Creating Powerful Learning Experiences with Unity

1. Session Overview

Learn from a panel of instructional design and classroom educator experts about the secret ingredients for creating powerful and memorable learning experiences with the industry-leading interactive design and development tool. Hear from the creative minds behind some of Unity Learn’s most popular courses (including Create with Code, Create with VR and Unity’s new career pathways) as well as classroom educators who will share tips and tricks for motivating and supporting students in real-time 3D development.

July 29, 2021 Recording:

2. Session Guests

Joy Horvath

Joy Horvath is a Senior Instructional Designer within the Real-Time Learning team at Unity Technologies, where she develops educational content for the Unity Learn platform. Prior to joining Unity, Joy taught game development for five years at different schools and tech camps in California.

Aaron Sharp

Aaron Sharp is an Instructional Designer at Unity Technologies, where he develops educational content for the Unity Learn platform. Prior to joining Unity, Aaron spent about 10 years developing online courses on a variety of technology topics, ranging from game development and 3D animation to Minecraft modding and fashion design.

Mark Suter

Mark is a computer science, game design, and entrepreneurship teacher with 14 years of experience in the classroom and represents Unity as a teacher ambassador. Mark’s classroom is a hybrid of a mad scientist’s laboratory and a traveling circus. Mistakes are encouraged, iteration is frequent, and expectations are high. Mark is always a student and sometimes a teacher.

Luis Zanforlin

Luis Zanforlin is a virtual reality engineer and contemporary orchestral music composer. He currently works as a research associate and VR developer at MIT where he creates new media experiences and contributes in teaching virtual reality and immersive media. He is the co-found Maku XR, an experimental media studio. At the moment he is developing Skybinder, a VR puzzle game made with Unity.