Enabling educational collaboration - a new shared reality

1. Educational collaborations, using enhanced computer graphics, high performance networks, and virtual reality technologies, will enable new and exciting educational opportunities. Teleimmersive collaborations can provide new learning experiences and insights by joining educators and students from remote locations in a shared virtual space. Bringing together students with cultural differences and diverse perceptions of reality into this shared immersive space allows them to see and hear the same objects and sounds and to share their own unique views and perceptions, creating a new, shared reality. My vision of this shared reality for learning is based on three premises regarding research and learning.