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North Kitsap School District in Washington is piloting an AI‑driven framework that integrates real‑time academic, behavioral and attendance data to reinforce its Multi‑Tiered System of Supports (MTSS). The initiative uses AI to generate instant feedback, easing teacher workload while sharpening student interventions. District leaders emphasized privacy safeguards, trust‑building measures, and alignment with strategic goals. The webinar, hosted by Education Week, offered practical steps for other districts to adopt AI safely and sustainably.
Edith Cowan University researchers have piloted a 20‑minute virtual reality de‑escalation program, I‑VADE, with 221 nursing students, finding a statistically significant boost in confidence for managing aggressive patients. The immersive training emphasizes communication, situational awareness, and decision‑making, and captures interaction...
City University of Hong Kong is embedding artificial intelligence, virtual reality and digital modelling tools across a wide range of programmes, from veterinary science to engineering and entrepreneurship. The university uses generative AI to augment research, guidance and assessment, while...
The University of Houston has partnered with Google to integrate its artificial‑intelligence tools into campus. The collaboration will deploy Google for Education, Gemini for Education, and NotebookLM to support teaching, research, and productivity. University leaders stress that students must develop...
Holmen School District in Wisconsin has built a custom AI assistant using Google Gemini to support its behavior intervention team. The tool draws on the district’s social‑emotional learning (SEL) playbook, helping staff quickly brainstorm conversation starters and skill‑building steps for...
The integration of artificial intelligence, extended reality (XR) and immersive simulation is redefining how surgeons learn to operate advanced robotic systems. FundamentalXR’s CEO Richard Vincent explains that data‑driven, scalable simulations combined with precise haptic feedback can replicate real‑world procedures in...
Rootly announced the launch of Rootly Academy, an AI‑powered incident response training platform that delivers realistic, 15‑30 minute simulations for engineers. The program includes two certification tracks—Incident Handler and Incident Commander—and provides post‑drill debriefs and skill‑analytics dashboards. Rootly partnered with...
Artur Zhdan founded GPTinf after his AI‑assisted college essays were flagged by detection tools, turning a personal setback into a business. Launched in late 2022, the platform now serves 25 million users in education, marketing and professional writing. GPTinf combines AI...
Southeast Asia can leapfrog traditional screen‑centric edutech by adopting embodied cognition, which ties movement, gesture and sensory experience to learning. The region’s high mobile‑phone penetration and persistent rural internet gaps create a fertile ground for low‑cost, offline‑first solutions that blend...
Training Room Online (TTRO) has teamed with AI‑driven metaverse firm UBU to launch Red Horizon, an immersive 3‑D simulation platform for corporate leaders, university students and early‑career programs. The system combines TTRO’s simulation pedigree with UBU’s virtual environment, featuring an...
Pathwright is a design‑focused learning management system that lets educators build modular "learning paths" for both K‑12 and professional audiences. Since its 2010 inception, the platform has served over 2 million learners, tracking more than 80 million completed steps. It supports self‑paced...
CNCF unveiled the Certification Advancement & Recertification Experience (CARE) program at KubeCon Europe, allowing advanced Kubernetes certifications to automatically renew foundational credentials. The initiative, effective Jan. 1 2026, streamlines credential maintenance for practitioners. Simultaneously, the Kubestronaut community topped 3,500 members, with over...
A cluster‑randomized trial in Malawi compared standard in‑person training with an enhanced digital training program for health care workers (HCWs) delivering HIV index case testing. The enhanced arm received 20 synchronous and asynchronous digital sessions featuring checklists, video vignettes, practice...
Schools and districts are adopting simulation‑based training tools to close the gap between theory and classroom practice. BranchED’s AuthenTECH Practice (ATP) platform leverages large language models to create realistic student interactions without requiring VR hardware. Early pilots, including a 2019...
The Army National Guard is launching "Disasterville," a traveling virtual‑reality program that brings three ten‑minute disaster simulations—earthquake, flash flood and wildfire—to high school gymnasiums across the United States this spring. Participants work in teams of five, using VR headsets and...
University of Chicago researchers partnered with Chicago Public Schools to test robot tutors in fourth‑grade SEL lessons. The experiment compared robots that used fictional, emotion‑laden dialogue with robots that spoke factually and admitted they had no feelings. Both robot groups...
