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Game-Based Learning Gains Steam in Higher Education: Triseum Raises $1.43 Million to Transform Educational Experiences for Students

EdNews Daily

million, on the heels of their official market launch and initial game release due June 1st, 2016, raising the total investment to nearly $2 million. Student graduation and thruput of students is dropping and our educational delivery method for our mobile, digitally driven next generation is failing.

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Age of Learning’s Latest Is a $100 Million Educational Game

Edsurge

The game, publicly available today, works on web browsers and iOS and Android mobile devices. Creating a game that is both educational and entertaining is not for the faint of heart—or capital. Age of Learning has plenty of the latter, thanks in part to a $150 million fundraise in 2016. For the Glendale, Calif.-based

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CoSN 2016: NMC Offers a Taste of the Future of Classroom Technology

EdTech Magazine

Frank Smith Virtual reality’s role in education is obscured by the hype curve, according to a leading industry technology analyst.

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How Tablet Games Can Teach Skills to Students with Visual Impairments

Edsurge

He co-founded eSped, a K-12 software suite to help districts serve special-needs students, which sold to Frontline Education in 2016, and has operated Blindfold Games since 2013 to offer accessible games to adults with visual impairments. The company will track student progress in the games.

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Self-Paced E-Learning Market Evaporating, Report Finds

Marketplace K-12

However, sales of mobile learning, simulation-based learning, game-based learning, and “brain-training” software are all on the rise. These increases are cited as major factors in the global decline of computer-based educational and professional training software. billion in 2016.

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What All Leaders Should Learn About Training From The Health Care Industry

The Game Agency

used a PlayStation to improve his surgical accuracy, the idea of games to improve clinical interventions has been of great interest to the industry. The often-competitive and extroverted nature of sales teams, for example, makes them ideal students for game-based learning training courses with gamification elements added.

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Epic Guide To Game Based Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

100+ Game Based Learning Resources to Get Started in Your Classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Games are fun. Game based learning excites learning in my classroom. Game Based Learning in My Classroom. By Jennifer Roland.