How will the technology landscape in higher education change in the coming year? We're inviting our readership to weigh in with their predictions, wishes, or worries for 2026.
Higher education still holds the potential to combine intellectual depth with career readiness, but traditional approaches to teaching and learning no longer suffice.
Oregon Institute of Technology recently announced it is collaborating with Google Public Sector to implement Google Cloud's AI and high-performance computing across the institution.
Academic environments face heightened risk because their collaboration-driven environments are inherently open, making them more susceptible to attack, while the high-value research data they hold makes them an especially attractive target. The question is not if this data will be targeted, but whether universities can defend it swiftly enough against increasingly AI-powered threats.