Education

Beaufort County School District is installing CEIA OPENGATE weapons detection systems to screen all students and visitors at its high school campuses. They will be manned by armed security guards from an outside firm.

Professors and students at Quinnipiac University developed a hands-free input system with AI and a standard webcam that allows people with limited mobility to communicate using facial gestures.

The university's business school has partnered with the online learning platform Coursera to give students free access to online continuing education classes and professional certificates from Google, IBM and Meta.

A webinar hosted by OpenAI this week spotlighted how school districts in Illinois, Texas and Arizona implemented and trained staff to use ChatGPT for instruction, operations and governance.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is considering moving its data and information science program out of the College of Letters and Science and into a new College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence.

Rochester Community and Technical College is the latest of a dozen Minnesota institutions that now provide two-year degree programs for which students can use online and AI-generated materials instead of textbooks.

Inundated by AI-generated work masquerading as human thought, a high school teacher in St. Louis writes that American education is threatened by both intellectual dishonesty and inequitable resources.

The Federal Trade Commission's proposed order to Illuminate Education would require the company to delete unnecessary student data, implement robust security controls and end misleading privacy claims.

In collaboration with NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, Sonoma State University students built and launched a satellite to monitor how solar wind interacts with the upper atmosphere.

If the federal government succeeds in dismantling the Department of Education, it could impact the sharing of new adaptive or assistive technologies, communication devices and workforce development programs.

A recent survey of school administrators found that 92 percent reported a “smooth transition” during the first few months of the state's new phone policy, and 83 percent reported a more positive and engaged environment.

Capitalizing on a surge of interest in personalized education, the collaboration seeks to make math learning more interactive and responsive through AI-powered feedback paired with teacher-led instruction.

Comparing the fall semester before COVID to this fall semester, UND has seen a 60 percent increase in students taking only online courses and a 98 percent increase in students taking both online and face-to-face courses.

A growing number of college professors are choosing to bar laptop and phone use in class, citing studies that show students who take notes by hand often perform better on tests.

A school district in western North Carolina canceled classes and shut down its network last week after detecting an intruder. As of last Tuesday, officials were still investigating and working to restore services.

The new 62,000-square-foot campus modernizes university-sponsored K-12 education with labs and collaborative spaces supporting biology, computing, robotics and more. A state budget appropriation helped fund it.

Towne Avenue Elementary in Carson, Calif., in a partnership with Ormat Technologies, now has a hands-on outdoor classroom powered entirely by renewable energy.

Princeton University is facing a pair of proposed class-action lawsuits alleging it failed to protect personal data exposed from a November phone-based phishing scam.