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How can teachers use VR in the classroom?

Neo LMS

billion by 2025, while the education sector will attract 15 million users. Launched in 2003, by San Francisco-based Linden Labs, Second Life is a comparative dinosaur in Internet Years. Today, as a consequence of some deep thinking by people at Tesla (electric cars) and Oculus Rift these technologies are again finding traction.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

Without measurement, there is no pressure for improvement,” he said in a 2009 speech to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Since 2003, Georgia State has raised its graduation rates by 23 percentage points, which adds up to more than $60 million. Around the same time, philanthropic foundations weighed in.

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