EdTech: The New Normal

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Through a $1.5million, four-year NSF grant, Oklahoma State University researchers are leveraging their earlier work with proven, college-level design courses that incorporate VR, AR, and 3D printing technologies. But this time, they are helping underserved Native American middle school students develop STEM skills.

It's great that you can rent an RTX 3080 now, because we wish you Godspeed if you're trying to buy one.

XR Today reports on the latest Extended Reality news from around the globe. Including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. XR News

Yes, that’s really a thing now.

The platform's first subscription feature has a specific target audience.

An innovator in early AR systems has a dire prediction: the metaverse could destroy reality as we know it.

Student ownership is defined as the amount of investment that the learner makes in the topics they learn, the methods they use, and the places they learn at. This does not occur automatically by any specific method. A variety of approaches make it possible to promote student ownership of learning.

Facebook might aim to build an all-immersive digital matrix, but Niantic CEO John Hanke tells us that what he plans to do is take reality—and make it better.

The social networking company has discussed opening physical stores to showcase its virtual reality and augmented reality devices.

“One minute you get scammed, another minute you’re having the best time of your life, making billions of dollars.”

Deep Rock Galactic is a cult-favorite PC co-op game where teams of up to four players dive into perilous caverns in search of precious minerals while battling hordes of alien bugs along the way. The excellently atmospheric game has been subject to requests for VR support ever since launching in Early Access back in 2018. …

The construction of a new medical education building provided an opportunity for the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine to reimagine its learnin

Since lockdown, employees have adopted new work habits, but many execs want a return to the old normal.

The right combination of technology and training will ensure your learning spaces can adapt to ever-changing modes of instruction. Here are key considerations for future-proofing classrooms, supporting faculty and surviving the next pandemic.

The company has unveiled a new prototype wearable that mimics the feeling of handling real objects in the virtual world.

If you've started learning how to 3D model but are in need of 3D modeling ideas, you've come to the right place. Check out these cool ideas!

Varjo’s XR-3 headset has perhaps the best passthrough view of any MR headset on the market thanks to color cameras that offer a fairly high resolution and a wide field-of-view. But rather than just using the passthrough view for AR (bringing virtual objects into the real world) Varjo has developed a new tool to do …

Because of staff shortages, some school districts are canceling classes. Others are lowering their hiring standards. The result can be a chaotic classroom.

Email isn’t broken—it’s the people who are the problem. But if you start treating it like old-fashioned snail mail, suddenly it makes sense again.

At a special launch event today, Niantic announced it’s opening up the Lightship AR Development Kit (ARDK) platform, a software development kit with the kinds of tools the company uses to make Pokémon Go’s ‘world-scale’ gameplay possible. And to attract third-party developers to the platform, it’s also announced $20 million fund which it hopes will kickstart AR development. …

It’s a rebrand of Silicon Valley's increasing power and reach. And it’s made for companies, not people.

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The pandemic accelerated digital transformation and the adoption of new learning models at many colleges and universities — but higher ed culture has some catching up to do. While institutions traditionally measure change in decades, we're now in a time when flexibility, innovation and risk-taking are key to student access and opportunity as well as institutional survival. We spoke with Dr. Mark Lombardi, president of Maryville University, about why the business model of higher ed is broken, the importance of lifelong learning and technology's role in moving universities toward a better future.