Chicago — A number of colleges within the Saint Louis Public Faculties (SLPS) district have signed on to deliver the immersive energy of digital actuality expertise to college students this college yr with ClassVR, from Avantis Training. To this point, 17 of the colleges within the district have leveraged federal ESSER funding to buy the award-winning AR/VR headsets, which embrace 1000’s of items of VR and AR content material to help all topic areas. Implementation is deliberate for later this college yr.
Douglas Combs from Haddock Training Applied sciences coordinated the purchases following an ESSER showcase for SLPS principals and lecturers. “When colleges come to us asking about the advantages of AR and VR expertise within the classroom, we all know ClassVR will present them with what they need,” stated Combs. “At SLPS, college leaders have been searching for one thing cool and thrilling to interact college students within the content material they have been studying at school. ClassVR is the proper match.”
ClassVR is an all-in-one VR/AR headset designed particularly for Okay-12 colleges. Utilized by greater than 1 million college students in 100,000 lecture rooms around the globe, it consists of all {hardware}, software program, coaching, help and implementation companies wanted for lecturers to deploy AR/VR of their lecture rooms. ClassVR offers lecturers entry to 1000’s of VR and AR assets and content material to reinforce classes and interact college students extra deeply in what they’re studying. College students can nearly expertise strolling with polar bears, swimming with sharks, or touring again in time to see what it was like in a World Warfare I trench. New for the 2023-24 college yr, Avantis aligned 400+ classes in ClassVR to U.S. State Requirements in science, social research and English language arts, offering added worth and comfort for lecturers.
ClassVR qualifies for ESSER funds as a result of it helps lecturers help pupil educational achievement and tackle studying loss.
“College and district leaders are more and more trying to new and rising applied sciences to assist them help pupil studying and AR/VR is a giant a part of these conversations,” stated Avantis Training’s Chief Government Officer, Huw Williams. “ESSER funding is making these applied sciences much more accessible for colleges and we’re wanting ahead to with the ability to deliver the facility of digital actuality into much more lecture rooms, each in St. Louis and throughout the nation.”
To be taught extra about ClassVR, go to http://www.classvr.com.
About Avantis
Avantis Training, the creators of ClassVR, gives easy classroom expertise utilized by greater than one million college students in over 90 international locations.
The world’s first digital actuality expertise designed only for training gives all the pieces a faculty must seamlessly implement VR expertise in any classroom, all at an inexpensive value. To be taught extra go to www.avantiseducation.com and www.classvr.com.
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