Southern University to Boost VR Teacher Training, Broadband Access - Government Technology

January 03, 2023 • 

(TNS) — Students astatine Southern University volition person the accidental to prosecute successful an expanded virtual learning acquisition soon acknowledgment to a $6.2 cardinal assistance awarded to the assemblage for virtual world equipment, accrued broadband Internet entree and more.

Southern volition usage the assistance to grow virtual immersion teacher grooming astatine the Lab School. Aspiring educators determination tin get hands-on, real-world acquisition done VR headsets.

The funds volition enactment the Southern University Reaching Across the Digital Divide (SURADD) project, which aims to adjacent the integer disagreement by forming a K-12 workforce pipeline to prosecute mediate schoolhouse teacher candidates, objective educators, and assemblage module and students with interactive VR spaces and tools successful innovative acquisition efforts and workforce training.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded Southern the funds arsenic portion of the Connecting Minority Communities, oregon CMC, programme that volition nonstop a full of $268 cardinal to grow high-speed Internet entree and connectivity to colleges and universities.

"Southern University has ever been connected the cutting edge, and today's grant volition assistance to guarantee that it stays that way," said Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo. "It was the archetypal instauration successful Louisiana that aspiring Black teachers could attend, and today, it's preparing the adjacent procreation of teachers with the latest technologies similar virtual classrooms."

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