There are several interesting crosscurrents flowing through education right now. On one hand, there has been tremendous growth in classical education, with more and more families looking to schools ...

I had an experience 25 years ago that changed my perspective on computing and education. Back then I was running the early virtual reality (VR) company Immersion Corporation. Immersion developed the ...

Many students struggle to understand complex STEM concepts because lectures and textbooks often make science difficult to ...

It’s fair to say that a lot of teaching is based on presenting students with facts. This means successful students tend to be those who retain facts easily, while students who struggle to process ...

Micheal Jerowsky receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Ann Borda does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

This fall, a virtual reality campus will welcome students from around the world. Fisk University, a top ranked HBCU, is partnering with some heavy hitters in tech to combine the in-person classroom ...

Virtual reality and artificial intelligence tools are expanding the immersive education possibilities at the University of Minnesota.

The world you are experiencing right now is reality. (Or so we assume, as discussions can be devoted to what reality really entails.) But technologies such as virtual-reality headsets allow us to also ...

Students who want to swap out their backpacks for a headset are in luck: A new public charter school coming to Utah will be set entirely in virtual reality. Virtual Horizons Charter School is slated ...