Current and potential Uses in Education

In the field of education, the hologram is very important. The reason is that students can actually view the concepts that are taught and visualize them during class. This will help them to clarify the concepts in a better manner and will enhance the way students learn. When the concepts are showcased in front of students' bare eyes, then they can easily understand concepts very easily. You just need to strike the right balance of coaching to make things happen for your students.

Communication and Lectures

Several schools around the world have started using holograms to enhance the learning experience. For example, Australian students at a Canberra school is making use of holograms to enable history students to walk through a 3,000-year-old building or science students to step inside a molecule or witness the inner workings of the human heart. (Hildebrand 2017)

Business Schools have also started tinkering with the idea of offering holographic MBA classes as The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin recently announced plans to launch the classroom of the future with a new 3D immersive video solution that projects a professor into the classroom as a hologram. The school has partnered with Austin-based Contextual Content Group to create and implement the video solution. (Yang 2020)

According to Limberg (2020) This is an authentic experience because I can see all the gestures and the nuances that students are expressing, whether it be raising a hand or nodding, and as a result, it really is very much like being right here in the classroom.

Thoughts: This approach could solve the issue identified in the Boring Education section as it closes the gap between online and in person learning while ensuring all participants are kept safe in a clean environment.

Active Learning

On the education front, holographic technology can add vibrancy to the learning process and just might motivate students to look further into topics they are passionate about. (Bhaskar 2013)

It's not hard to imagine the potential educational applications for active holographic technology which includes:

1. Remote collaboration. Students work with other students, teachers or experts worldwide in what feels like face-to-face interaction. Holographic tech will take videoconferencing to a physical level.

2. Simulate science. Holograms could allow students to conduct science experiments that would be too dangerous, too expensive or too difficult to perform in real life.

3. Experience history. Students could tour historical sites in 3D and have their questions answered by a hologram. Virtual field trips would allow entire classrooms to see and hear (and maybe one day even smell) a Tudor castle or witness how Dinosaurs became extinct

4. Educational gaming. Imagine Minecraft in 3D. Gaming would become truly immersive and would allow students to interact with the environments they create.

5. Extend Instructor Reach. Instructors could deliver lessons and lectures to multiple classrooms, across the globe, simultaneously.

6. Motor skill development. After testing for motor skill development using holographic technology, scientists could analyze the data to create software to improve motor skills for students with muscular, hand & eye coordination difficulties.

7. Teach employment skills. Taking career tech education into the 21st century, holograms could train students how to do job-related tasks in vocational fields of interest.