Virtual Reality Simulations - New Power Trend for Learning

Maggie, again, this is first-class work, and it earns full credit. FYI, an opportunity may open in 2013 for your humble servant here to partner with a friend to launch a VR (virtual reality) lab! The launch cost would be $1 million, his estimate. He has two Ph.D.'s from Iowa State University, one in Industrial Technology, and the other in Educational Measurement. He is brilliant! He and I see what you see. Simulations, also known as virtual reality, are the wave of the future and will radically restructure education. In fact, Gerald Celente, one of America's top trend forecaster, sent his newsletter today with his predictions for 2013. Among his top ten predictions, at number nine, is the emergency of simulations, virtual reality as the next major trend in education - at all levels. Therefore, your desire to do doctoral research on applying simulations (virtual reality) to nursing education is rich with profitable, professional, and personal potential! You are on trend, big time. I want to create this VR lab as a private business, not a university-owned resource. He has tenure at the University of Wisconsin, and I do not want him to give it up to launch a business. Rather, I become the CEO, due to flexibility of my time demands - and lack of tenured work - while he remains President - of a private, for-profit, off-campus, possible teamed with the campus as a private venture partner. This builds equity for us, while he builds his tenure retirement checks. I am excited about this possibility, which is one of the reasons why for the past several weeks your humble servant's intuition has been forecasting a very good 2013 coming. I share this model, since you may want to carefully consider if you want to launch your own private simulation business instead of doing R&D for your employer that gives you no equity. Think carefully about how you will apply your research findings - in the market as a business or as part of a learning organization. Dr. Rux