Education

The digital education company Edmentum will add curriculum materials from the nonprofit America Succeeds to its career and technical education courses to help students build “soft skills” like critical thinking and creativity.

If students pursue majors in AI within the isolated confines of a college of computing, without the grounding of a broader education, how can we expect them to make wise decisions about how that technology is applied?

The Center for Security Studies and Cyberdefense at a private Christian university in Indiana is training students to identify potential misuses of artificial intelligence in a variety of cybersecurity environments.

Rochester Community and Technical College's new two-year degree program will combine new courses with existing ones, both on-campus and online, and require the hiring of a new staff member.

Some experts say the new European Union Artificial Intelligence Act could have implications for U.S. ed-tech developers who sell products in the EU, especially if it influences domestic policy changes in the U.S.

The recent proliferation of costly cyber attacks on colleges and universities underlines the need for modern security information and event management, a proactive way of monitoring networks and flagging threats.

Two campuses in the University of California system are launching campus-wide, web-based artificial intelligence programs to help staff and faculty with their jobs. Students will get access to it later this year.

Two identical bills moving through the Ohio legislature would allow an eligible adult to “act in lieu of a driver training instructor while using an authorized electronic device or application.”

A private research university in New York is planning a masters program in cybersecurity that will give students hands-on opportunities with government partnerships like The Center for Identification Technology Research.

A 13-month study from Copyleaks found an encouraging decline in plagiarism, and most papers and assignments completed by high school and college students were not found to contain AI-generated text.

Mason City Community School District has moved on from the early catastrophizing about artificial intelligence to testing various use cases and defining how AI tools should be used by students and staff.

Where computer science has traditionally been divided among engineering and liberal arts colleges, the importance of the subject warrants a seat at the table as its own foundational discipline that incorporates others.

Sinclair Community College and the online learning company D2L have launched a free, self-paced cybersecurity course, expected to take one or two hours, to help local K-12 administrators stay ahead of cyber threats.

The online medical certification company MedCerts is combining AI with augmented reality to simulate training scenarios for nursing and medical students to practice diagnosing and interacting with patients.

Company officials hope a combination of in-person and online educator training, focused on math and less-experienced teachers, will help to address a teacher shortage and declining math scores.

UMass Chan Medical School and Lahey Hospital and Medical Center will launch a quantitative science research hub focused on researching different uses of digital medicine and health science.

Financial data that a cyber charter school submitted to the IRS shows revenue far exceeding expenses, while its graduation rate is 68.4 percent. Some district officials now want lawmakers to reform charter school funding.

Some students feel unfairly restricted by Fresno Unified School District's use of an app to regulate their trips outside classrooms during instructional periods. They are allowed two seven-minute bathroom breaks per day.