Education

New degree programs at a public university in Oklahoma include a master's in cybersecurity and a bachelor's in artificial intelligence, the latter of which will focus on how large language models function.

In light of overwhelming interest in the FCC's cybersecurity pilot program for K-12, a nonprofit think tank argues that it's time to either make the program permanent or rewrite E-rate to cover cybersecurity expenses.

Students of a private Catholic university in Houston are temporarily unable to access its website, log-on system, financial aid information and other resources after an intruder hacked into the university's servers.

A lawsuit involving several local governments, boards of education and other public entities alleges that social media companies knowingly caused harm to children and necessitated costly responses.

Through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA), the FBI will use university-led research and development to address weaknesses in the electric grid, water utilities and other systems and infrastructure.

Michigan’s cloud-based system, now in implementation, aims to integrate and refine data from across districts to provide deeper insights into student performance. A small-scale deployment is expected this month.

A new International Gaming Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has launched a new AI Research Hub (AiR Hub) to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing the gaming industry's digital transformation.

Personal information, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers, from former students in the Lexington-Richland 5 school district was posted online, the district has announced.

An Iowa college's $29 million renovation project added educational spaces for e-sports, cybersecurity, mechatronics and other programs to its career and technical education center.

While Georgia educators still have concerns about the potential of artificial intelligence to enable cheating and data collection, many of them are implementing new parameters, tools and even career pathways for AI.

Noting demand for the field and nearby technology and defense companies, university officials said the new program this fall will make cybersecurity careers more attainable to dual-enrolled and junior college students.

Intended to be flexible for students with social anxieties or full-time jobs, a district-run virtual school in North Dakota meets with every student family before enrollment to assess if online learning is right for them.

An analysis of 9,000 U.S. educators using SchoolAI shows that the more they use the platform, the more they gravitate toward teacher-facing features that support tasks like lesson planning and grading.

Amid so many technology tools designed to solve problems and augment or supplant human labor, university IT departments should not lose sight of the importance of a human touch in customer service.

San Francisco Unified School District teachers filed a state labor complaint after a new $20 million payroll system led to incorrect deduction of union dues, missing vacation pay and incorrect pay for substitutes.

Through its new Department of AI and Society, the university will allow students to enroll in academic programs that combine AI with traditional academic disciplines like communication, language and policy analysis.

United Independent School District is aligning school leaders with law enforcement, community groups and local nonprofits to teach students and parents about topics like cyber bullying and responsible screen time.

Their initiative will make available a new platform combining AI tools, labor market data and student input. It’s intended to help University of Hawaii graduates identify job opportunities and start their careers within the state.