Higher Education

Jennifer Gonzalez, founder of the Cult of Pedagogy podcast and website, said thinking about education technology should go beyond the classroom to encompass school operations and even community problem-solving.

Former teacher and ed-tech consultant Monica Burns sees a wide-open future for education innovation with artificial intelligence, but she advises teachers to stay current with their capabilities and limitations.

The Institute for Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies, located within the business school at RIC’s Providence campus, hosts degree programs in computer science, cybersecurity and computer information systems.

Lawyers for a private research university in Georgia filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by students for damages from a cyber attack earlier this year.

The National AI Institute for Exceptional Education, a five-year project funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education, is harnessing AI to help young children with special needs.

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), together with a cybersecurity research center at UC Berkeley, are adding cybersecurity and associated skills to a UC internship program.

Campus, a national community college startup, is developing an online academic portfolio with the goal of keeping tuition rates at or below the maximum federal Pell Grant rate for low-income students.

University of Illinois professors have already seen suspicious and potentially dishonest behavior from students using artificial intelligence to write, but some are more worried about the long-term effects than others.

The movement to create online virtual campuses, or “metaversities,” continues even as slowly dropping costs have yet to make it widely accessible. The professional development required is another hurdle.

The state of West Virginia has set up a new website through Tutor.com to offer free test preparation and tutoring in 200 subjects, as well as help with job searches and applications, resumes and cover letters.

A student has filed a lawsuit against Lafayette College in federal court seeking a pro-rated refund for half a semester of classes she had to complete online when in-person classes stopped during the pandemic.

An internship program at the University of Central Missouri's Innovation Campus allows students to intern at local technology businesses, in fields such as software development and cybersecurity, while taking classes.

Regulations around generative AI are rapidly evolving. This list will keep you up to date on what governments are doing to increase employee productivity and improve constituent services while minimizing risk.

Professors at Wilkes University, Kings College, the University of Scranton and others are exploring AI's potential to help students refine their writing, and to help multilingual learners and those with disabilities.

Colorado House Republicans want to investigate why the state Department of Higher Education did not disclose a major data breach it discovered on June 14 until Aug. 4, beyond the legally required 30-day window.

The Center for Emerging Artificial Intelligence Systems (CEAIS) at the University at Albany is a research initiative with IBM to study the next generation of AI and how supercomputing tech might improve its performance.

Stanford University is looking into which of its systems and data were impacted by a cyber attack last week after the ransomware group Akira threatened to post 430 gigabytes of its internal data to the dark web.

The Colorado Department of Higher Education discovered a massive data breach June 14 and did not report it to the attorney general until early August, past the 30-day window required by state law.