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XR & AI in Education: Is this a Wesley Crusher Moment?

XR & AI in Education: Is this a Wesley Crusher Moment?

June 26th, 2025

1:00 pm-1:30 pm

Rob Theriault

Rob Theriault

Immersive Technology Manager, Georgian College | Barrie, ON, Canada

Two tsunamis have hit the shores of education and will forever change the way students learn and the way learning is assessed. The merging of XR and AI will make learning more immersive, engaging and experiential and, when combined with AI, will help us shift from a marks based system to a mastery based system of learning. We should not and cannot continue to anesthetize students with lectures and bullet points. As Mike Wadhara of Techcrunch suggested, “we are moving from the information age to the experiential age”. Join this session to learn about the future of XR-AI and why educational institutions must evolve.


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XR & AI in Education: Is this a Wesley Crusher Moment?