The document discusses emerging immersive learning technologies like augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) and their potential applications in education. It notes that Oral Roberts University has become a leader in this area through its technology, buildings, thought leadership, and the Global Learning Center, which features classrooms, labs, and studios for AR/VR. The center has helped increase student engagement, placement rates, and other metrics. Immersive technologies allow for flipped and global education models that can reach many more learners around the world.

1. Oral Roberts University
Educating Whole Leaders for the Whole World

2. The Emergence of Immersive Learning
and the Metaverse
Michael L. Mathews

3. Agenda
The Human
Sh ifts
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T h e
E d u c a t i o n a l
S h i f t s
B a c k g ro u n d
o f
E m e r g i n g
Te c h n o l o g y
1
Understand U
2
Simplify S
3
Automate A
“Don’t Limit Your challenges; Challenge Your Limits” ~Jeremey Dunn
The future is ours to see

4. Perspective
• 1970s – 1990s; IBM, Apple, Microsoft were vying for the personal
computer space. They each had a few hundred million dollars. They all
ended up winning in various ways and influenced the world as we know it.
• 2015 – 2021; Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon are all playing in the
immersive learning/metaverse space. The difference is they all have a few
trillion dollars and have proven this space during the past 5-6 years.
• ORU has become a clear leader in this space on more fronts than most
realize. (technology, buildings, thought-leadership, awards, credibility,
spiritual reasoning).

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In ZOOM

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InVR

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Anna Dream Brush and Nathan Hale Principal Sheila Riley

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Tulsa Based Academic Experts leveragingVRTransformation
Calculus in a Fun Way A Principal Enjoying Interaction
Gamification

10. MINUT
E
This is what Happens In
An
Innovate4EDU
195 Nations Educated
30 Million Students
600 Million Quizzes
400 Petabytes of Data
5 Trillion
Seconds
recorded
65 Foreign Languages
2021

11. C
o
Connected 8-year old in
Houston, TX to Bradenton, FL

12. FDA – Approves Virtual Reality over opioids for lower
chronic back-pain

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The Heart gives off a Frequency and all frequency
produces a ‘rhythm, beat which is Music’

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The heart hears first and speaks to the brain
more than the brain speaks to the heart

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16. Whole Person Humersive Learning
Immersive Aspect
• Augmented Reality
• Virtual Reality
• Smart spaces
• MQ Mirror/AI
• Smart Glasses etc.
Human Aspect
• Intellectual Intelligence (IQ)
• Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
• Spiritual Intelligence (SQ)
• Mirrored Intelligence (MQ)
+ WHOLE HUMERSIVE LEARNING
FOR THE WHOLE WORLD
=

17. Instantly Reaching around the World
To the frequency to/from the rest
of the world
From inside the frequency of the human
heart and mind
Intelligence

18. Smart Mobile Access
The Complete Student Record and
Student Experience
Students and systems must
Co-exist in a intelligently
designed manner
Intelligent
Choices
Uninterrupted
Service
Predictive
With Self-Service
Student Information
System
Learning Management
System
Facilities
Classrooms
F
E
D
A
B
C
Systems
Most Higher
Education systems
are fundamentally
20-40 Years old
Vote with their feet
Can smell and taste
a good campus
experience
Students

19. D2L
(LMS)
Salesforce
Pardot
(CRM)
Banner
(SIS)
Types of
End User
Transactiona
l
Layer
Utility
Layer
Email
Viewable
Extract
Layer
Phone Text Kaltura
IM
ChatBOT
ecommerc
e
Argos
The Student Experience
Immersive Learning
Spreadsheets
Viewable
Intelligent
Meta Layer Deans. Provosts,
VPs, President
Individual
Contributors
Managers
Directors
Individual
Contributors
Touchnet
Krono
s
ZOOM
Office 365 - Students Attend
Exchange/Staff and Faculty
VR/AR
Mixed
Reality
Classroo
m
Tech
Chrome
River
Everyone
IPEDS
Access Database Academia
ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY
Campus Systems

20. Virtual Reality Education System (VRES)
A Micro-innovation for the future SmartCampus designs
All Programs
All Realities
All Devices
Integrated
Across All
Systems
Augmented, Virtual, Panoramic, 360
Degree, Blended, Avatars, etc.
Taking all Realities in Educational Media
and making them seamless, accessible,
and searchable across all online programs
and courses.
Allowing all new realities to be used on all
personal, group, and classroom devices
Integrated
Across all
Emerging
Technologies
Pathway to future success leveraging all
technologies in a unified manner.
LMS, Student Information System, Career
Planning, Customer Relations System
Filter by
Level 3
Level 2
Level 1

21. A Peek Inside Engagement
Immersive
Learning

22. The Global Learning Center
Michael L. Mathews
Flipping
the University
around the world

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Definitions – Flipped Classroom
Flipped classroom is an instructional
strategy and a type of blended learning
that reverses the traditional learning
environment by delivering instructional
content, often online, outside of
the classroom. It moves activities,
including those that may have
traditionally been considered homework,
into the classroom.

