"Prevention is better than cure" In a recent travel to India, we look at how just travelling to a different country can improve your perspective on how preventative care and education can help in eliminating diseases more than the outcomes or reach of the latest medical innovation. Prevention can have different perspectives .

 

 

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What 2024 holds for us and the year in review

The world of computing using immersive technologies has another naming convention : spatial. This is quite a nice way to identify without complex naming like XR, AR, MR - Immersive and Spatial. Learnoll enables technology for healthcare education and hence we never introduced any "XR", "VR" or "AR" - the logic being as a healthcare delivery solution "immersive" tech communicates clearly another new spectrum from 2D to 3D immersive.

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In the 21st Century, where technology and healthcare education converge, how do we best prepare our healthcare professionals and patients for the use of modern technology with healthcare needsThe landscape of healthcare education has undergone a seismic shift in the 21st century. The pandemic has created a huge shift from in-classroom to hybrid technology use in-person and online.

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September 29 was celebrated as World Heart Day. When it comes to our health, especially the health of our hearts, there are real-life heroes working behind the scenes to keep us safe and sound. These heroes are healthcare professionals specializing in cardiac preventative care. The recent strikes in nurses demanding better patient care and patient to clinician ratio is a call for healthcare systems to improve our systems and helping the heart heroes to care for the patients with better empathy.

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This is a guest post by Laura Pearson. The article talks about the necessity of developing essential skills in youth and adults.

 Learning doesn’t have to stop when you graduate from high school or college - nor does your education have to be confined within the four walls of a classroom. In fact, engaging in outdoor education can help you expand your knowledge of the world and yourself.

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Guest Blog by Joyce Wilson

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Being organized is a vital component of any teacher's job. It helps you to manage your time more efficiently and have structures in place for creating a better learning environment for you and your students. But let’s not pretend that getting and staying organized is a walk in the park. Learnroll.com shares some practical tips for how you can become more organized in your role as a teacher!

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TIEWomenNJ is a newly founded group as part of the TIE NJ group and our founder attended the annual gala event on Feb 25. The main key was a fireside chat where the ex- ceo of Cognizant was asked to speak about how various kinds of generative AI may be used for industry based applications.

 

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The Society of Similulation in Healthcare was held in Flordia in January and Learnroll founder attended the event. The Simulations were still physicial manikins, some VR based simulations. The key note addressed some key issues about Generative AI which may help in generating specific simulations beside videos, text or other training.

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The Metaverse has been defined in many ways by technology companies, vertical industry and more. For larger technology companies it may mean enabling larger infrastructures, services or domains but for small businesses and startups like us it is more of a business model that includes technology as well as access to portable metaverses to enable your business model. In the current business model, most of our vision of business and the corresponding applications, stacks and more are aligned to ...

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CME or Continuing Medical Education has been defined by Accreditation council for CME (Continuing medical education) as educational activities which serve to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships that a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public, or the profession. The content of CME is that body of knowledge and skills generally ...

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Most schools and universities in US have gone back to opening classes online. Some have opted for in-person classes while most have opted to keep institutions closed and have used technology based video solutions like Zoom, Meet or other to conduct face to face classes online. Here is a list of some back to school resources OECD Coronavirus Special OECD Back to school resources for COVID US Department of Education Consumer Finance - Education CDC Back to School CDC Backpack Card CDC- ...

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We were planned to be there at SXSW Edu event this week. It was cancelled due to outbreak of the COVID-19 virus across continents and countries. In spite of multiple technology advances like AI and medicine, we have still not able to control or predict major outbreaks like SARS or Coronavirus- which is a major challenge in a modern world. It has affected major economies with offices, schools and events closing its doors obstructing daily life. The largest impact is for schools and colleges ...

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VR in the classroom has not seen fast adoption and we find answers for it in the classroom The first and foremost factor is comfort and usability factor of the hardware which does not feel heavy or too difficult to maneuver in a classroom. Time is an essential factor for students and like any other tool they need to use it effectively beside many other tools in supplementing their lessons. Technology aided learning features like Voice or fun facts was up voted by students as most ... Read more...

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STEM is a big buzzword in the United States and it has multiple implementations based on what schools perceive it as. STEM is more than a way of integrating science, maths, and engineering as part of classroom courses STEM is not just a coding course or a science experiment but the ability to analyze and think of a concept to implementation to real-world problems of scenarios.This may be done in a non-curriculum or curriculum-based approach. "STEM is more than a school subject, or the ...

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A blog by Sushmita Chatterjee Spring break has started and it has been an interesting week at my home with two 9 and 10 years old trying to spend their time watching T.V, painting and doing other activities. I put a proposal of "Why not design an app?". GenZ children love apps and whether it is gaming, educational or otherwise it always lights up their face. Most children do not perceive PCS and websites as relevant products or services other than in a tablet or a phone. A few years back ...

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How are the millennials learning? Has there been any change in their learning outcomes? These are some of the challenging questions that any "educator" needs to address. Education & Learning centers (unlike the healthcare system which has a wide variety of specialized centers), comprises of schools/institutions which are still categorized as "private schools”, "public schools" , "charter schools" ,"homeschools" or "afterschool". We do not see a de-centralized learning process which provides ... Read more...

Several years ago, a college newspaper editorial board wrote an editorial suggesting that the college get rid of “useless” humanities departments, such as foreign languages and history, and funnel more resources to “useful” departments. In response, I wrote the following letter, but I never sent it. At Learnroll Immerse, we believe that education is more than grades and skill development. Grades and job skills are certainly part of the equation, but real learning can be about grades, job ...

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2017 - A Retrospective. The first few months of any startup business are always difficult, and the start for Learnroll Immerse was no different. The education industry adopts technology slowly, and we are disrupting education by incorporating the latest technology (some of which are still in beta stages). The Initial Research The initial challenge was to invest in a disruptive technology like 3D/VR/AR to enable a different kind of learning that provides perspectives beyond the textbooks. ...

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Technology is cool but not all cool technologies may be a necessary fit for your use case. As an Enterprise solution architect in my previous job there are some basic solution mandates that architect use for creating a solution for an enterprise. I found that this also helped me making my choice of technology for a problem area. Solution Retrofit The technology landscape is huge and changing. There are new technologies created every day that claim to solve many problems - whether it is ...

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