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Teaching in virtual reality transforms learning experience

Farah Jan of the International Relations Program taught a course in virtual reality during the spring semester, which students say broke up the monotony of Zoom meetings and aided in their learning.
In virtual reality, students' avatars sit in chairs around a table, with their names above their heads.
Students, represented by their avatars, sit around the seminar table in Farah Jan’s International Relations Thesis Seminar, which was held in virtual reality.
(Image: Farah Jan)

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