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Sophomores converged on West Virginia University Institute of Technology college campuses for the 31st annual Health Sciences & Technology Academy camp, designed to prepare them for careers in tech and other fields. -
Artificial intelligence places whole term papers and complex mathematical solutions within the grasp of today’s students. Rather than simply banning it, educators must train themselves and provide what it cannot.
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Citing redundancies in the federal government, the Trump administration's new workforce development partnership shifts oversight of adult education and career training programs to the Department of Labor.
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S.A.F.E., a new software tool from AMSimpkins and Associates in Georgia, is designed to detect and remove fake student applications, recommendation letters and other fraudulent admissions documents generated by AI.
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Penn State, Westmoreland Community College, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Community College of Allegheny County will receive $1.5 million for spaces that give tech manufacturers access to equipment and services.
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College ought to be a prime opportunity for human connection, something that shouldn't be outsourced to AI. We’re not going to outcompete the robots on efficiency, so let’s get better at being humans.
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Researchers at a public university in Ohio are creating machine learning models for health care applications, including one that could analyze patterns of physiological symptoms and behavior.
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A Texas resident whose personal information was stolen by hackers last year has filed a class-action lawsuit against the private Catholic university, seeking damages as well as requirements for auditing and testing.
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The ed-tech platform Copyleaks has developed an AI-assisted tool to eliminate human bias and discrepancies in the grading process, aiming to provide consistency in grading while helping teachers save time.
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Coding boot camps and educational programs are adapting to generative AI tools like ChatGPT, which are poised to transform several industries, by incorporating them into coursework and teaching students how to use them.
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As enrollment declines and online options proliferate, colleges and universities are hoping gamification will help boost student participation and engagement in classroom and campus activities.
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A new school at the University of Southern California will be dedicated to teaching data science and information technology to non-computer majors in order to prepare them for an increasingly digital world.
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Advanced chatbots could be used as powerful classroom aids that make lessons more interactive, teach students media literacy, generate personalized lesson plans and even save teachers time on administrative tasks.
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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin were able to successfully glean the gist of a person’s thoughts by pairing a brain scanner with an AI language model, generating concerns about ethical uses of brain data.
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An analysis by the Virginia-based cybersecurity firm GuidePoint Security found a 17 percent increase in ransomware attacks on schools since last quarter, and almost half of cases globally involve U.S. public entities.
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While administrators say there's no evidence of compromised data, the university network lost many key functions over the weekend, leaving students to use hotspots while finishing final projects and preparing for exams.
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The exhibition came about through a partnership between community colleges and universities across the state to share simulations, senior projects and opportunities in cybersecurity with current and prospective students.
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A public university in Georgia will collaborate with Savannah River National Laboratory in research and global security projects related to cybersecurity, cyberphysical systems, data analytics and quantum cryptography.
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K-12 schools and universities in several states are using gamification to teach science through virtual experiments, simulators and LMS integrations like those offered by the global ed-tech company Labster.
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An annual report from the market research firm EducationDynamics, which surveyed over 3,000 current and prospective higher ed students, assessed tuition, marketing and other factors in attracting online students.
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The university has tapped a six-year, $17 million grant from Canada's New Frontiers in Research Fund for an international research project to involve Indigenous scholars in the training of new AI models.
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