"What we did with the sudden switch to distance learning in March wasn't remote learning — it was more what is being called 'crisis learning,'" said Jenn Breisacher, the CEO ofDave Dolan, the chief product officer of the virtual-reality learning company Veative, added that addressing the distance-learning needs of both students and teachers was long overdue.
"Everything we design is intended to be student-driven — the student is self-motivated to learn because they're interested in the manner in which the lesson is presented," said the 51-year-old founder and CEO, adding: "We put the student into the story where they are the hero navigating the story with antagonists. We use story to create not just intellectual interest but emotional immersion.
The transition to virtual adventures was not without its hiccups, but Gardner said the shift had brought in new clients and demographics. "The biggest KPI for us was the number of our offline summer campers who transferred their tuition into online summer camp," Gardner said. "We are seeing a niche that we can fill and in which we have a high degree of expertise.
"I think what happened this past spring with school closures is that it really increased the number of teachers who were looking for resources and the number of students who were left to self-study," DoAmaral said. "We became kind of a hub for those resources and traffic increased quite a bit. Things changed almost overnight, and now we're living in the future."
"E-books were fine for romance novels, but it's different for education," Dolan said. "You really need something that has audio, video, testing, tracking of scores for teachers — that's what an actual e-book or textbook or digital book should be." WebXR, he said, works well in an education setting because teachers still get the scores from students' activities while they're working at home, and they can interface with students, comment on sessions, and schedule time to review particular concepts.
According to Seitz, The Enrichery's business has seen an increase of five or six times over last summer, which she attributes to parents looking to beef up their kids' curriculum and skills after a possible slide this past spring. For one thing, the company's customer base morphed after it opened the platform to parents and students at home.
"Most schools were trying to figure out how to do virtual instruction," Raja said. "We had all the components, and Binu came up with the idea that we could program a very simple virtual classroom setup that mimics the brick-and-mortar classroom and give it away free to all of our customers." "Most of what we did post-COVID-19 we gave away for free," Raja said. "From a revenue perspective, we were in a great situation — we had just closed our series A round of funding in early March." The goal was not to increase revenue, she added, but the number of users coming through the platform increased four times.
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