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Arizona State University is expanding its use of an online calculus application with built-in artificial intelligence. Currently, two courses — Calculus for Business and Calculus for Engineering — are using Gradarius from Castle Point Learning Systems, which personalizes the learning based on topics already understood and those still to be learned. The university expects to […]
NEW YORK and BOSTON – May 1, 2019—McGraw-Hill and Cengage today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock merger on equal terms. The transaction, which has been unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies, will bring together two premier learning companies that will deliver significant […]
The use of VR in psychology experiments is being driven not just by increasingly affordable technology but also by concerns about the reproducibility of many real-world studies. But do humans really behave in the virtual world as they do in reality? And does it matter? David Matthews investigates Times Higher Education
Most of the publicized examples of adaptive learning focus on its use in improving student outcomes in STEM courses, but some universities are seeing promising examples in the humanities as well. For example, the University of Mississippi Department of Writing and Rhetoric is using adaptive learning to help first-year writing students grasp rhetorical concepts. Campus […]
NEW ORLEANS, July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Blackboard Inc. today announced updates to its Web conferencing platform with the release of Blackboard Collaborate™ 12. With the new version, Blackboard Collaborate adds enhanced integrations for leading learning management systems (LMS), user experience improvements that make the system easier to use and more accessible, and plans to add […]
One of the more intriguing new developments teased at the annual conference of the Consortium for School Networking, being held here this week: Google is starting to provide cloud storage for K-12 districts, helping them warehouse the massive amounts of data they collect on their students, then offering artificial intelligence-as-a-service to help districts analyze the […]
Modest investments in the Internet of Things can have a significant impact on students’ journey through college. Here’s how one institution implemented IoT tech to provide extra student supports in key areas. Campus Technology
spent millions of dollars developing tools to help instructors improve their teaching. Now other institutions are invited to use them, too. Inside Higher Ed
I usually see artificial intelligence explained in one of two ways: through the increasingly sensationalist perspective of the media or through dense scientific literature riddled with superfluous language and field-specific terms. There’s a less publicized area between these extremes where I think literature needs to step up a bit. News about “breakthroughs” like that stupid […]
Adobe is teaming up with innovative, forward-thinking higher education institutions, such as New York University, to incorporate Adobe digital skills into their Professional Studies Graduate programs while partnering with Adobe customers during the students’ journey to include applied learning to resolve real business issues these organizations are facing. Adobe
