The AI Exploration Zone

An Interactive Playground for Generative AI, Immersive Learning, and Creative Experimentation

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The AI Exploration Zone is an interactive space at OLC Accelerate 2025, designed to ignite curiosity and innovation through hands-on engagement with generative AI, immersive learning platforms, and creative educational tools.

This open-format environment encourages participants to explore, experiment, and build confidence with AI technologies. Whether you’re an educator, instructional designer, or administrator, The AI Exploration Zone offers personalized experiences that demonstrate how emerging tools can enhance teaching, learning, and educational operations.

Core Features of The AI Exploration Zone

Immersive Learning Scavenger Hunt

Step into an immersive learning AR environment powered by FrameVR.io, where exploration meets education in The AI Exploration Zone’s signature scavenger hunt. Designed as a metaverse-based experience, this station transforms traditional learning into an interactive journey through a virtual ecosystem filled with embedded AI agents, educational challenges, and media-rich resources.

Participants navigate the space using their own avatars, encountering real-world scenarios and multimedia learning artifacts as they complete discovery-based missions. Each “checkpoint” within the FrameVR world introduces a new concept – like prompt engineering, adaptive learning, or AI audio tools – through videos, links, or interactive prompts.

Key Features:

  • Persona-Based Paths: Different avatar-guided quests tailored for educators, designers, and administrators.
  • Gamification: Log your progress as you discover each hidden area.
  • Persistent Environment: Access the FrameVR world during and after the conference, extending the impact of the Zone experience.
  • Collaborative Exploration: Engage in real-time with other attendees, AI agents, or real-life tour guides embedded in the environment.

 

Whether you’re new to immersive learning or already designing virtual experiences, this scavenger hunt offers a practical, inspiring introduction to using the metaverse as an AI teaching and learning ecosystem.

Create Your Own AI Teaching Assistant

Bring your digital teaching assistant to life through a step-by-step generative AI workflow that blends creativity with utility. At this interactive station, participants will craft a fully realized AI persona, complete with a custom visual avatar, AI-generated script, and lifelike voiceover. The result: a personalized assistant designed to support instruction. This hands-on experience demystifies the process of creating classroom support by guiding you through a rich design journey using some of today’s most accessible AI tools.

Key Features:

  • AI-Generated Avatars: Use generative image tools to create a unique, professional avatar that visually represents your teaching assistant.
  • Script Writing with ChatGPT: Generate and refine a conversational script tailored to your context—course support, onboarding, coaching, or FAQs.
  • Voice Overs with ElevenLabs: Apply a realistic AI-generated voice to your assistant’s script, adding human-like warmth and clarity to your digital persona.
  • Role-Based Templates: Choose from paths aligned to educators, instructional designers, and administrators for targeted functionality and messaging.
  • Take-Home Assets: Leave with downloadable voice files, script text, and avatar images ready to embed into your LMS, course videos, or presentations.

“No Experience Required” Podcast Booth

Enter a virtual studio where storytelling meets cutting-edge AI. In this hands-on station, participants will produce a polished educational podcast segment, no prior audio experience required. Using AI-powered tools like Adobe Podcast Studio, ElevenLabs, and Google Notebook LM, you’ll go from concept to publishable audio in minutes.

This immersive experience guides you through the complete podcast creation process from content ideation and script drafting to voice recording and AI-enhanced audio production.

Key Features:

  • AI-Powered Content Curation with Google Notebook LM: Quickly gather and organize course materials, notes, and ideas to form the foundation of your podcast episode.
  • Script Generation with ChatGPT: Use conversational AI to draft a compelling, structured podcast script aligned with your instructional or messaging goals.
  • AI Voice Recording with ElevenLabs: Record your own voice or apply a lifelike AI voice to narrate your script.
  • Audio Editing with Adobe Podcast Studio: Enhance your podcast’s sound quality with automated tools that clean up background noise.
  • Digital Media: Leave with a complete digital audio file and transcript ready for upload to your LMS, course site, or text message tool.

EduJams with Suno

Step into a sound-infused creative zone where music becomes a tool for connection, expression, and learning. EduJams with Suno invites participants to generate original theme songs or audio intros for their courses using Suno.com, an AI-powered music platform that brings your educational vision to life through custom audio tracks.

