The focus on data is intentional: While other classes teach ag students how to repair combines or learn the proper chemical mixes of common fertilizers, students in agricultural economist Kevin Moore's "Returning to the Farm" class create business plans using financial information from their own family farms.

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In doing so, it is the first company to offer a real 3D interactive learning and visualization environment to transform the way educators teach while introducing new capacities that broaden students' ability to learn.

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The variety and diversity of opinion regarding what we should teach, what students need to learn, and what purposes our system of higher education should serve is loud, fractious and counter-productive.

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Furthermore, the fx-CP400 features a variety of functions designed to help students learn and instructors teach at school, including a USB mass storage function for quick and easy data transfer, and compatibility with Casio data projectors to enable the calculator's display to be projected on a screen.

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"Being able to work with the faculty and students at an organisation like Cleveland Clinic will help us learn how to more efficiently teach and adapt Watson to a new field through interaction with experts, " said David Ferrucci, principal investigator of the Watson project.

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