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Definitions – Flipped University
Flipped University is an educational model
that leverages the best of ‘fluid’ technology,
and education to meet the needs of a ‘fluid’
world from one central location.
OneCampus™ that is flipped around the
world for the betterment of humanity.
About Oral Roberts University About the Global Learning Center

25. Meta (Higher Level)
Verse (Universe)

26. Digital overlay (higher level)
of our current world

27. 2020
Pandemic
2020
VR Overlay

28. Extended
Reality (XR)
is the new
greenscreen
of digital
overlay.
Mandalorian Overlay

29. The largest gathering of engaged humanity
27.5 Million Global Engaged Players

30. No more bricks in the
walls of education
ing into Orphanages
REMOVING THE BARRIERS AND BRICKS AND

31. ing into Pakistan
REMOVING THE BARRIERS AND BRICKS AND MORTAR

32. No more
bricks in
the walls
of global
education
ing into Pakistan Graduation Services

33. Allowed 100% of ORU Faculty and Staff to Just Do
It
47,201 Virtual Classroom Sessions
16,698,799 Recorded Classroom Minutes
262,161 Attendees
145 Nations
Reached
0 Downtime/Interruptions

34. Engaging Students with
Purpose and Design

36. Produces Award Winning Collaboration with Education and Industry

37. Results of Engagement with seamless tech and processes
Category (2016) (2020
Student engagement Unranked 5th in Nation
Placement of all students 88% 99.4%
Online Enrollment 385 1,005
Traditional Enrollment 3,460 5,020
Certificate Enrollment 300 2,230
Student Retention (measured Fall Freshman to Spring Freshman) 73% 92.6%
Student Satisfaction Survey 90% 98%
Faculty technology engagement 65% 95%
Access to AVR Learning Environments 40 300,000
Number of Countries Reached 89 116

38. Virtual Reality
Virtual reality (VR) is an artificial,
computer-generated simulation or
recreation of a real life environment or
situation. It immerses the user by
making them feel like they are
experiencing the simulated reality
firsthand, primarily by stimulating their
vision and hearing.

40. Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that
layers computer-generated enhancements
atop an existing reality in order to make it
more meaningful through the ability to interact
with it. AR is developed into apps and used on
mobile devices to blend digital components
into the real world in such a way that they
enhance one another, but can also be told
John.phillips@starbucks.com; johnphillips@starbucks.com
John.phillips@starbucks.com; johnphillips@starbucks.com

41. “The potential for VR to help us understand
and transform ourselves and the world around
us is limitless. It is crucial that the VR industry
comes together in these formative years to
fully leverage this potential for social good,”
~ Forbes, Nov 2017
The Potential

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AVR First Technology to achieve Blooms Taxonomy

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In ZOOM

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InVR

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Anna Dream Brush and Nathan Hale Principal Sheila Riley

48. 48
Tulsa Based Academic Experts leveragingVRTransformation
Calculus in a Fun Way A Principal Enjoying Interaction
Gamification

49. MINUT
E
This is what Happens In
An
Innovate4EDU
195 Nations Educated
30 Million Students
600 Million Quizzes
400 Petabytes of Data
5 Trillion
Seconds
recorded
65 Foreign Languages

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The Heart gives off a Frequency and all frequency
produces a ‘rhythm, beat which is Music’

52. 52
The heart hears first and speaks to the brain
more than the brain speaks to the heart

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54. Whole Person Humersive Learning
Immersive Aspect
• Augmented Reality
• Virtual Reality
• Smart spaces
• MQ Mirror/AI
• Smart Glasses etc.
Human Aspect
• Intellectual Intelligence (IQ)
• Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
• Spiritual Intelligence (SQ)
• Mirrored Intelligence (MQ)
+ WHOLE HUMERSIVE LEARNING
FOR THE WHOLE WORLD
=

55. Instantly Reaching around the World
To the frequency to/from the rest
of the world
From inside the frequency of the human
heart and mind
Intelligence

56. Virtual Reality Education System (VRES)
A Micro-innovation for the future SmartCampus designs
All Programs
All Realities
All Devices
Integrated
Across All
Systems
Augmented, Virtual, Panoramic, 360
Degree, Blended, Avatars, etc.
Taking all Realities in Educational Media
and making them seamless, accessible,
and searchable across all online programs
and courses.
Allowing all new realities to be used on all
personal, group, and classroom devices
Integrated
Across all
Emerging
Technologies
Pathway to future success leveraging all
technologies in a unified manner.
LMS, Student Information System, Career
Planning, Customer Relations System
Filter by
Level 3
Level 2
Level 1

57. VR AR POSSIBILITIES
From Phone to Dome – Immersive
Learning
Holographic
3D Displays
Immersive
Displays
Interact
Gesture AR/VR Glasses
Mobile AR/VR

58. AVR and Immersive Systems
Simplicity – Phone to Dome Solution
AVR Design Concept

59. A Repository – Library
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60. With Categories and Filters
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Functionality and Capacity
10 class rooms, six distance education rooms, one multiple
purpose room with seating for 750, one recording studio,
one AVR Lab, one AVR programming room; 12 offices,
four conference rooms, two greenrooms and one make-up
room.

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GLC InteractiveView - Classrooms

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GLC InteractiveView - AVR

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Student Designs in AVR

66. Transforming Education

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71. Global Awards

72. Samples of AVR

73. Samples and Future Look-up
https://works.bepress.com/michael-mathews/

74. AVR Demonstration

75. Future Possibilities

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GlobalTravel intoVirtual Worlds with AI

77. Questions and Answers