This station emphasizes the role of music in setting tone, reinforcing concepts, and building community. With just a few prompts and ideas, you’ll walk away with a professionally generated track ready to energize your teaching environment.

Key Features:

  • Course-Centered Composition: Create songs inspired by your course themes, learning outcomes, or student motivations.
  • Creative Exploration: Try different genres, moods, and lyrical ideas to match your teaching personality or course aesthetic.
  • Expressive Pedagogy: Use music as a bridge to engage students emotionally and make learning experiences more memorable.
  • Ready-to-Use Outputs: Leave with a downloadable audio file you can feature in your LMS, podcast, welcome video, or digital announcements.

Test Your Knowledge (TYK) GPT

Discover how to design adaptive learning experiences using generative AI. In this hands-on station, participants will learn to build scenario-based TYK’s that adjust in real time to learner responses, demonstrating how AI can support differentiated learning paths and formative feedback.

Rather than interacting with a prebuilt quiz agent, this station guides you through the process of crafting your own adaptive sequences using structured prompts and branching logic, showing how tools like GPT can simulate responsive teaching.

Key Features:

  • Scenario Design Frameworks: Learn how to structure multi-path learning activities where each response leads to a new challenge or resource.
  • Prompt Sequencing Techniques: Create layered prompts that shift based on learner input, encouraging deeper thinking and personalized feedback.
  • Adaptive Feedback Modeling: Craft generative responses that offer hints, redirection, or encouragement depending on learner performance.
  • Use Case Templates: Explore examples for quiz remediation, case study walkthroughs, and interactive content reviews.

Prompts Across the Zone

Explore how strategic prompt design powers meaningful interactions with AI across a variety of educational tools. At this station, participants will learn how to craft, iterate, and apply effective prompts for instructional design, student engagement, and content generation.

This is a hands-on exploration of prompt engineering as a skill, with practical examples tailored for teaching, course development, and communication.

Key Features:

  • Prompt Crafting: Learn how to write clear, contextual prompts that produce useful AI responses across different tasks and content types.
  • AIterative Design Techniques: Practice refining prompts to improve tone, accuracy, or creativity based on output evaluation.
  • Role-Aligned Prompt Sets: Access curated examples designed for educators, instructional designers, and administrators.

Immersive Learning Scavenger Hunt

Step into an immersive learning AR environment powered by FrameVR.io, where exploration meets education in the AI Exploration Zone’s signature scavenger hunt. Designed as a metaverse-based experience, this station transforms traditional learning into an interactive journey through a virtual ecosystem filled with embedded AI agents, educational challenges, and media-rich resources.

Participants navigate the space using their own avatars, encountering real-world scenarios and multimedia learning artifacts as they complete discovery-based missions. Each “checkpoint” within the FrameVR world introduces a new concept – like prompt engineering, adaptive learning, or AI audio tools – through videos, links, or interactive prompts.

Key Features:

  • Persona-Based Paths: Different avatar-guided quests tailored for educators, designers, and administrators.
  • Gamification: Log your progress as you discover each hidden area.
  • Persistent Environment: Access the FrameVR world during and after the conference, extending the impact of the Zone experience.
  • Collaborative Exploration: Engage in real-time with other attendees, AI agents, or real-life tour guides embedded in the environment.

The AI Exploration Zone is designed to be a vibrant, inclusive, and transformative space where all attendees, regardless of background, can discover how AI can amplify creativity, improve workflows, and personalize learning. With hands-on experiences, shared challenges, and take-home ideas, participants will leave inspired and equipped to lead AI innovation in their own institutions.

The AI Exploration Zone Chairs

We look forward to seeing you at the OLC Accelerate 2025! Questions? Contact us at conference@onlinelearning-c.org

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The AI Exploration Zone Co-Chair – Dr. Devena Singleton, West Coast University

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The AI Exploration Zone Co-Chair – Dr. Randall De Witt, West Coast University

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Accelerate 2025 Conference Co-Chair – Cody House, George Washington University

Orlando, FL | November 17-20, 2025

OLC Accelerate showcases groundbreaking research and highly effective practices in online and digital learning across K-12, higher education, and corporate L&D. This event is designed to empower and support leaders, instructional designers, educators, and training professionals by offering a wide range of sessions and activities.

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