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The XR Development Lab in the College of Education was established in 2022 with support from Unity and funding from the university and the Department of Teaching and Learning. The lab is located in Room 312 of Cleveland Hall. In lab projects, we work from the theory that all students can and need to be engaged in order to learn. The learning model that we ground our work in is the Comprehensive Task Engagement Model (Egbert et al., 2021; 2022).

Our work includes:

  1. Reviewing, curating, and creating XR tools for education across disciplines, contexts, and levels.
  2. Providing professional development to pre- and in-service teachers and disciplinary faculty to raise awareness of XR and support practical digital literacy skills based on a task engagement framework.
  3. Conducting and collaborating on research on XR in education.

Our Current projects (2025-2027)

Advancing Equitable Science Learning in Washington State Classrooms through an AI-Empowered Group Argumentation Coordinator.

This project aims to leverage the power of GenAI (e.g., LLMs) to develop a conversational agent to enhance student productive disciplinary engagement of group argumentation practices in middle school science classrooms.

AI-Empowered Adaptive Assessment for Washington Rural Teachers: A Conversational System for Equitable Science Learning.

This project aims to leverage the power of GenAI (e.g., LLMs) to develop an adaptive assessment design system that supports teachers’ capacity of designing and using customized classroom assessments to meet their student needs.

Building community-engaged partnership to develop K-12 STEM teacher AI literacy

This project aims to advance AI literacy in K-12 STEM education by developing a structured, community-engaged professional learning model that supports teachers in integrating AI literacy into their existing curricula.

Designing An LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for Customized Science Assessments Through Multidisciplinary Human-AI Collaboration

This project aims to leverage the power of GenAI (e.g., LLMs) to develop an adaptive assessment design system that supports teachers’ capacity of designing and using customized classroom assessments to meet their student needs.

Our Past Funds (2024-2025)

  • College of Education Equity and Inclusion Mini-grant
  • Faculty Excellence Award Funding
  • Transformational Change Initiative Funding

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