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October 26, 2023
Upgrade to Microsoft 365 Education A5
With the rapid transition to digital learning and the increased need for device management in education institutions, we understand the importance of providing secure digital environments for all staff and students. Microsoft 365 Education A5 includes a comprehensive set of management, security, privacy, and compliance solutions to help schools meet this need and more, including features like Learning Accelerators, Education Insights, and Unified Communications that enhance teaching, learning, and working. Paid users, such as faculty and staff, benefit from all of these features, and the student use benefit makes a subset of the features available to students at no cost.
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October 19, 2023
Microsoft’s AI Classroom University Hackathon: A global challenge for students
AI is changing the way our world works in real-time, and nowhere will this trend be more impactful than for the students who will inherit the future. The current wave of AI innovation is built on top of a foundation of data. Even the best technology is only as good as the data being used and even more importantly—the people building those solutions.
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October 09, 2023
Advancing opportunities for AI in higher education
Last month, LinkedIn released their Future of Work Report and found that new AI tools have the potential to lighten workloads and help professionals, like educators, focus on the most critical parts of their job.
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November 29, 2022
How Microsoft is partnering with education institutions to help improve the future of work
Coming out of the pandemic, education systems have faced huge challenges, including a shortage of skilled teachers, the rising cost of education, a cumulative learning loss, and increased awareness of the inequality of access to learning.
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October 13, 2022
How can higher education create the next digital campus?
In the past few years, I have spoken to vice chancellors, university presidents, CIOs, and deans from the world's largest and most prominent universities. What I found is they share 3 common initiatives to improve the quality of higher education (HED) for students, educators, and administrators:
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September 15, 2022
Accelerate learning by providing quality feedback
Feedback is a cornerstone of teaching and learning, but what type of feedback is beneficial for students? For secondary and higher education, new research offers up some answers.
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June 16, 2022
How Immersive Reader Helped a Student Succeed in School and Life
Thanks to the evolution of education technology, more students with learning difficulties are finding accommodations that help them thrive in the classroom and in life.
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June 02, 2022
Higher education faculty, the new knowledge workers
In the last of a series of four whitepapers created by The Economist and sponsored by Microsoft, the authors note the correlation between knowledge work and higher education. In the whitepaper, called “Leveraging technology to humanise the learning experience: Key lessons higher education can learn from ‘knowledge worker’ companies,” the authors also suggest best practices that education institutions can implement from knowledge work to better engage and connect with students.
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February 22, 2022
Driving innovation and equity in higher ed with multimodal learning
As higher education institutions continue to adapt their program offerings and instruction to the changing needs of students, they are also facing the dual challenges of addressing equity issues exacerbated by the pandemic and attracting and engaging learners spanning different lifestyles, life-stages, and learning styles.
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October 26, 2021
Universities drive personalized experiences with Microsoft
Today, personalized learning and experiences are even more critical as higher education institutions compete to attract students from arguably the most diverse population of learners in history.
