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5 ways virtual reality is being used in education right now

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Considering Sony Playstation’s VR headset sold out in pre-order last week, most of us are aware that virtual reality (VR) technology is hot right now. A new survey from Extreme Networks aimed to answer this question by polling nearly 350 schools within higher ed and K-12.

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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

The Hechinger Report

Forty-eight percent of leaders globally, surveyed by the consulting firm McKinsey , said it’s particularly hard to find and keep employees who understand computer analytics. It usually manages to fill just two or three of those positions, Soni said. Soni is more blunt.

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

Many of his friends took the same shortcut to good jobs at companies including Sony and Lockheed Martin. Nearly one-third of teenagers now say they would prefer their postsecondary education to last two years or less , a survey by the ECMC Group, a nonprofit education corporation, found.

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8 tips for your best Google Expeditions VR pilot

eSchool News

As recently as the 2016-2017 school year, nearly one-quarter (23 percent) of schools responding to a survey said they have tested virtual reality solutions, and while that number could certainly be higher, it’s an indication that the technology is expanding.

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Four Ways to Keep Track of Who Uses eReaders

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Read reports and surveys of research organizations. Here are a couple of infographics for your review, courtesy of The Digital Reader: (It would be interesting to know more about the demographics of this survey conducted by spectos.com.) Interested in who uses eReaders? Here are four ways to keep track: 1. Pandigital Inc.,

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Techcrunch : “ Sony wants to digitize education records using the blockchain.” ” Via Education Week : “Risky Practices With Students’ Data Security Are Common, Survey Suggests.” Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2. Khan Academy, for example, had $27.9 million.

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

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According to a survey by the career search engine Career Builder , “Nearly a third of employers say they have increased their educational requirements over the past five years. In February, Sony issued a press release, “ vowing ” to bring the blockchain to education in the form of a new testing platform.