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The latest news related to the meaningful and effective implementation of educational technology and e-learning in K-12, higher education, corporate and government sectors.
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Looking for a Textbook on Generative AI in Education?

Looking for a Textbook on Generative AI in Education? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI: Evidence-Based Approaches to Pedagogy, Ethics, and Beyond

 

Edited by Joseph Rene Corbeil & Maria Elena Corbeil (2025)

 

🏆 Winner of the 2025 Systems Thinking & Change Division Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Educational Communications and Technology!

 

If you are designing a course that addresses generative AI in education, this award-winning volume provides a research-driven, classroom-ready foundation. Rather than offering hype or fear, this book helps educators:

  • Ground AI integration in learning theory and research
  • Address academic integrity with thoughtful, practical strategies
  • Redesign assessment for an AI-enabled world
  • Explore ethics, bias, privacy, and institutional responsibility
  • Leverage AI to enhance critical thinking and digital literacy


Bookended by historical and forward-looking analyses of AI in education, the chapters move beyond surface-level discussions to provide evidence-based approaches for real classrooms—K–12, higher education, and professional learning environments.

This text is ideal for:

  • Undergraduate and graduate teacher education programs
  • Curriculum & Instruction courses
  • Educational Technology programs
  • Higher education faculty development
  • School technology coordinators and talent development professionals

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Report: Global AI Use Rises as Adoption Gap Continues to Widen

Report: Global AI Use Rises as Adoption Gap Continues to Widen | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
AI usage has reached 17.8% among the world's working-age population, while adoption remains far higher in developed economies than in the Global South.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The growing gap between developed and developing economies shows that AI's benefits are not spreading evenly, according to the company's data. Microsoft found a 12.1 percentage point difference in adoption between the Global North and Global South, a divide that appears to be widening as infrastructure, language support and economic barriers continue to shape who can use these tools."

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Quiz Vs. Test Vs. Exam In eLearning: Key Differences You Need To Know

Quiz Vs. Test Vs. Exam In eLearning: Key Differences You Need To Know | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
What are the differences between a quiz vs. test vs. exam in eLearning? Read this guide to explore when you should use each method.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"One of the most common mistakes is using quizzes, tests, and exams as if they serve the same purpose...Each assessment type should match a specific learning objective."

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Micro-credentials gain ground as focus shifts from degrees to skills

Micro-credentials gain ground as focus shifts from degrees to skills | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"Micro-credentials — short, skills-focused programs granting a verified certificate or digital badge — are gaining ground in fast-changing sectors like tech, digital marketing, AI, cybersecurity, and data analytics."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"As technologies evolve faster than universities can adapt, workers and employers want cheaper, targeted ways to build job-ready skills"

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Discovery is the work AI gives back

"At the end of 2025, almost nine in ten organizations surveyed by McKinsey in The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation reported using AI in at least one business function. Ninety-four percent reported they were not yet seeing significant value from those investments.

 

That gap, examined in “Where AI will create value and where it won’t” in the April 2026 issue of McKinsey Quarterly, is not an adoption problem. It is a framing problem. Most companies are using AI to do their existing work faster, when the durable returns require a different kind of work entirely."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Productivity is the floor of AI’s value, not the ceiling. New McKinsey research on where the durable returns actually live, and what that means for teams deciding what to build."

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May 18, 1:06 PM
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What We Got Wrong (and Right) about Bringing AI into Workforce Training

What We Got Wrong (and Right) about Bringing AI into Workforce Training | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Training providers are under enormous pressure to integrate AI, but sometimes getting it right means slowing down and asking, why?
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"For workforce organizations on their own AI implementation journeys, our main advice is this: don’t wait for the perfect tool or the perfect study. Start with a clear theory of change, measure what you can, take adoption seriously, and create the conditions for honest learning."

