EDUCATION SECTOR

3D printing provides a multitude of tools and benefits that can revolutionize learning and the Education Sector

If writers of textbooks for the education sector realize the importance of 3D printing, they would include files for 3D printable models with each chapter in their books.

This would provide for a fun, educational experience for students and teachers alike.

  • 3D Printing allows educators and trainers to print any physical visual aid they wish to clearly illustrate hard to grasp concepts.

  • 3D printed objects make it easy for educators and trainers to capture the attention and interest of students compared to traditional teaching aids.

  • 3D printing enhances hands-on interactive learning and unleashes creativity and innovation in students.

  • 3D printing allow students to design and produce realistic 3 dimensional models using equipment, tools, materials and CAD software. (great for engineering, architecture, and multi-media arts students).

  • 3D printing is of exceptional advantage to technical academic institutes and vocational training.

  • 3D printing provides limitless ways in which the technology can be utilized in the education sector.

TEACHING AIDS

3D printings body organs, geographical GIS data, prototypes, artistic designs, historic artefacts, molecular structures etc.

MAKER LABS

3D printings objects from the computer screen into students hands for inspection, analysis and other learning processes.

The shear joy and pride in creating a physical object you designed!

A few examples of how 3D Printing benefit students, the learning process and the whole Education Sector

3D Printing in Math

3D printing helps those students who have difficulty envisioning equations, elaborate graphs, and complex mathematical models to more easily see them through tangible 3D models.

Right; A gyroid, triply periodic minimal surface discovered by Alan Schoen. Left; A Seifert surface with boundary the Borromean rings.

3D Printing in Geography / Geology

3D printing is an excellent way for students to better understand geological formations on a scale that is not presentable through 2-dimensional images.

Imagine printing out scaled down models of certain mountain ranges, rivers, canyons, etc. It would be a way to give kids a hands-on look at famous locations around the world without having to actually be there.

3D Printing in History

Imagine if every history class had the ability to 3D print replicas of artefacts from a massive library of downloadable STL files.

Every classroom would now have access to museum artefacts from the luxury of their own school.

This is definitely much more interesting than reading chapter after chapter in a text book, with many students losing scope and interest and not comprehending what they have read.

3D Printing in Art & Crafts

3D Printing will open a whole new realm of possibilities for art and design classes with students being able to bring their designs to life via 3D printing.

3D Printing provides a brand new method of creating art. With 3D printing available in art classes around the world, our future artists will be the ones to really help the technology reach its potential in all of the different fields of art out there.