As we've been reporting, there's real concern about the growing prevalence of AI and other

technologies in higher education.

But some schools have found benefits as well.

In the case of nursing programs, more and more are integrating immersive technologies

like generative AI and virtual reality into their curricula.

Ali Rogan spotlights one of those for our series Rethinking College.

It's a familiar hospital scene.

The patient's heart has stopped.

It's a code blue emergency.

But this patient is a mannequin.

And while this looks and sounds like a hospital, it's an immersive, interactive

lab.

It really mirrors just what they would see in any given day in the hospital.

Tina Scott is director of the Experiential Learning Center at North Carolina Central University.

There are scenarios, case studies that we can embed and just transform that room into any type of scenario we would want it to be.

You hear beeping, you may hear someone screaming, that can even simulate smells.

North Carolina has one of the largest projected nursing shortages in the country.

To help meet demand, schools like North Carolina Central University,

a historically black institution, are turning to technology.

We're able to train more students. We're able to bring more students in any event that we cannot get a clinical space.

We can do a clinical day right here.

NCCU does not have a hospital, which means students have faced barriers to securing clinical

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