Designing for Learning and Assessment in XR

Dr. Robb Lindgren is a Professor of Educational Psychology and Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has affiliate appointments at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the Informatics program in the School of Information Systems (iSchool), the Center for Immersive Computing. Robb currently directs a cross-campus research initiative focused on Technology-Enhanced Learning. Dr. Lindgren has been PI of several NSF-funded research projects examining how people learn in technology-enhanced environments. He and his lab have created prototypes for several STEM learning games and simulations, and they are currently working with local schools and museums to co-design and iterate on several novel XR platforms.
 

Robb’s research examines theories and designs for learning within emerging media platforms, including XR. He seeks to understand how XR can be used to construct new identities and generate new perspectives that lead to stronger comprehension of complex ideas, particularly in STEM content areas. His work investigates how physical, body-based interactions with learning content can facilitate new understandings, and XR can be effectively designed to take these types of interactions as input. He is also interested in how digital technologies can provide new approaches to assessing learning, such as examining where learners focus their attention, what choices they make, and how well they adapt to new situations

The Voices of XR speaker series is made possible by Kathy McMorran Murray and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Traineeship (NRT) program as part of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Training in the Science, Technology, and Applications of Augmented and Virtual Reality at the University of Rochester (#1922591).