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The Readiness Gap: AI And EdTech Infrasturcture

The Readiness Gap: AI And EdTech Infrasturcture | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
AI is reshaping EdTech faster than platforms and institutions can keep up. Here is what the data actually reveals about the readiness gap.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[W]hile over half of students and teachers now report using AI for school, professional development for teachers, student training on responsible AI use, and school-level policies are all significantly lagging that adoption rate"

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May 18, 12:56 PM
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When Highlights Are Easy to Fake With AI, Integrity Matters More

When Highlights Are Easy to Fake With AI, Integrity Matters More | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
AI may make it easier to manipulate athletic performance, but students often underestimate how easily it can be exposed
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"A recent Sports Illustrated article described how some high school football players are using artificial intelligence to fabricate highlight plays in recruiting videos. Generative tools can now insert touchdowns, tackles, or explosive runs that never actually occurred, creating a misleading picture of an athlete’s performance."

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May 18, 12:49 PM
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Artificial intelligence assisted design of a novel cooperative learning technique for higher education

Artificial intelligence assisted design of a novel cooperative learning technique for higher education | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

Cooperative learning has long been recognized as an effective pedagogical strategy, yet the development of innovative techniques tailored to modern educational demands remains a challenge. This study introduces the Curriculum Concept Constellation Technique (CCCT), a novel cooperative learning technique developed with the support of artificial intelligence (AI). 

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The study demonstrates that AI can serve as a valuable generative tool in pedagogical innovation, producing structured cooperative learning techniques based on human-authored prompts. The findings suggest that AI-generated techniques can be effectively implemented in higher education contexts, offering a scalable model for developing tailored instructional methods."

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Meta Expands into Physical AI with Acquisition of Robotics AI Startup

Meta Expands into Physical AI with Acquisition of Robotics AI Startup | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Meta Platforms has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a robotics artificial intelligence startup focused on humanoid systems, as the company expands its AI work beyond software and into models that could help robots operate in physical environments.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The deal signals an industry shift toward physical AI. Large AI companies are increasingly looking at systems that can act in the real world, not just generate digital content."

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Empowering Learners With AI: From Classrooms to Careers

Empowering Learners With AI: From Classrooms to Careers | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
As artificial intelligence reshapes the workforce, K–12 districts can start building the creative and technical skills students need in the classroom.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The workforce students are preparing to enter looks dramatically different than it did even five years ago. AI skills are a baseline expectation, and developing these skills now builds a more innovative future."

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Why Most AI Act Compliance Training Won't Work

Why Most AI Act Compliance Training Won't Work | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Most AI Act compliance training is built around information transfer. This piece explains what Article 4 actually demands.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Most compliance eLearning is built around information transfer, not behavior change. These are different problems requiring different solutions, and the learning science on this has been consistent for decades."

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AI made everyone a creator, not a designer

"Open almost any new SaaS product today and the interface feels familiar before the product itself becomes clear. Rounded cards, neutral sans-serif typography, soft gradients, spacious layouts, and a persistent AI assistant in the corner have become the default grammar of modern digital products."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AI did not democratize design judgment. It democratized output."

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The Goal Is Not to Get AI Policy Right. It Is to Build Systems That Can Course-Correct.

The Goal Is Not to Get AI Policy Right. It Is to Build Systems That Can Course-Correct. | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
How to design governance that is serious and protective without becoming brittle or performative.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The challenge is not simply that AI is changing quickly. It is that institutions are being asked to govern systems they do not fully understand, in environments that keep changing, under political and market pressure, with uneven information and limited administrative capacity."

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It's Time for Higher Ed to Get Serious About AI Strategy

It's Time for Higher Ed to Get Serious About AI Strategy | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Without a coordinated strategy that involves multiple academic and administrative units across the entire campus, colleges risk wasting resources, duplicating efforts, and ultimately failing to deliver on the promise of deploying technology to improve learning and operations.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[E]ducation has the highest AI usage rate of any industry, with nearly nine in 10 education institutions globally reporting that students, instructors, and campus leaders are using generative AI."

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True Engagement Isn't A Feature. It's An Outcome. Here's How To Build For It.

