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MCL served as the research subcontract partner to Simiosys, LLC on a project to explore the feasibility of using emerging media technology to develop a unique teacher training environment. Partners on the project included the UCF College of Education, the UCF Interactive Performance Lab, and the Haberman Educational Foundation. The scenario developed and tested was to help train teachers in classroom management. The virtual scenario asked participants to take part in a two-step process - first, they went through the Haberman Star Teacher interview, which has been in use in some of the largest urban school systems in the US for decades. Next, they went through the testing scenario, where they were faced with a class of five virtual middle schoolers in an urban school environment.

Funded by Simiosys, LLC as part of a Phase I SBIR project through the US Department of Education.