New Webinar! Learning Experiences for the Many, Not the Few: Creating Equitable Immersive Education with Gemma Zeeman
Join us for a very special ThingLink Spotlight webinar with Gemma Zeeman, founder of Immersive Discoveries and a ThingLink Certified Trainer, as we explore how immersive 360° learning environments can make powerful educational experiences available to every learner.
Gemma will share the story behind her recent commissioned project for the Welsh Government’s national Hwb platform, produced through Adnodd.
Through Immersive Discoveries, Gemma works with schools, cultural organisations and national bodies to design and produce immersive resources at scale — and this project is one of her most ambitious to date.
The resource brings learners into four religious sites in Cardiff — a Hindu temple, a cathedral, a mosque and a synagogue — alongside a section exploring Humanism, all without leaving the classroom.
About Gemma – ThingLink Luminary Post
Created in ThingLink, the project combines 360° imagery, interactive hotspots, audio narration, video, embedded escape rooms and 360° music videos to support curriculum-linked learning in Religious Values and Ethics. It was designed to address a genuine equity gap — giving pupils access to rich encounters with diverse worldviews regardless of what their school can afford, organise or access in person. And as schools increasingly face not just logistical barriers, but growing community sensitivity around visiting places of religious worship, a virtual environment offers something a physical visit cannot: a space that is epistemically neutral, bilingual and accessible to every pupil in the room.
Explore Gemma’s Incredible Project
In this session, Gemma will share how thoughtful immersive design can support inclusion, build learner curiosity and help educators create experiences that feel present, purposeful and meaningful. She’ll also reveal two unexpected design decisions — embedded escape rooms and 360° music videos — that produced some of the most striking results in pupil feedback, and explore what both mean for how we think about engagement in immersive learning.
At the heart of the webinar is a powerful question: how can immersive technology help us create learning experiences for the many, rather than the few?
Where and When
📅 Date: Thursday 21st May
⏰ Time: 9am PDT | 12pm EDT | 5pm BST | 6pm CEST | 7pm EEST
⌚ Duration 60 minutes
📍 Where: YouTube Live
🎓 Your 5 Webinar Outcomes
By attending this webinar, you will learn how to:
1. Design immersive learning experiences that improve access and inclusion Explore how 360° environments can help remove barriers linked to cost, location, logistics, confidence and community sensitivity, while giving learners meaningful access to places and perspectives they may not otherwise encounter.
2. Use ThingLink to create purposeful, engaging and curriculum-linked exploration See how interactive hotspots, audio, video and embedded challenges can transform a virtual environment into an active learning journey that encourages curiosity, investigation and deeper understanding.
3. Use escape rooms to turn exploration into purposeful investigation Discover how embedding curriculum-linked escape rooms directly inside a 360° environment — rather than adding gamification as an afterthought — changes how learners engage. Pupil feedback from the RVE project showed that the element of being locked in genuinely motivated children to keep exploring and learning. We’ll look at how this design decision works in practice and how you can apply it in your own environments.
4. Use 360° music videos to create emotional connection and cultural resonance See how music video embedded within a 360° environment can deepen a learner’s sense of presence and connection in ways that audio and text alone cannot achieve — and why this is one of the more unusual and effective tools in the immersive designer’s kit.
5. Build authentic immersive resources through collaboration and thoughtful representation Learn how working with teachers, subject specialists, community voices and learners can strengthen the quality, accuracy and impact of immersive educational content.
Who is this webinar designed for?
This session is ideal for professionals across education, vocational training, and enterprise environments who want to build immersive, competency and skills-focused learning experiences.
Whether you are an Educator, Learning Designer, Instructional Designer, Digital Learning Designer, Learning Experience Designer, Learning Technologist, L and D Manager, Head of Learning and Development, Talent Development Manager, Organisational Development Specialist, Training Manager, or Workforce Development Lead; a TVET educator, vocational lecturer, technical instructor, apprenticeship programme manager, skills development coordinator, competency based education specialist, training centre manager, simulation based training lead, or workforce assessor; or working within enterprise as a Corporate Training Manager, HR Development Manager, Compliance Training Lead, Safety and Risk Training Manager, Operations Training Manager, Onboarding Programme Manager, or Customer Experience Training Lead; this webinar will give you practical strategies to design and implement impactful skills based learning in your specific context.
Takeaways and Live Q&A
We’ll wrap up the session with a lively Q&A, so feel free to ask us anything. We’re here to help and would love to hear from you. The chat will be open throughout the webinar, and we always enjoy your comments and questions along the way. After the session, we’ll send you a follow-up email with the slide deck, packed full of helpful links and resources.
Don’t Miss Out!
Our webinars are always lively, informative and eventful! Even if you can’t make it live, don’t worry, sign up, and we’ll send you the recording and all the links afterward.
