[Excerpt from Hypergrid Business plus a video link at the bottom]

Students focus on the content more and paid more attention in all the classrooms using 3D technology, reported Len Scrogan, director of instructional technology at the Boulder Valley School District, at the InfoComm conference in Orlando, Florida this June.

Scrogan is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center.

Teachers also reported fewer disruptions, he added, and students said they preferred the learning experience they had with 3D environments.  …

Typically, two weeks after the material is covered students only retain between 20 and 30 percent – unless the subject was revisited in the meantime.

However, the students in the 3D group had a 49 percent retention rate, according to the case study.  …

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Click here TEDxDenverEd- Len Scrogan- 3D in the Classroom for a 10 minute video.