An Interactive Playground for Generative AI, Immersive Learning, and Creative Experimentation
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
We look forward to seeing you at the OLC Accelerate 2025! Questions? Contact us at conference@onlinelearning-c.org
The AI Exploration Zone Co-Chair – Dr. Devena Singleton, West Coast University
The AI Exploration Zone Co-Chair – Dr. Randall De Witt, West Coast University
Accelerate 2025 Conference Co-Chair – Cody House, George Washington University
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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