D2L has partnered with Copyleaks to integrate AI-based plagiarism detection into its D2L Brightspace learning platform.
With institutions of higher education experience enrollment declines — and steeper drops projected over the next few years — IT departments must align their efforts with their institutions’ strategies for addressing the downturns, according to a new brief from advisors at Info-Tech Research Group.
MongoDB University has announced new partnerships and initiatives to help close the widening software-development skills gap, according to a news release.
Tyton Partners' 2023 annual report, "Time for Class: Bridging Student and Faculty Perspectives on Digital Learning," notes that the premier concern of higher education faculty is preventing student cheating, mainly from the use of generative AI. This was up from being their number 10 concern in 2022.
Smart watches, smart earwear, and other wearables are expected to rebound this year after the wearable tech category experienced its first decline in 2022, according to a forecast from International Data Corp. The comeback in 2023 is expected to be modest, with greater growth through 2027.
In the first quarter of 2023, a massive 93% of detected malware from encrypted web traffic and 70% of malware from unencrypted web traffic came from zero day malware, according to a new report from WatchGuard Technologies. And 51 new ransomware variants were detected.
Learning platform company Cypher Learning has announced its release of Copilot, which uses a customized AI strategy to do 80% of the work to create complete, gamified courses and competency aligned assessments in mere minutes, according to a release.
Samsung Electronics America has introduced a new interactive display, model name “WAC” — the first Samsung interactive display solution built on the Android operating system.
The agenda for the 2023 Tech Tactics in Education conference has been revealed. The inaugural event will offer five tracks — two for K–12, two for higher education, and one for both — spotlighting data and IT security in the "new now."
ABI Research recently released a startling statistic: Malware targeting IoT devices climbed 700% during the pandemic.
