by MARY ELLEN ELLIS, Teacher Certification Degrees
Virtual courses are becoming increasingly prevalent in educational settings from kindergarten through college. Online education has many advantages including lower costs and, depending on the quality of the course, greater student engagement. Along with the rise in online courses comes greater use of technology. Virtual classes are beginning to implement gaming as a way to engage students and to make the experience of online learning more interactive. Advances in technology have made it much easier to create and build online games, which means that they have proliferated over the last few years. Education has not been left out of this trend and many games are created with learning in mind. Some are free or inexpensive apps, like xGerms Counting, an app created by the company K12 Inc. that helps youngsters practice counting while playing a game.
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