Education

A partnership with the University of Mississippi Medical Center allows 440,000 K-12 students to get medical attention online for minor illnesses or mental health issues while public schools are out of session.

Shift_ed, a nonprofit that promotes career and technical education, transformed a school bus into the Mobile Innovation Lab, a makerspace with hands-on activities to expose middle schoolers to STEAM fields.

More than 120 students within the Laguna Beach Unified School District participated in an electric bike safety program in exchange for a permit to park their bike on campus amid concerns about speeding and safety.

The ed-tech company has launched a new College Data Adapter tool to synchronize major enterprise systems from Ellucian and Canvas, as well as managed IT services for cloud adoption and network security.

The nonprofit AI4K12 provides free resources and activity guides on its website, including important angles from which students and teachers should study AI. It is also developing curricula for Georgia public schools.

As a strategic partner for Louisiana State University's Institute for Energy Innovation, ExxonMobile will collaborate on research into carbon capture, advanced recycling, batteries and solar power.

A CyberCamp in southern Georgia is teaching high school students the basics of cybersecurity and Windows system administration, as well as introducing them to Linux, Ubuntu and Ubuntu Security.

Customer experience is at the top of the agenda for public-sector agencies. The opportunity for radical improvement extends to almost every service that governments deliver. We identify three issues that public-sector transformation efforts can address to keep citizens and their voices at the heart of digital experience.

Whether or not they agree with calls to halt innovation, many professors and computer scientists in higher education share the feelings of tech leaders that emerging AI needs oversight and regulation.

A gift from Henry and Susan Samueli will allow the University of California, Irvine's School of Engineering to form new multidisciplinary research institutes focused on public health, society and the environment.

A public university in Oklahoma is in the process of restoring its network and Internet-based services after disabling them in May due to a cybersecurity incident. Officials have found no evidence of data being stolen.

After a data breach exposed personal information of over 93,000 people, a private research university in Georgia faces two class-action lawsuits, one of which alleges it failed to train staff on cybersecurity protocols.

A new generation of AI-enabled classroom tools might help teachers and students move beyond the old “factory model” of education, which teaches all students at the same pace, to a more personalized model.

Two new labs at SUNY’s Albany campus are searching for cybersecurity vulnerabilities in open-source intelligence and IoT devices. Ten other labs are planned to open in the university’s cybersecurity college by 2025.

Chatbots driven by artificial intelligence might help schools scale tutoring programs and act as a sort of support staff for tutoring, but they're still prone to mistakes and can't pick up on subtle emotional cues.

A cybersecurity breach at San Diego Unified School District in October 2022 not only affected student medical information but also employees' Social Security numbers, bank account information, medical data and more.

Ivy Tech Community College will offer courses statewide to prepare students for jobs in fields of cybersecurity, data analytics, digital marketing and e-commerce, IT support, project management and UX design.

Using federal funds intended to help schools reopen safely after COVID-19, Utah has put energy-efficient air purifiers in 60 percent of its schools and 55 percent of its state-certified day care centers since last fall.