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XR for Training and Education (Part 2)

by Len Scrogan

In my continued series on how real companies are wrestling with using VR as an educational tool, today’s article focuses on managing costs and measuring success. These notions are based on a recent webinar …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality

XR for Training and Education (Part 1)

by Len Scrogan

This is the story of real-life companies and how they are wrestling with using VR as an educational tool. Last week I attended a webinar that featured a fabulous glimpse into the flourishing VR …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Education| Virtual Reality

A Reality Check for 2020: VR in Education

by Len Scrogan

For the last three years in my undergraduate classes at the University of Colorado-Denver, I have surveyed each incoming cohort (2-3 classes per year) about their use of and experience with virtual reality. What …

Tags:Education| Virtual Reality

Input versus Output Thinking in Ed Tech

by Len Scrogan

The 2019 NewSchools-Gallup Survey of Educator & Student Perceptions of Ed Tech, released this fall, crafts an interesting narrative about selling to the education market. The survey emerges from a partnership between the NewSchools …

Tags:Education

To Be or Not to Be: That is the VR Question

by Len Scrogan

Whenever I talk to innovative educators about VR, the excitement and buzz are deliciously palpable. That’s not the usually the case for school leaders, however. Nor is it true for educators of the slow-to-adopt-new-things …

Tags:Education| Virtual Reality

What Educators Want in VR HMD

by Len Scrogan

Some years ago, marketing professionals introduced the concept of market segmentation. This notion rejected the traditional belief that a product or service had only one life to live in the marketplace. Instead, the same …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Education| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality

A VR/AR Grab Bag (4th Edition)

by Len Scrogan

The number of activities taking space in the extended reality space these days is truly accelerating at a dizzying pace. Frankly, it’s just impossible to keep up. And not every little revelation is worthy …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Education| Virtual Reality

How to Score VR for Educational Advantage

by Len Scrogan

Can virtual reality actually make a difference in the educational endeavor? That’s a question I asked in my previous two articles, “Flying High with Educational VR” and “VR for PT: Towards Educational Advantage”. In …

Tags:Education| Virtual Reality

VR for PT: Towards Educational Advantage

by Len Scrogan

Can virtual reality actually make a difference in the educational endeavor or is it all ballyhoo and exaggeration? That’s a question I asked in my previous article, “Flying High with Educational VR”. Recently I …

Tags:Education| Medical| Virtual Reality

Flying High with Educational VR

by Len Scrogan

Hype is everywhere in the trendy world of virtual reality. That also applies to virtual reality babble in education, where promotion always seems to outweigh actual benefit. We are forced to ask ourselves: “Is …

Tags:Education| Military & Defence| Virtual Reality

Towards Better Ed-Tech Procurement

by Len Scrogan

The Ed-tech procurement process can be frustrating, but a recent research study makes some recommendations on how to take some of the teeth out of its pernicious bite. In my previous two installments, we …

Tags:Education