Akash Saini
Graduate Student, Curriculum & Instruction
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Akash is a Ph.D. student in the Learning Design and Leadership Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He is interested in investigating the pedagogical benefits of employing Virtual Reality (VR)/Augmented Reality (AR) in a mathematics classroom and exploring the relationship between their affordances with assessments. His research and practice focus on developing, designing, exploring, and testing digital tools (such as VR, Games, etc.) to facilitate learning and provide specialized instructions, training, and guidance for integrating such technologies into educational practices.