Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Tableau Software, the global leader in fast analytics and visualization software, today announced it is offering free on-demand training courses that offer tips and tricks for best utilizing Tableau's award-winning visual analysis applications. The courses demonstrate how to quickly spot the trends and relationships in any given data set and produce visually compelling and effective graphics. The new on-demand courses are in addition to the company's free, regularly scheduled, live training courses.

Researchers want to turn the sci-fi classroom of the future into a science fact, by linking the classroom with museums and science exhibitions using augmented reality. The CONNECT project goal is to unite formal curricula with informal learning to move education, especially science and technology, from boring to absorbing.
Students sit together silently absorbed in their classroom. Heads covered by virtual-reality visors, they watch a herd of grazing protoceratops, a sheep-sized dinosaur. The class gasps suddenly; a velociraptor just has leapt upon one of the grazing beasts.