Education

The university's dining provider has partnered with the San Francisco-based Starship Technologies to use six-wheeled robots for delivering food and drinks within a four-mile radius of a central restaurant area.

Engineers at the university's Homewood campus in Baltimore are working on a robotically assisted surgical device that would make the delicate work of suturing more consistent, potentially minimizing complications.

The private Catholic institution is in the process of developing and equipping an esports facility on campus, to train students to play video games competitively against other colleges and at the national level.

A school district in Odessa, Texas, has adopted a highly structured virtual tutoring program that connects students with instructional support from other parts of the country and pays the contractor based on results.

A volumetric motion capture studio at the NSU Broward Center of Innovation will create 360-degree images of environments, such as a crime scene or a surgery patient's body, to train students for real-world situations.

In the decade between 2009-2019, the number of students completing a teacher-education program in the U.S. declined by almost a third. The profession also faces problems with diversity, politics and shrinking programs.

Most students report having been cyber bullied, but some schools have been able to reduce incidents by hiring additional counselors and creating online portals to report bullying and putting links to them everywhere.

The University Consortium Research Opportunity partnership will increase collaboration between the U.S. Space Force, Air Force and universities for research into various aspects of space, physics and related technology.

An annual report from the language learning app Preply says the user base for its online program is three times what it was before the pandemic. The company’s CEO expects the popularity of e-learning to sustain.

The Coleridge Initiative’s Democratizing Our Data Challenge will fund the efforts of 10 winning teams from 21 government agencies and seven universities to expand projects related to education and employment outcomes.

The University of South Carolina's Pacer Center for Excellence in Business Research and Entrepreneurship will be a training hub with expertise in data mining, business analytics, cybersecurity and other subjects.

School districts in Northern Indiana are using online or blended learning options, learning management systems, smaller class sizes, new curriculum maps and targeted interventions to make up for recent learning loss.

The chancellor's office last year requested that the state's community colleges submit reports on enrollment fraud involving fake student bots, and nearly 40 percent failed to do so, exacerbating concern about the issue.

A report from a U.K.-based research firm projects the e-learning market for U.S. colleges and universities will grow by 20 percent annually as it focuses on product development, partnerships and skill-building programs.

A Washington, D.C., nonprofit is promoting a new approach to K-12 that replaces the old “factory model,” one-size-fits-all schooling with prerecorded lectures, small-group lessons and mastery-based testing.

An editorial co-written by the mayor of Miami and a former governor of Florida praises work by the city and Miami Dade College to launch a tech-focused charter school amid the burgeoning tech industry there.

Gary Community School Corp. is working with local partners to put free Wi-Fi in six city parks, increase broadband subscriptions, attract e-commerce and provide technology training for seniors.

New Hampshire education officials have approved Uptime Esports as a new Learn Everywhere program, offering lessons focused around competitive gaming, coding, engineering, game design and computer building.