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Ellucian has announced the acquisition of EduNav, a provider of higher education academic planning and student success tools, according to a news release.
03/04/2024
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Higher education research, guidance, and project design organization Ithaka S+R has announced in a release that it is working on a "new, public, nonprofit, national credit mobility website" to launch later in 2024 in collaboration with several higher education institutions across Connecticut, South Carolina, and Washington.
03/04/2024
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released an update to its Cybersecurity Framework — the first since the guidance document was issued in 2014.
02/29/2024
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We spoke with OER advocate David Wiley about why generative AI is the logical successor to OER, AI's impact on instructional design, exciting AI developments on the horizon, and why it's too early for universities to write policies for generative AI usage.
02/28/2024
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The University of Maryland (UMD) has chosen Hewlett Packard's HPE Aruba Networking Edge Services Platform as its campuswide networking solution.
02/27/2024
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Microsoft has entered into a multi-year partnership with French AI startup Mistral AI to advance the development and deployment of next-gen LLMs. The collaboration marks a milestone on the road to bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and tangible, real-world AI applications, the companies said.
02/27/2024
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A first-of-its-kind "smishing" attack is using Amazon Web Services' Simple Notification Service, or SNS, to impersonate the United States Postal Service (USPS).
02/27/2024
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Macmillan Learning has launched a beta version of its AI Question Creator to run on the iClicker platform. The generative AI-driven application creates unique questions that can be used for quizzes, assignments, and polls, the company said.
02/26/2024
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In Cengage's annual digital learning pulse survey, roughly 95% of two- and four-year higher education administrators, faculty, and trustees responded that they expect generative AI tools to change their institution over the next five years.
02/22/2024
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Artificial intelligence will make research management smarter, easier to use, and more valuable — enabling quicker, better decisions for both researchers and administrators.
02/21/2024
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The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) has established a new Commission on Artificial Intelligence and Education, convening "leaders in education and business to chart a course for how AI is used in classrooms and how to prepare a workforce that is being transformed by technology."
02/21/2024
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The University of Kentucky has taken a transdisciplinary approach to developing guidelines and recommendations around generative AI, incorporating input from stakeholders across all areas of the institution. Here, the director of UK's Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching breaks down the structure and thinking behind that process.
02/21/2024
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Western Wyoming Community College is partnering with Uwill to expand mental health support resources to rural and working students, according to a news release. The Boston-based mental health and wellness provider will offer teletherapy opportunities to WWCC's more than 3,000 students.
02/20/2024
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Technical education nonprofit CodePath, Georgia State University (GSU), and Comcast have partnered to launch CodePath E3 (Emerging Engineer Empowerment), a computer science education program for historically underserved and underrepresented students interested in the technology industry.
02/20/2024
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AI-powered data security and management company Cohesity and multicloud data resilience company Veritas have announced a merger to take place by the end of 2024, pending regulatory approval and other closing conditions, they said in recent releases.
02/20/2024
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A new feature in ChatGPT will let users control what and how much it remembers from conversation to conversation — and also what it forgets.
02/15/2024
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Microsoft and OpenAI on Wednesday detailed how they jointly identified and shut down five state-sponsored hacking groups that were using OpenAI's LLMs "in support of malicious cyber activities."
02/15/2024
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The University at Albany (UAlbany) will be the first higher education institution anywhere to install the prototype IBM Artificial Intelligence Unit (IBM AIU) computing chip designed to run and train deep learning models faster and more efficiently than a general-purpose CPU.
02/14/2024