NMC Horizon Report Highlights simSchool
Summary
Pragmatic Solutions, Inc. headquartered in Westlake Village, CA, is a data modeling innovator with extensive organizational expertise in creating stable, scalable database and server architecture conducive to business information and learning management systems.Over the past decade, Pragmatic has worked at the leading edge of systems design, exploring how advanced data collection, inference and analysis tools can be used to impact performance, engagement, and learning in simulations, games, virtual worlds, and other interactive web environments.This volume, the NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition was again produced in a collaborative effort with the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, an EDUCAUSE Program, and examines emerging technologies for their potential impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry within the higher education environment.For more information on the NMC Horizon Report please visit http://www.nmc.org/news/and-eli-release-horizon-report-2012-hied-edition or http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2012.pdfAbout simSchool and CurveShift:simSchool is a classroom simulation that supports the rapid accumulation of a teachers experience in analyzing student differences, adapting instruction to individual learner needs, gathering data about the impacts of instruction, and seeing the results of their teaching.Over the past decade, Pragmatic has worked at the leading edge of systems design, exploring how advanced data collection, inference and analysis tools can be used to impact performance, engagement, and learning in simulations, games, virtual worlds, and other interactive web environments.Pragmatic’s systems currently influence tens of millions of users’ online experiences around the world.About NGLCNGLC reflects a unique synergy resulting from the blended expertise, leadership, and credibility of both institutional and technology leaders who share a commitment to resolving the educational challenges our students – and the country - faces , and to expanding the adoption of proven innovations within timelines that will demonstrate measurable impact on the problems of the day.