UpGrad announced a term‑sheet to acquire Unacademy in an all‑stock transaction, marking the first major consolidation in India’s bruised edtech sector. Founder Ronnie Screwvala argues that the prevailing AI‑driven job‑loss panic is largely a marketing narrative, not a reality. UpGrad positions...
In a bonus episode of the Easy EdTech Podcast, host Monica Burns interviews STEM/AI education specialist Julie Willcott to outline the most consequential AI trends shaping K‑12 and higher‑education in 2026. The conversation highlights AI’s rapid embedding in everyday teaching,...
Healthcare hiring is accelerating, and medical assistants are among the fastest‑growing occupations. Traditional community‑college pathways cannot keep pace with the rising demand driven by an aging population, physician shortages, and cost pressures. Accredited online medical assistant programs now offer rigorous...
Utiva, an AI‑driven workforce platform, has been admitted to the Techstars accelerator, signaling its shift from pure talent training to providing end‑to‑end global hiring infrastructure. The company has already upskilled more than 200,000 professionals in 39 emerging‑market countries and partnered...
Mead School District’s AI Implementation Specialist Courtney Bock launched a four‑part professional development series to build AI literacy among teachers. Each 90‑minute session—covering AI fundamentals, ethics, classroom integration, and workflow automation—serves cohorts of about 25 educators and offers STEM clock...
Qualiphi, an Egypt‑based AI career services platform, completed a six‑figure acquisition of Career Club from iCareer in the second half of 2025. The deal expands Qualiphi’s AI‑powered ecosystem across Egypt and the GCC, adding virtual career centre tools and strengthening...
Cornerstone OnDemand unveiled the Spring 2026 Evolution of Cornerstone Galaxy, adding an AI‑Powered Course Assistant and Adaptive Learning Agent. The assistive and agentic tools embed contextual intelligence into learning, letting employees ask questions in‑session and receive role‑specific content recommendations without extra...
Google’s Gemini platform now offers Lyria 3, an AI music generator that produces 30‑second clips from short text prompts. Educators are experimenting with the tool to create catchy jingles that reinforce classroom concepts, though the output often sounds generic and lacks...
MasterClass is promoting a tiered subscription model that starts at $10 per month for single‑user access and goes up to $20 per month for a Premium plan that supports up to six users. The platform offers more than 200 on‑demand...
Lingokids, a tablet‑based edutainment platform, is positioning itself as a pre‑Switch gateway for young gamers, offering Marvel‑themed activities and other licensed content. The service reaches roughly 20 million children each month, with 14‑17% encountering iconic characters for the first time within...
A suite of self‑guided mindfulness courses has been added to the Community of Practice e‑learning platform, targeting a range of health concerns from dizziness and tinnitus to long COVID and chronic pain. Prices vary from free access to £98, with...
A randomized controlled trial in nine public secondary schools in Edo State, Nigeria tested a six‑week after‑school program where students used GPT‑4 under teacher supervision. Participants achieved learning gains of about 0.3 standard deviations in English, equivalent to roughly 1.5...
Interview Kickstart has unveiled an Advanced Generative AI Course aimed at engineers, data scientists, and AI practitioners. The program dives deep into large language models, prompt engineering, retrieval‑augmented generation, and model evaluation, emphasizing hands‑on project work over theory. Instruction is...
Kira unveiled its AI operating system for education at a New York launch, spotlighting the Student Atlas—a longitudinal data tool that delivers real‑time skill mapping, gap identification, and automated intervention plans. The platform also includes Course Studio, which can generate...
The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) has formally endorsed four third‑party providers of microcredentials, marking the first accreditor‑backed quality seal for short‑term certificates and digital badges. With over a million microcredential offerings nationwide, the market has grown faster than regulatory oversight,...
Google DeepMind is expanding its free AI Research Foundations curriculum across Africa, offering advanced, hands‑on courses that let learners build and fine‑tune generative language models. Developed with University College London and localized with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, the...
Universities are witnessing a parallel "shadow AI university" where digitally savvy students independently adopt generative AI tools for study, collaboration, and personal support. This informal ecosystem, flourishing on platforms like Discord and WhatsApp, amplifies learning for those with reliable devices,...