True Engagement Isn't A Feature. It's An Outcome. Here's How To Build For It. | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
This article redefines what true eLearning engagement for meaningful digital learning means, and offers tips on building it.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Real engagement starts long before a learner ever opens a course. It starts in how that course is built."

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In an AI-driven world, the most important skills are still human

"Across higher education, artificial intelligence is now embedded in everyday academic work, from early research to final drafts. For many students, it has become a default starting point.

 

The urgent question is not whether students use AI, but how they use it—specifically, whether these tools are reinforcing learning or bypassing the cognitive work that leads to it."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"As artificial intelligence reshapes how we learn, work and create, the essential skills students need are not disappearing—they are evolving"

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May 18, 1:07 PM
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2026 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition

2026 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
The 2026 EDUCAUSE Teaching and Learning Horizon Report highlights how artificial intelligence, enrollment pressures, policy shifts, and sustainability
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AI increasingly complicates traditional assessments; institutions are moving toward authentic, process‑based demonstrations of learning."

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May 18, 1:03 PM
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Instant AI answers can trivialise human intelligence

Instant AI answers can trivialise human intelligence | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"The rise of AI tools that instantly answer questions and complex problems could make humans less intelligent, the Royal Observatory Greenwich has warned."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"A reliance solely on instant answers risks losing the habits of questioning and evaluation that underpin knowledge, expertise and innovation"

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May 18, 12:59 PM
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Blueprint for Strategic AI Integration and Student Empowerment

Blueprint for Strategic AI Integration and Student Empowerment | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Practical advice for district leaders implementing AI in their district.
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"By giving students a seat at the table both locally and nationally, CSD ensures that AI policy isn't just something done to students, but with them."

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Should We Integrate AI into Our Teaching?: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Deciding When AI Belongs

Should We Integrate AI into Our Teaching?: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Deciding When AI Belongs | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Learn how faculty can make informed decisions about AI in teaching while protecting critical thinking, human interaction, and durable learning.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Given what the research tells us, faculty should adopt a default of “offline pedagogy”—designing instruction around the conditions known to produce durable learning—and integrate AI only when it can be shown to genuinely support, rather than substitute for, those conditions."

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An AI Adoption Imperative: Centralized Sources of Governed Truth

An AI Adoption Imperative: Centralized Sources of Governed Truth | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Strategies for enterprise teams who aim to build a data foundation to move the institution from AI experimentation to real-world execution.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The trust deficit surrounding AI is especially acute in higher education. AI data leaders must produce and leverage centralized sources of governed data. Effective data models should provide organizational context so that AI can provide more relevant responses."

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With Parents Divided on Artificial Intelligence, Here’s How Schools Can Build Trust

With Parents Divided on Artificial Intelligence, Here’s How Schools Can Build Trust | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Parents have concerns about cheating, privacy and equity. Experts say clear policies, transparency and communication are needed to address those concerns.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

“While AI use is happening, communication from schools is lagging, which leaves families feeling like they're playing catch up on something that directly affects their child's learning

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Higher Education’s Role in Supporting K–12 AI Literacy

Higher Education’s Role in Supporting K–12 AI Literacy | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Universities are providing access to artificial intelligence experts, conference learning opportunities and research repositories to assist K–12 students and educators in making the most of this technology.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"A key strategy is boosting AI literacy among K–12 educators and students. Higher education plays a critical role in this mission, providing the research, training and critical understanding of how to best harness this technology for educational purposes while reducing potential harm."

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Campus Libraries Become AI Hubs

"Campus libraries are becoming the go-to place for helping students, faculty and researchers learn about artificial intelligence and how to best integrate it into their work."

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Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, once Meta's news chief, has thoughts

Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, once Meta's news chief, has thoughts | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
"The conversation is sort of happening in Silicon Valley around one thing, and a totally different conversation is happening among consumers," Campbell Brown said at StrictlyVC.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Right now it could go either way...Companies could give users what they want, or they could "give people what's real and what's honest and what's truthful."

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