If we want to prepare our students for the workplace of the future, we need to engage with new ways of communicating, collaborating and learning, and integrate them in language education in safe ways.

Nergiz Kern

I started exploring virtual reality in 2008, and did so intensively until 2012. I decided to devote more time to it again in 2020 because of its potential for improving the online learning experience for language learners and teachers. I then worked as Research Manager and then Head of Research at Immerse, the first virtual reality platform for English language teaching that then became the first VR language immersion program with live Guide-led language classes. Now, I work independently again.

Read about my previous work experience with VR.

Read my articles and book on VR for language learning
A–Z of Immersive Language Learning and Teaching in Virtual Reality — Book (2025)
A vision for a humanising and sustainable future of language learning with the metaverse (2024)
Integrating environmental education into language lessons using virtual reality (Oct 22)
How to prepare for the future of language learning in the metaverse (Feb 2022)
Out of this world – using virtual reality in the classroom (May 2021).
Starting a Second Life on teaching in a virtual world (2009)

Read my blog posts on VR in language learning.

Latest blog posts

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  New foresight project and membership in the Association of Professional Futurists
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  Inclusive Virtual Reality in Education: Beyond the Headset (OUP ELTOC 2025)
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  R is for Recording in VR

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