Mursion recently hosted Dr. Lynn Gangone, president and CEO of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), for an informative and insightful conversation with our CEO Mark Atkinson. This fireside chat was part of our Future of Education series. Below is an excerpt of...
[mkd_blockquote text="This is my home, this thin edge of barbwire." title_tag="h2" width=""] In her book Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, quoted above, poet Gloria E. Anzaldúa describes the harrowing and tense experiences that characterize life for those marginalized minorities who live on the US-Mexican border. In...
This post was written by Tushar Thomas, an Associate Learning Partner at Mursion. If you would like to drop Tushar a note, reach out at Tushar.Thomas@mursion.com. Virtual reality training transports learners into a simulated world, which, though similar to reality, can seem alien and even comical...
This post was written by Tushar Thomas, an Associate Learning Partner at Mursion. If you would like to drop Tushar a note, reach out at Tushar.Thomas@mursion.com. Everyone’s ears perked up when Ava — decidedly the queen bee of her middle school class — lightheartedly complained about...
Jamie Thomason [Mursion]: Please allow me to officially welcome Ksenia Closson to our Mursion Future of Work Virtual Roundtable series. My name is Jamie Thomason, I'm a learning partner and a simulation specialist here at Mursion. I am joined today by Christina Yu, V.P. of Identity...
Would teachers find professional development via simulated classrooms useful? This was one of three questions that Dr. Toni M. Smith, Principal Researcher, and Dr. Rachel Garrett, Senior Researcher, from the American Institutes for Research (AIR), explored in the Simulated Instruction in Mathematics Professional Development (SIM...
This may be the only time I’ll disagree with Yoda and, yes, I’m about to pick a semantic fight with the Jedi Master. He was wrong to tell Luke “There is no try.” He didn’t seem particularly empathetic during the training in the swamp and...
“Currently, under normal times, this would not count in Texas. This may change with pandemic issues,” chimed a participant at a recent Mursion Roundtable webinar. This was not an ordinary Zoom event though. It was a gathering of educators to test drive a classroom simulation...
