What if virtual-reality avatars could teach humans empathy–in the real world, not in the realms of gaming or science fiction? In some workplaces, that’s already happening. Mursion, a San Francisco ...

Brooke Wright, a sophomore at Worland High School, who recently won the inaugural UW Agricultural Education Teaching Contest, presents a lesson to virtual students using a live video feed and the ...

Imagine a student-teacher in front of a classroom, trying to get control of the classroom. A student might pull out his phone or make a comment that disrupts the rest of the class. The prospective ...

Students in many teacher training programs for the last few years have, as a precursor to actual classroom experience, engaged with virtual avatars to simulate the experience of interacting with ...