Training modules are self‑contained learning units that focus on a single skill or competency, allowing organizations to deliver scalable, repeatable education. By structuring content around clear objectives, assessments, and interactive activities, L&D teams can create flexible programs that support onboarding,...
Colonial Williamsburg, celebrating its 2026 centennial, has launched a pilot project that uses a large‑language model to create AI‑driven digital content for visitors and staff. The model is being trained on a broad corpus of 18th‑century philosophical treatises, letters, pamphlets...
ChatDOC is an AI‑powered platform that lets users upload PDFs and interact with the content via a chat interface, offering summaries, searches, and citation‑linked answers. The tool’s free tier permits up to five files and twenty queries per day, while...
Leah, an enterprise agentic AI platform, announced a partnership with Ulster University to embed its Leah Legal solution into the university’s Legal Innovation and Technology Law master’s program. The integration gives students practical exposure to AI‑driven contract review, document analysis,...
Montana Digital Academy unveiled the Frontier Learning Lab, a statewide hub offering AI, virtual reality and augmented reality tools to K‑12 students and teachers. The Lab addresses the chronic staffing and budget constraints of rural Montana districts by providing 24/7...
Centro Escolar University hosted the Mendiola Consortium’s Academic Conference on AI in education on March 11, 2026, marking the consortium’s 50th anniversary. The event gathered educators, administrators, and industry experts to explore AI’s role in learning, leadership, and service while...
Google announced AI Works for Europe, a coordinated effort to upskill the European workforce as AI is set to augment 61% of jobs and add €1.2 trillion to the region’s GDP over the next decade. Research shows 25% of entry‑level positions...
Griffith University has rolled out Salesforce’s Agentforce Education cloud across its contact centre, marketing communications and advancement units to replace a fragmented martech stack. By insourcing the student‑recruitment contact centre and consolidating phone, email, web‑form and chat into a single...
Babbel is offering a lifetime subscription for all 14 languages at a discounted price of $159 using the code LEARN, down from its $646.20 MSRP. The platform delivers short, 10‑15 minute lessons that fit into busy professional schedules and focuses...
University of New South Wales is scaling its AI Conversation Sim platform to more courses across medicine, law, business, journalism and information systems. The AI‑driven simulation offers immersive, web‑or VR‑based environments where students practice communication, decision‑making and professional interactions with...
The U.S. Labor Department launched an AI Workforce Hub to centralize AI literacy tools, the AI Literacy Framework, and hiring guidance for workers and employers. The hub aims to foster collaboration between education, workforce development, and private‑sector partners, addressing rising...
Allentown School District has rolled out CourseMojo, an AI‑powered chatbot, to sixth‑grade language arts classes, funded by a $45,000 Digital Promise grant. The tool analyzes student answers against the district’s StudySync curriculum and delivers instant, criteria‑based feedback. Teachers can monitor...
Recent K‑12 edtech mergers are deliberately pairing assessment platforms with curriculum providers, creating integrated learning ecosystems. Vendors argue that combined data and instructional content streamline instruction, personalize learning, and simplify district purchasing. The trend follows a wave of high‑profile deals,...
The Technological University of Shannon (TUS) has launched ReSHAPE, an AI‑powered digital platform aimed at upskilling professionals and aiding employers in Ireland’s midlands. Developed in partnership with Munster Technological University and the University of Limerick, the service provides skills audits,...
Zephyr Drone Simulator (ZDS) has incorporated a NIST‑validated payload‑delivery and retrieval test method into its platform, offering public‑safety drone pilots a standardized training and evaluation tool. The methodology, co‑developed by DRONERESPONDERS, NIST, OMADA Group, and CERRA, provides data‑driven performance benchmarks...
Tech & Learning’s 2026 EdTech to Watch webinar series showcased a curated set of K‑12 solutions, spanning primary literacy, AI tutoring, Google ecosystem management, hydroponic STEM labs, and campus security. Products highlighted included Reading Eggs’ four‑program literacy suite, Lincoln AI’s...
At the HR Vendors of the Year Awards 2025 in Malaysia, the Best Digital Learning Providers category highlighted leading employee‑development platforms. Think Codex captured Gold, SOCO earned Silver, and EQWIP took Bronze, each judged on technology, content quality and customization....
