CLEAN Teleconference Call March 7, 2023
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Inspirit (www.inspiritvr.com) and the Stanford VR Lab with Aditya Vishwanath
Abstract: In a world where attention spans are dwindling down to an average of 8 seconds and Roblox and Tiktok are king, teachers and students deserve instructional tools that are designed to work with them instead of against them. Backed by the research conducted at Georgia Tech and Stanford University, Inspirit developed an immersive learning platform that combines the best of both 3D and VR instruction in a meaningful way. VR has been proven to improve student engagement, memory retention, & learning outcomes.
Bio: Aditya is an education technology researcher and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Inspirit, where he builds immersive 3D & VR tools for STEM education. He's also a doctoral researcher at Stanford University and works at the intersection of the learning sciences, media, and design. He has been awarded the Stanford Knight-Hennessy scholarship, the Georgia Tech 40 under 40 award, the SXSW EDU launch award, and was recently nominated to the 2022 Forbes Technology Council and the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Education. Aditya is also a social entrepreneur, and co-founded MakerGhat, a makerspace and incubator for youth from low-income communities in India, which now has a presence in over 6000 schools across the country. Previously, he worked with the Google Education team where he explored strategies to integrate low-cost virtual reality toolkits into curriculum. Aditya aspires to continue to nurture a career designing education technology for diverse learning environments around the world.
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