The student-teacher faces a rowdy class. “We’re not going to have that kind of behavior in here,” she says. “It’s too loud in here to move on.” The students don’t pay much attention. A boy in the back ...

Can you learn empathy through interacting with a computer—even though, by definition, the skill requires understanding and sympathizing with real people? When Kathleen Marek first heard about virtual ...

During the pandemic, I have seen increasing interest in educational simulations. It makes sense. As students moved online, instructors needed new ways to assess the skills they were learning. At the ...