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As Facebook Changes Name to Meta, Company Wants to Pull Education Into Its 'Metaverse'

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What that metaverse will look like is still a bit vague, but the company gave some hints in prepared statements and in an hour-long video it released. In 2014 the company bought VR company Oculus for $2 billion. And he is targeting education as one key part of that vision. Zuckerberg’s interest in virtual reality is nothing new.

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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Education

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Moreover, it provides personalized study schedules according to the needs of each learner. To get these results, companies are training their AIs to determine and represent knowledge gaps based on the Knowledge Space Theory. Also, through machine learning, AI takes into account the challenges and complexity of scientific concepts.

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EdisonLearning Joins with Digital Learning Collaborative to Improve Online Education

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Online and blended learning have become powerful solutions to improve students’ access to a high-quality education, regardless of their life circumstances, socioeconomic status or zip code,” said Thom Jackson, President and CEO of EdisonLearning. “As

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Can a Hollywood-Backed VR Company Make Science Labs More Effective?

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The university is building the course material as part of a partnership with a VR entertainment company called Dreamscape Immersive, which is led by Walter Parkes, who produced Hollywood blockbusters including “Men in Black,” “Minority Report” and “Gladiator.” I think that’s what's going to sell it,” he said.

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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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Some Professors Fight Study-Help Sites. Other Professors Now Use Them.

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Soon someone from the company reached out to her to offer her full access to the site for free, which costs students either $39.95 All she had to do was fill out a faculty profile, and she happily answered questions about how she had used the service and did an interview for an article on the company’s website. per month, or $119.40

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Google Jamboard 2021 with Tom Mullaney

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Tom Mullaney is a Digital Learning Integration Designer for the San Francisco Unified School District. Tom’s education experience includes Special Education, Social Studies, and educational technology coaching in New York, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF.

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