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    • 2009: Baltimore City Community College collaborates with The Juxtopia Group to distribute virtual instructor technology through mobile augmented reality to deliver hands-on robot assembly instruction.  Research will be conducted to determine the educational value of using a virtual instructor to teaching robot assembly.  The IEEE VIPRG working methods (e.g.., pedagogy taxonomy) will be researched.
    • 2009: Learning Technology sub-committee co-chair, Mrs. Lynn Patterson, completes a pedagogy taxonomy for virtual instructors.  This research was funded by the National Science Foundation.  
    • 2008: VIPRG collaborates with the JURBAN team on the Google Lunar X PRIZE to deliver various virtual instructors to provide STEM instruction around space exploration.  Learn more at www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar/teams/jurban  
    • 2008: VIPRG adds new policy subcommitee, Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI)
    • 2008: VIPRG Human Behavior sub-committee members present virtual instructor poster at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) annual meeting in Atlanta, GA.
    • 2007: Participate in the 1st annual VIPRG workshop on the campuses of Georgetown University, USA, May 21 to 22, 2007