3D Technology Teaching and Learning Symposium for Humanities Practitioners to be held at Carnegie Mellon University in Spring 2019
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Council on Library and
Information Resources (CLIR) recently funded the conference proposal,
“Immersive Pedagogy: A Symposium on Teaching and Learning with 3D,
Augmented and Virtual Reality.” This symposium will assemble specialists
in immersive technology for education to theorize and design
pedagogical material that addresses critical and practical needs in
higher education across the disciplines in the humanities. The project
team will prioritize incubating projects focused in US Latinx, Latin
American, and Caribbean Studies, but will also consider how 3D/XR
technologies and data curation intersect with critical methodologies
deriving from studies of cultural heritage, minority archives, race and
ethnicity, women of color and feminist theory, community outreach,
public humanities, and accessibility. Pedagogical material produced by
the symposium participants will be made freely available to the public.
“Immersive Pedagogy” is scheduled to take place at Carnegie Mellon University in June 27th and 28th, 2019.
The project team and grant facilitators include a series of CLIR postdoctoral fellows: Dr. Lorena Gauthereau (University of Houston), Dr. Eric Kaltman (Carnegie Mellon University), Dr. Jessica C. Linker (Bryn Mawr College), Dr. Emma Slayton (Carnegie Mellon University), Dr. Neil Weijer (Johns Hopkins University), Dr. Alex Wermer-Colan (Temple University), and Dr. Chris Young (University of Toronto)