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To Make VR/AR/XR More Accessible to Education
San Francisco, CA (USA), February 2021 - LBX Immersive is a San Francisco based company that provides hardware, platform, content, and device management solutions. The mission is helping high schools, universities, and enterprise clients implement and scale virtual, augmented, and mixed reality by making hardware more accessible through affordable semester lease-and-purchase options for both faculty and students, as well as short-term leases for enterprise clients.
» MOREVHS Learning Students Excel in Advanced Placement Exams
Boston, MA (USA), January 2021 - Students taking Advanced Placement® courses through VHS Learning maintained their decade-plus record of exceeding the national average pass rate on AP® exams. A score of 3 or higher on an AP® exam is considered a "passing" grade for AP® college credit at many universities.
» MORETeaching Machines to See Like People
Tübingen (GER), January 2021 - With generative radiance fields for 3D-aware image synthesis (GRAF), scientists from the University of Tübingen and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have vastly improved the quality of machine-generated 3D images of single objects.
» MORELecturio Integrates Learning Objectives into Learning Flow
Leipzig (GER), January 2021 - Learning-science research says that students learn best when they know what they're about to watch in a video, and then afterward can quiz themselves on the content. Lecturio knows this, too, and therefore has made its learning objectives for each video visible within the video player interface. It's now easier for students to check their understanding of the content presented as they go.
» MORELecturio's Qbank Now Available in Multiple Languages
Leipzig (GER), January 2021 - Until now, Lecturio's Qbank for medical students has only been offered in English, but many requests came from international users to provide this resource in additional languages. As a result, professional translations in Spanish and Portuguese are now available.
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London (UK), November 2020 - A new eLearning course, titled Let's Talk about Race in the Workplace, has been commissioned by four UK universities in its first week of release. Portsmouth, Strathclyde, East Anglia, and Cranfield universities are the first to start using the programme.
» MORELecturio Presents New Nephrology Course
Leipzig (GER), November 2020 - Nine out of ten people are not aware of their chronic kidney disease. This poses a variety of challenges for physicians. To better address them, Lecturio has updated its nephrology course.
Transatlantic Collaboration in Digital Music Teaching
Mainz (GER), October 2020 - With the beginning of this month, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has officially started cooperating with Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, in various areas of music-related teaching. Their joint project Virtuelle Musiklehre in Kunst und Wissenschaft ('Virtual Music Teaching in Art and Academia') has attracted financial support to the tune of EUR 73,000 from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
» MOREAnnouncing the Winners - 2020 Academic Division
New York, NY (USA), October 2020 - IELA proudly present the winners of the 2020 International E-Learning Awards, Academic Division, who were honored at the International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL).
Higher Education for Tanzania
Bayreuth (GER), September 2020 - Biodiversity is a central ecological and economic resource for Tanzania, thanks to its extensive nature reserves. For its long-term preservation, the East African country needs experts who can develop and implement effective strategies and measures. As part of a new project funded by the EU to the tune of up to €790,000, the University of Bayreuth is working towards establishing commensurate courses of study at universities in Tanzania. The project title is Developing Curricula for Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation in Tanzania (CONTAN).
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