By Michael Hart, THE Journal
A new partnership between two companies is designed to make it easier for teachers to create their own online courses, tutorials and homework assignments with interactive elements. Versal, a company that has offered an interactive publishing platform for online learning since its founding in 2013, and Wolfram Research, which creates customizable interactive elements such as timelines, diagrams and quizzes, will join forces in three ways:Educators will now be able to directly embed content based on Wolfram technology into courses they create using Versal software — without any coding required; Stephen Wolfram, who founded Wolfram Research in 1987, will join Versal’s board of directors; and simultaneously, new “gadgets,” the building blocks of Wolfram’s interactive learning elements, have been released, bringing the number available to educators to 48.
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