Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

When Melissa Hardy took over a biology laboratory class at Salt Lake Community College, she inherited a commercial lab manual that left much to be desired. Much of the attention that open educational resources have earned focuses on their low cost. It was out of date. It didn’t align with the structure of her course.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

We can’t just use a college textbook, we go through it so fast.” Dueling for Attention Work is not the primary reason people use Duolingo. billion valuation , says the bite-size lessons that its app offers in 36 languages compete largely with social media platforms and mobile games for people’s time and attention.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Lessons are delivered via headset including points of interest that dynamically attract student attention. Google has partnered with leading museums, universities, laboratories, and publishers to develop more than 1,000 VR (and AR) tours. Students move at their own pace, navigating the lesson with simple hand gestures. CoSpaces Edu.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2016

I was in the beta version of a beautiful virtual laboratory with white walls, microscopes, icons representing different environments and a teleportation station that would take students to the various scenes within Lifeliqe. According to Homola, the laboratory will come to function as a hub for classroom experiences.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

Algorithms will one day play a pivotal role in teaching and learning, so colleges need to pay close attention to how they work and who builds them. But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom. Like textbooks—that's a classic example.

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k12 Digest

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Equipped laboratories, including Fab Labs and 3D printing facilities, enhance hands-on learning. The company has begun transforming textbooks into interactive realities by incorporating virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and even Metaverse applications. The companys initiatives reflect this vision.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Reading back over a textbook or taking lecture notes with a highlighter at the ready is often done by students, for instance, but these practices have proven of limited merit, and in some cases even counterproductive in aiding recall. As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

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