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Schools and Colleges Try Virtual Reality Science Labs. But Can VR Replace a Cadaver?

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Google has partnered with science education company Labster to create an online biology degree program with virtual reality labs. Microsoft's partnership with Pearson includes HoloChemistry for primary, secondary and college students, and HoloPatient for nursing students. Students will use Google’s Daydream VR technology.

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Here's How Single Sign-On Saved One District 2,500 Hours of Instructional Time Per Month

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And that is a very conservative number, based only on time saved using the top six critical core web applications from Pearson, McGraw-Hill, PowerSchool, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Google Classroom. Case Study: Pickens School District enjoys instant access. We actually have well over 30 applications at this point.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Sueann Galt, STEM Coordinator Does the use of ‘Learning Menus’ increase students’ intrinsic motivation?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The Hindu Business Line : “ Pearson India set to launch K–12 online private school.” The non-speakers: James Damore, the fired Google engineer, and Lucian Wintrich, a journalist with Gateway Pundit. . Accreditations and Certifications and Competencies. More via Edsurge. ” The Business of Job Training.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

Even without providing you the final tally of funding for 2016, I can point to other signals about what’s happened to ed-tech startups over the course of the last twelve months – their sustainability, their viability. (Or These are just the ones that were reported by the press, of course.). Why, schools of course.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 37 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: September 16, 2017 Pearson India set to launch K-12 online private school | Business Line → Educational services firm Pearson India will launch virtual international school for K-12, International Connections Academy, in India soon. But the core of their behavior isn’t unusual.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 37 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: September 16, 2017 Pearson India set to launch K-12 online private school | Business Line → Educational services firm Pearson India will launch virtual international school for K-12, International Connections Academy, in India soon. But the core of their behavior isn’t unusual.

EdTech 150