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Microsoft has announced the next updates to its Microsoft 365 Copilot AI assistant, including expanded AI capabilities in individual apps, the ability to create autonomous agents, and a new AI-powered collaboration workspace.
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Microsoft has announced that the unified Teams app is now available for Windows 11, Windows 10 and macOS users.
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Microsoft Loop, the online collaborative platform in Microsoft 365, is getting a number of new features and an overall redesign.
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Veteran-founded National University (NU) in San Diego has launched a pilot project with digital community platform InScribe to provide emotional and academic support to students in real time online.
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In its second annual 2023 "Study Trends Report," McGraw Hill found that college students were feeling unprepared for their courses, but also that they have turned to generative AI and social media to study and would like more learning resources in a similar format.
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The Midwestern Higher Education Compact has partnered with AI and data analytics provider SAS to allow academic institutions in 47 states to access SAS’ Viya unified analytics platform at a significant discount, the organizations announced today at Educause.
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Zoom has globally launched its new Zoom One for Education plan, offering a unified communications and collaboration licensing option designed specifically for education organizations, according to a news release.
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Microsoft has announced two new search features: Bing Chat Enterprise for Faculty and Search Progress, a new learning accelerator built into Teams Assignments.
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Digital asset management platform PhotoShelter has unveiled a new feature called AI Visual Search, giving brand subscribers the ability to search their entire brand library based on visual descriptions and eliminating the need to manually add metadata to images, according to a news release.
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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.
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MongoDB University has announced new partnerships and initiatives to help close the widening software-development skills gap, according to a news release.
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Samsung Electronics America has introduced a new interactive display, model name “WAC” — the first Samsung interactive display solution built on the Android operating system.
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Territorium has become the first U.S. ed tech company to earn CLR 2.0 and Open Badges 3.0 certifications from 1EdTech, furthering the standardization of digital credentials — or “comprehensive learner records” — that are easily shared between digital wallets, the company said.
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On a “mission to fix the antiquated Career Services Center” system, Hallo has launched a revamped website for connecting students to career opportunities, and it features a personalized, AI-powered career coach named Boris, the company said in a news release.
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In the first six weeks of educators using Turnitin’s new AI writing detection feature, the platform processed 38.5 million submissions, and the results — as well as plenty of feedback from educators and administrators — led Turnitin to tweak the detector and to further explain the meaning and accuracy rates of the detection scores.