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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. The hope is that STEM subjects will become fun and relevant through learning experiences that are memorable and easily retained. Launched in 2003, by San Francisco-based Linden Labs, Second Life is a comparative dinosaur in Internet Years. Second Life.

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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

He added that the number of students graduating with majors in STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – has doubled since the introduction of predictive analytics. But some STEM majors are tougher than others. As a result, the college-age population is expected to decline by 15 percent after the year 2025.

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