{"id":69842,"date":"2020-03-01T10:37:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T15:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=69842"},"modified":"2020-03-01T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T15:37:03","slug":"over-75-purdue-university-students-will-attend-their-commencement-ceremonies-in-vr-melnick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/03\/01\/over-75-purdue-university-students-will-attend-their-commencement-ceremonies-in-vr-melnick\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 75 Purdue University students will attend their commencement ceremonies in VR [Melnick]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vrscout.com\/news\/purdue-university-2020-vr-graduation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Over 75 Purdue University students will attend their commencement ceremonies in VR<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from vrscout.com by Kyle Melnick<br \/>\n<em>Viewers will \u201cmarch down\u201d the procession line alongside their peers via a mobile 360-degree camera.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">[Last] Thursday over 400 students at Purdue University Global participated in their final commencement ceremonies. Of those graduating, over 75 will have done so remotely over the internet, and therefore will not be there in-person to walk the stage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This year, a new pilot program led by Purdue Global\u2019s director of learning and leadership community, Patti Pelletier, is offering remote students the chance to \u201cattend\u201d their ceremonies in VR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 75 Purdue University students will attend their commencement ceremonies in VR &#8212; from vrscout.com by Kyle Melnick Viewers will \u201cmarch down\u201d the procession line alongside their peers via a mobile 360-degree camera. Excerpt: [Last] Thursday over 400 students at Purdue University Global participated in their final commencement ceremonies. Of those graduating, over 75 will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,354,95,3,391,419,418,180,64,62,133,321,214,367,253,824],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-av-audiovisual","category-global-globalization","category-higher-education","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-immersion","category-innovation","category-it-in-he","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning","category-xr-extended-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69843,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69842\/revisions\/69843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}