UltiMaker has introduced the beta launch of MakerBot Nebula, an AI-powered differentiated studying platform that mixes 3D printing, educator assist, and personalised studying for college kids.
Designed particularly for lecture rooms, MakerBot Nebula has been designed to assist lecturers simply ship artistic studying experiences that ‘make an enduring impression.’
Described as an end-to-end studying expertise, MakerBot Nebula is proffered as an answer that may meet the rising demand for ‘easy-to-use, scalable, student-centred studying options.’ It’s stated to create an surroundings the place educators can increase instruction, with each pupil’s journey being personalised due to a set of AI brokers that present assist for educators by offering them with extra visibility into pupil efficiency.
MakerBot Nebula’s Studying Station, Expertise Builder, and Funding Assistant instruments enable educators to develop their expertise, construct student-centred studying pathways, and entry grant alternatives. With Studying Station, lecturers can learn to arrange and function UltiMaker and MakerBot 3D printers, apply classroom finest practices, and discover design pondering – although printer-specific superior troubleshooting and course certificates is not going to be out there within the beta model. Expertise Builder helps lecturers flip their educational objectives into ‘dynamic, differentiated studying journeys’ with the platform providing assist for pupil pacing, type, and progress monitoring. Funding Assistant, in the meantime, has been designed to offer entry to funding and sources, typically thought-about a barrier to bringing know-how into the classroom. MakerBot Nebula features a built-in Funding Assistant that connects educators to related grant alternatives and helps them by means of the grant writing course of. Lecturers reply a number of questions and obtain AI-assisted steering in drafting sturdy purposes, immediately within the platform. In beta, solely MakerBot Grants will likely be out there, with extra alternatives to come back.
“MakerBot has all the time believed in studying by means of making. We’ve seen, firsthand, how 3D printing brings STEM studying into the classroom, opening doorways to design pondering and problem-solving,” stated Dottie Stewart, VP Gross sales America & International Schooling Technique at UltiMaker. “However as lecture rooms develop into extra demanding and college students’ wants extra numerous, instruments alone aren’t going to be sufficient. That’s why we created MakerBot Nebula, a brand new sort of studying platform that connects know-how, pedagogy, and creativity in a single seamless expertise.”
Alongside the launch of the beta model of the MakerBot Nebula platform, the MakerBot Grants, as a part of the MakerBot Provides Again Initiative, are actually open for purposes. These grants are eligible to all Ok-12 educators in america and Canada, and would offer them with every thing they should carry 3D printing into their lecture rooms, whether or not they’re skilled or simply beginning out.
Valued at over $4,000, every grant contains:
– One MakerBot Sketch Dash 3D printer
– 20 spools of PLA filament
– One copy of the MakerBot Educators Guidebook
– Classroom Certification (seats for one instructor and 30 college students)
– A 3-year UltiMakerCare service plan for the MakerBot Sketch Dash 3D printer
“With MakerBot Nebula, we’re combining 15 years of classroom expertise with the facility of AI to ship a platform that really adapts to how lecturers train and college students study,” added Andrea Zermeño, MakerBot Schooling Supervisor at UltiMaker. “MakerBot Nebula is designed to assist customised studying journeys, empower educators, and convey artistic, hands-on training to life in methods which can be private, versatile, and impactful. We intention to encourage the following era of problem-solvers, creators, and thinkers, by giving them the instruments to carry concepts to life.”
