Higher Education

Nonprofit OpenStax, which makes free online learning materials, has partnered with tutoring firm Scalar Learning. Enhanced algebra and trigonometry books featuring YouTuber Huzefa Kapadia will be out soon.

Officials say plans to turn Purdue's Discovery Park District and the university into a focal point for emerging tech research and development efforts have made major progress in recent months.

Finalists from North Carolina, Indiana and Pennsylvania created technology to change how student outcomes are assessed in a $1 million contest run by XPRIZE and an arm of the U.S. Department of Education.

The University of Georgia has been awarded $1 million from the National Science Foundation's Regional Innovation Engines program for the Next Generation Agriculture project, which is a broad collaboration.

The two agencies, which provide curriculum for advanced high school classes, published very different policies on their websites, with one banning the use of generative AI and the other welcoming it.

Many online courses have low completion rates, and the new ed-tech platform Courus proposes to address this by tailoring lessons to each student's particular goals, interests and skill sets.

The private research university in Pennsylvania will use federal funding to establish an AI Institute for Societal Decision Making and develop tools that can respond to uncertain or rapidly changing situations.

SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany has purchased a new plasma technology tool from Oxford Instruments that could help researchers develop a computer chip containing 1 trillion transistors.

The higher ed enterprise software company Ellucian intends to expand its footprint globally through technology and sales partnerships with startups, tech giants and other players in the ed-tech space.

S.A.F.E., a new software tool from AMSimpkins and Associates in Georgia, is designed to detect and remove fake student applications, recommendation letters and other fraudulent admissions documents generated by AI.

Penn State, Westmoreland Community College, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Community College of Allegheny County will receive $1.5 million for spaces that give tech manufacturers access to equipment and services.

College ought to be a prime opportunity for human connection, something that shouldn't be outsourced to AI. We’re not going to outcompete the robots on efficiency, so let’s get better at being humans.

Researchers at a public university in Ohio are creating machine learning models for health care applications, including one that could analyze patterns of physiological symptoms and behavior.

A Texas resident whose personal information was stolen by hackers last year has filed a class-action lawsuit against the private Catholic university, seeking damages as well as requirements for auditing and testing.

The ed-tech platform Copyleaks has developed an AI-assisted tool to eliminate human bias and discrepancies in the grading process, aiming to provide consistency in grading while helping teachers save time.

Coding boot camps and educational programs are adapting to generative AI tools like ChatGPT, which are poised to transform several industries, by incorporating them into coursework and teaching students how to use them.

As enrollment declines and online options proliferate, colleges and universities are hoping gamification will help boost student participation and engagement in classroom and campus activities.

A new school at the University of Southern California will be dedicated to teaching data science and information technology to non-computer majors in order to prepare them for an increasingly digital world.