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What’s Percolating in the Ed Market

by Len Scrogan

What are the late-breaking developments in educational tech? Which innovations are trending in the near term? What is expected to surge and scale in schools? And which innovations promise to swell over the long …

Tags:Education| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 50| Wearables

Ed Market Challenges: The 2016 Horizon Report

by Len Scrogan

Dissecting the 2016 Horizon Report† helps not only with an understanding of the ebb and flow of the educational marketplace, but more importantly, it supplies some insight into some of the chief challenges facing …

Tags:Education| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Ed Market Trends: The 2016 Horizon Report

by Len Scrogan

This fall the New Media Consortium (NMC), together with the Consortium for School Networking (COSN), released their annual K12 Horizon Report.† According to the NMC, “The NMC Horizon Report series charts the five-year horizon …

Tags:display technology| Education| Projection| Vol 23 - Issue 47

U.S. DoE Awards VR Prize

by Bob Raikes

The U.S. Department of Education is launching EdSim Challenge, a competition to design educational simulations in virtual and augmented reality with a cash prize pool of $680,000 and additional sponsor prizes from IBM, Microsoft, …

Tags:AR/VR| Education| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 44

VR @ ISTE 2016

by Len Scrogan

The virtual reality meme evidenced a favored and prominent footprint in both the exhibit hall and conference sessions at the recent ISTE 2016 conference. (The ISTE 2016 educational conference, with over 16,000 in attendance …

Tags:Best Buy| Education| Google| Samsung Display| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 43

Why Case Studies Fail in the Education Market

by Len Scrogan

A recently published research report, “3D in Education: South-east London Trial”, by Professor Anne Bamford of University of the Arts-London provides us with some insightful action research findings relative to 3D in education, notions …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Education| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 44

Technology for Halloween

by Matthew Brennesholtz

The Entertainment Technology Department of the New York City College for Technology (City Tech) in Brooklyn has a high-technology haunted house for Halloween every year called Gravesend Inn. Gravesend is actually a neighborhood in …

Tags:Education| NEC| Rental and Staging| Theme Parks and Amusements| Vol 23 - Issue 42

Learning from Successful Educational Projects

by Len Scrogan

In an article published earlier this month (A 3D Success Story: The Wilson County Schools), I highlighted the efforts of the Wilson County Schools, a mid-sized district in Tennessee that was honored with one …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| 3D software| display technology| Education| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 41

The Grammar of VR

by Len Scrogan

This article is a grammar lesson, but don’t worry. It’s not as boring as the typical grammar lesson stockpiled in the deepest recesses of your childhood memories. That’s because it’s about the grammar of …

Tags:Education| Large Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 39

A 3D Success Story: The Wilson County Schools

by Len Scrogan

There are a lot of good things happening with educational 3D across the country, yet I find that most of the great stories about 3D in classrooms somehow seem to fly under the radar. …

Tags:3D Content Creation| 3D software| Education| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Universities Employ VR for Education and Research

by Norbert Hildebrand

In a recent case study WorldViz, a California based VR company, described how a university can use virtual today for preparing their students for real life challenges. The case studies shows how Embry Riddle …

Tags:Education| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 37