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Opening U.S. Schools

by Len Scrogan

In our covid-shaken country, should schools and universities open back up for business? How should that be done? And dare we pause and consider for a moment the impact that the last half year …

Tags:Covid-19| Education

Accelerators of K12 School Innovation

by Len Scrogan

The COSN 2020 K12 Driving Innovation: Accelerators report, after multiple rounds of Delphi-like voting by more than 102 members of their International Advisory Board of distinguished educational technology experts, has a lot to say …

Tags:Education

Hurdles Facing K12 School Innovation

by Len Scrogan

What are the main hurdles facing tech innovation in schools? What constraints can be expected to slow down your best-made sales plans for reaching the K12 market? The COSN 2020 edition of the K12 …

Tags:Editor| Education

Precision Metrics in XR

by Len Scrogan

Extended Reality (XR) is earning a lot of ‘street cred’ these days in the medical field. I see creative application and diverse use cases of XR everywhere I tread: in conference presentations, webinars, hospitals …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Education| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Chasing Hearts and Minds in Enterprise XR and Beyond

by Len Scrogan

In my two previous articles in this series, Chasing Stories in Enterprise XR and Chasing Data in Enterprise XR, we established opposite positions on a crucial question about selling or promoting XR: “Which is …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Chasing Data in Enterprise XR and Beyond

by Len Scrogan

Feel-good stories (like customer engagement and titillating use cases) for immersive XR applications are what we always seem to hear about these days. In a previous article, Chasing Stories in Enterprise XR and Beyond, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Tales from the Pandemic

by Len Scrogan

It seems like everyone knows of someone who has lost their job, faced the doubts of possibly being seropositive, been infected, or died during the recent Covid-19 pandemic crisis. I know I do. There …

Tags:Chromebooks| display technology

Will Coronavirus Flay School Budgets?

by Len Scrogan

Across the large and small display industry, many planners in the US are wondering how the Covid-19 pandemic will end up affecting revenues and business coming from the K-12 and higher ed markets. Most …

Tags:display technology| Education| USA

The Worst of Times: Education in the Crosshairs

by Len Scrogan

It’s the best of times and the worst of times. No, it’s the worst of times, at least in the coronavirus-jolted education world. I started shaping this article in my mind immediately after receiving …

Tags:display technology| Education

Chasing Stories in Enterprise XR and Beyond

by Len Scrogan

When trying to demonstrate the effectiveness of XR, and creating stronger buy-in, which is more important—showing the data or telling powerful stories? My sense of things is that showing quantifiable results usually wins the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Education| Virtual Reality

Unleashing the User-Generated Content Genie

by Len Scrogan

Over the last five years I have reported about educators in significant numbers trolling the booths at numerous expositions, evidencing strong interest in having students produce educational content for their institutions. As a recent …

Tags:Content Management (CMS)| Education| User-generated Content

XR for Training and Education (Part 3)

by Len Scrogan

In my continued series about VR as an educational tool in today’s industries, my last article focuses on current headaches in deploying VR and a few highly anticipated educational developments that will serve to …

Tags:Education| Virtual Reality