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Immerse Learning (formerly called Languagelab.com) is an English school based in an Online Virtual World. It is the first school that teaches exclusively online in a virtual environment; students and teachers use avatars to navigate the environment and take part in lessons. Lessons are also completely contextual, which is in direct contradiction to the traditional classroom system. ==History== Immerse Learning was founded in 2005 as Languagelab.com in London by David Kaskel and Shiv Rajendran.〔http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/03/language-lab-developer-million-funding.html〕 Having been amazed at how quickly foreign players had picked up language skills in MMORPGs, Kaskel began to look into how learning took place in video games. To date Languagelab.com has 80 employees based in 14 different countries and caters to about 1000 students (2011). Languagelab.com raised $1 Million USD in funding in 2011 from investors in the UK and Saudi Arabia.〔http://www.kirstenwinkler.com/languagelab-secures-1-million-funding-for-english-city-on-second-life/〕〔http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/03/language-lab-developer-million-funding.html〕 Languagelab.com teaches English to students from more than seventy countries. In 2011 Languagelab.com announced a partnership with Pearson Education to produce a virtual world product for Business English. The product is called Market Leader Live and contains content from the Financial Times.〔http://www.americantesol.com/tesol-video-feed5.html〕〔http://bigthink.com/ideas/37891〕 In February 2014, Languagelab.com relaunched as (Immerse Learning ) with a proprietary immersive learning platform designed specifically for corporate and higher education programmes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Immerse Learning」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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