A partnership between University College of the North and Georgian College in Barrie, Ontario, aims to use technology to teach Indigenous language and culture.

Georgian College will share their immersive and interactive teaching tools with UCN.

Those tools include virtual, mixed, and augmented reality to teach Indigenous languages, culture, treaties and more.

The agreement makes UCN an ally in Georgia’s Indigenous Peoples in XR Project. The project addresses and provides context-based language learning for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada and abroad.

“XR” refers to the use of virtual, hybrid, and augmented reality technology.

Doug Lauvstad, UCN’s President and Vice-Chancellor said the partnership will help them leverage best practices for teaching Indigenous languages to help ensure the continuance of those languages.