ITS Stragetic Plan MIT Updates | Multimedia & Immersive Technologies

Goal 3: Innovate

We innovate by harnessing interdisciplinary ideation, leading-edge technologies, equity principles, design logic, data analysis, entrepreneurial spirit, and a tinkerer mentality to nurture the joy of learning, discovery, and public service.

3.3 - Immersive Learning Spaces

Foster and support faculty and students’ co-creation of innovative hybrid learning spaces and experiences to address the post-pandemic instructional needs of faculty and students at both campuses.

Outcomes

Faculty will have the capacity to adopt immersive media into educational experiences and course designs
Students will experience greater interdisciplinarity in CSUSB courses
Students will have enhanced learning

Performing Arts Center Virtual Safety Training

The Performing Arts Center Virtual Safety Training Project uses immersive learning to teach faculty, staff, and students how to safely evacuate the building during an emergency. The platform will also support faculty in training students on various theater-related projects. This is part of the ITS Strategic Plan 3.3 - Immersive Learning Spaces. The first phase of this project will be completed in August 2025.

View from the stage looking out into a modern auditorium with tiered seating. The space includes warm wood paneling, acoustic treatments on the walls, overhead rigging for stage equipment, and red curtains framing the stage.

Interior view of the Ellen and Stan Weisser Performing Arts Foyer. The space features a modern, curved blue wall with vertical paneling, a round entrance on the left, minimalist furniture with orange chairs, and large floor-to-ceiling windows casting shadows across the floor.