching Commons for a chat between 10 - 12 March.

Learn more about the PVCE Media & Immersive team

PVCE Media & Immersive workshops

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Immersive workshop

PVCE Immersive team: Interactive workshop

Authoring for Icon

Wednesday 11 March, 2-4PM, In person

Presenters: PVCE Immersive team

Creating your own scenarios for our AI-driven immersive conversation sim.
The PVCE Media & Immersive team have developed Icon, a tool for students to roleplay specific scenarios as part of their learning. Icon presents a student with an AI-driven avatar in a scene and situation relevant to the course content either on the web or in VR. Students are already using Icon across the university in scenarios from Journalism interview practice and Medicine OSCE patient interactions to debates and client interviews.
Join us for a demo of the Icon experience and then work with the team to create and test your own scenario right there in the workshop.

Max 20 people - Please bring your laptop

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Media workshop

PVCE Media team: Interactive workshop

Thursday 12 March, 12-2PM, In person

Presenters: PVCE Media team

Join the PVCE Media team for an interactive workshop that blends evidence-based learning theory with practical strategies for integrating media into your pedagogical practices. We’ll explore how Cognitive Load Theory and the Theory of Multimedia Learning can inform the development of media content. Through discussions and hands-on activities, you’ll reflect on your own course and generate ideas for how to incorporate videos, animations, screencasts, immersive elements and other media tools in ways that support student learning without overwhelming them.

Walk away with practical examples, design tips aligned to cognitive and multimedia learning principles, and an action plan for enhancing your curriculum with purposeful and pedagogically grounded educational media.