Digital Transformation

The Minnesota school district surveyed parents and staff about whether to schedule additional "digital learning days," and many respondents expressed concern about schedule disruptions and lost instructional time.

Wilson Central School District has a three-year contract with Paper, a 24-hour chatroom accessible from the district's website that can walk students through problems and review their essays.

Researchers at the University of Missouri will use $12 million awarded by the U.S. Department of Education to research classroom applications for speech recognition tools and game-based learning.

In many Kentucky districts such as Owensboro Public Schools, a lack of state funding for classroom materials combined with the flexibility and selection of digital texts has made traditional textbooks less common.

The Minnesota school district is using a new grading system in which homework is optional and students can retake tests until they pass, but many teachers say kids aren’t learning or being prepared for the real world.

The game-based Luca & Friends app uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to integrate education and fitness, challenging kids to answer quiz questions using basic movements such as stretching or jumping.

The U.S. Department of Education has created an online system for gathering data on how COVID-19 relief funds have been used by K-12 schools in each state, which will be shared with other schools and the public.

The San Francisco-based company’s new tool uses artificial intelligence to create personalized coaching programs for teachers, particularly when traditional professional development options are scarce or unavailable.

A partnership between Florida International University and Factory360, a marketing agency in South Florida, intends to prepare hospitality students for the technology and protocols involved with hybrid events.

With students falling behind over months or years of remote learning, online tutoring has become a popular solution, and certain design principles might help make it effective at scale for millions trying to catch up.

Los Angeles Unified School District will require students who are physically in class to be vaccinated starting this fall, but it’s creating up to six new virtual schools that could enroll 15,000 kids if necessary.

With help from his computer science teacher, a recent graduate of Deering High School in Maine created an app that has caught on in local schools and received a major financial investment from Faria Education Group.

A literacy campaign by the California Department of Education and Wisconsin-based Renaissance Learning has yielded impressive results, leading state Superintendent Tony Thurmond to extend the partnership.

A pair of tech-focused initiatives, the Cal State University system's C-SUCCESS and the CSUF TitanWare program, provide incoming students with tablets, laptops and other devices students need for connectivity.

The software-as-a-service platform is now available across all 50 states, as parents and employers increasingly see flexible child-care options as essential to increasing workforce participation and retention.

To accommodate visitors who want or need to maintain social distancing, the University of Montana Museum of Arts and Culture has created interactive, 360-degree "virtual docent tours" available on its website.

The online tutoring company counts about 100 school districts as clients, many of which are looking to remote academic support to help students make up learning loss as money pours in from state and federal relief bills.

To meet evolving student expectations, the university has created a working group to explore investments and technology that would create infrastructure and a plan for remote learning options and online classes.