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Chinese Testing Virtual Reality Classrooms and Computer-Based Adaptive Teaching
Credit: NetDragon Websoft
Deep within a building shaped like the starship Enterprise, a little-known company is working on the future of education in Fuzhou, China. Vast banks of servers are amassing a database that will be used to build intimate profiles of millions of kids by recording them at work and play, tracking their touchscreen swipes, shrugs, and head swivels.
This is the hive of NetDragon Websoft Holdings, a hack-and-slash video-game maker that is an unlikely candidate to transform learning via headset-mounted virtual reality teachers.
From The Japan Times
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