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Universities often fail at implementing learning analytics because they treat it as a static IT or enterprise system rather than a dynamic decision-support process. Using situational awareness theory, the author shows that effective analytics must align with teachers’ real contexts, …

After trying out plenty of options, here are the five best Duolingo alternatives that stand out from the rest.

https://www.androidauthority.com/duolingo-alternatives-3608570…

This guide offers strategies for integrating Generative AI into multimodal teaching, learning, and assessment. It supports educators and educational developers in driving pedagogical innovation amid evolving educational landscapes.

https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194252/1/Output1_an-educators-guide-to-multimodal-learning-and-generative-ai.pdf…

Teachers in EdSurge’s research urged schools to replace AI bans with a harm reduction approach, teaching students to use AI responsibly rather than prohibiting it. This philosophy emphasizes preparedness over prohibition, fostering transparency, co-learning, and context-specific guidelines that build critical …

Champlain College Saint-Lambert’s Millennium Certificate Program (MCP) helps students build 21st-century skills through independent and experiential learning using the Linkr platform. Guided by faculty mentors, students earn certificates by completing projects and peer exchanges, an approach that could inspire similar …

I’ve tried countless note-taking apps over the years: OneNote, Google Keep, and everything in between, from the ultra-minimalist to the overwhelmingly feature-packed. Yet none have made me want to write quite like Anytype.

https://www.makeuseof.com/anytype-beautiful-open-source-note-taking…

The author built a local AI-powered mind-mapping system using Obsidian, LM Studio, and custom prompts to turn notes and documents into structured visual maps. This setup offers privacy, control, and flexibility—outperforming online tools like Xmind by allowing deeper customization and …

Comet, a Chromium-based browser by Perplexity AI, integrates an AI assistant that automates web tasks, summarizes content, organizes tabs, and provides contextual guidance. Unlike Chrome, it acts as an agentic browser, handling emails, research, shopping, and scheduling through natural prompts …

OpenAI’s new browser, Atlas, replaces real web content with AI-generated material, blurring what’s authentic online. It also shifts control, users must guess commands while effectively working for the browser instead of it serving them.

https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser…

Copilot now has its own virtual character for its voice mode.

https://www.theverge.com/news/804106/microsoft-mico-copilot-ai-assistant-clippy…

Chatbots now ace the mathematician’s famous imitation game, but imitation never equalled intelligence.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03386-w…

ChatGPT has broken out of the chatbot. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it is launching a web browser called ChatGPT Atlas, which it says will reimagine the browsing experience from the ground up, now built around a chat-based experience for …

For over 20 years, Google has expanded digital capacity worldwide, and now with the surge in AI demand, they’re launching Google Skills, a unified platform offering nearly 3,000 courses, labs, and credentials from Google Cloud, DeepMind, Grow with Google, and …

The study develops a GenAI-specific literacy framework for education, identifying five key competencies: understanding, applying, evaluating, ethical use, and attitudes toward GenAI. It finds students moderately informed but struggling with prompt design and critical evaluation, highlighting the need for ethics, …