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In a virtual panel discussion Friday, several professors shared their experiences with having students use generative AI for writing assignments and recommended that students be allowed to learn by trial and error.
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Soelect, a startup that makes components for EV batteries, is working with area community colleges to host courses in quality control, battery testing and battery manufacturing at its facility in Greensboro.
With state funding from the Department of Development, Ohio State University will connect high-speed Internet to a site that will be used as a demonstration area and proving grounds for autonomous farming equipment.
In preparation for the draining of the Navy's underground Red Hill fuel storage facility, the University of Hawaii at Manoa launched an online hub of data and tools that could be used for education and research.
A partnership between two ed-tech giants will integrate K16’s data management functions within Instructure’s Canvas LMS to streamline the time-consuming process of organizing and archiving potentially sensitive data.
For the time being, it will be up to individual professors to decide how they will tackle artificial intelligence in the classroom, from warning students about cheating to preparing them to be leaders in the field.
Guidance on student use of generative artificial intelligence in college applications varies widely across North Carolina, but universities broadly expect students not to submit AI-generated writing as their own.
The tech giant gave $1 million grants to San Jose State, Bowie State and Winston-Salem State universities with the goal of expanding access to digital literacy and creative skills and empowering diverse new talent.
With the help of an outside firm investigating, the university learned in July that, as far back as 2021, a hacker accessed some 7 million Social Security numbers of applicants, students and employees dating to 1989.
A memorandum of understanding between Georgia Tech and Hyundai Motor Group will establish workforce training and curricula for Hyundai’s EV and battery factory near the Georgia coast and a battery plant in Bartow County.
As one way to develop new talent for jobs in artificial intelligence, Colby College in Maine created an intensive summer program that trains students in AI and has them pitch ideas for new products to a panel of judges.
A former student of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, at which a gunman murdered 14 students in 2018, built a smartphone app that uses AI to suggest mindfulness activities for people based on how they feel.
Bridgewater State University CIO Steve Zuromski said the recent hack at MGM Resorts International is a reminder that there are too few experts in the field of cybersecurity, with 20,000 open jobs in Massachusetts alone.
Virtual reality has had a mixed reception in higher education, but few applications have caught on more than in nursing and health-care fields, where the technology is giving students practice with high-risk scenarios.
Education is poised for a new chapter as generative AI is introduced in classrooms, and while that comes with a healthy amount of concern, it also offers new possibilities that we're only just beginning to uncover.
A grant from the Steinman Foundation to the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design will support technology and classrooms for a new degree program preparing students to work in the live entertainment industry.
