Within HighTech Strategy 2025 the German Federal Education and Research Ministry now launch Future Cluster. Where one of the key objectives is to bring outstanding research faster into people’s everyday lives. This new generation of regional innovation clusters will form a basis for ideal conditions for the cooperation of universities, …
“Talk to Books” is a new form of search where you ask questions and Google’s AI reads and selects small pieces from the world library of books that produce the answer. This is a new kind of search where using sentences will in most cases get better results than using …
How can you improve school education with augmented reality lessons? Schools that are using the flipped classroom in Austria, 90 percent want to continue using the pedagogy. A survey on the subject shows that e.g. mathematics and English has improved dramatically by flipping the classroom. Some of the advantages are …
Every age has its innovative format for storytelling. The oral tradition proceeded to innovations like the printed book’s texts and illustrations, to proceed to move image and sound in the form of film, radio and TV. What is significant is that the power of a good story independently of format …
Let an avatar follow your movements in an augmented reality environment, interested? Disney is making great progress within this field. Let’s try another, why not visualise furniture and other items to place them in your own home to optimize your interior design before you actually buy and taking the physical …
“The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.” Richard Dawkins Our platform for integrated storytelling and interactive books is a great example of this. As the original vision was to bring engaging interactivity into the book-format with multimedia and simple tasks with feedback. The empowering solution after loads …
“A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.” George Lucas The storytelling and publishing market is developing rapidly in the shadow of digitization. Ebooks, audiobooks to interactive books, and all the new distribution- and business models that follow with it. However, remember, like once upon a time, …
Professor Mark Greenberg at Penn State University identifies three reasons to integrate social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools in an article in the special issue of the journal The Future of Children: “First, schools are ideal sites for interventions with children. Second, school-based SEL programs can improve students’ competence, enhance …
Three points are vital for the change of learning from systemic thinking of the industrial age to design thinking of our age: 1. The user/learner is the centre of the experience 2. Think outside the box to produce engagement 3. Design is not for the sake of design. The design …
In a global forecast, the gamification market is expected to grow to €10 billion by 2020. It is driven e.g. by that gamification mechanisms are well-equipped to bring added value both for employees and customers. As it is especially effective for marketing, brand management and as an engaging feature in …
George S. Day, Professor of Marketing at Wharton Business School, identifies the interplay of three transformative driving-forces to manage marketing activities in the digital age. Firstly, the impact of digital technologies Secondly, the changing role of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Thirdly, emerging organizational design. Marketing strategy from …
