Marie Edin Solheim has been teaching since before XR existed as a term – and that perspective is exactly what makes her worth listening to.

As Learning Technology and XR Coordinator at Innlandet fylkeskommune in Norway, she bridges early childhood pedagogy, vocational education, and immersive technology – designing learning environments where VR, AR, and AI are tools in service of real human development, not the other way around.

Marie builds from a head-heart-hand philosophy: technology only earns its place when it connects to the learner. With a background spanning preschool to high school and cross-sector research collaboration, she knows what sustainable, inclusive innovation in education actually looks like.