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Category: Education

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Coursera and AWS survey reveals how technology leaders navigate cloud and AI transformation

Coursera and AWS surveyed more than 750 technology executives across six countries to understand how organizations are balancing automation, human expertise, and infrastructure modernization as they prepare for an AI-driven future. The survey reveals a clear insight: As organizations move toward AI-driven operations, success begins with the cloud.

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AI that listens: Building educator-centered AI tools on AWS

The number of K-12 educators who use artificial intelligence (AI) is growing quickly, with many turning to AI assistants for timely and reliable insights into student performance. By eliminating administrative tasks and simplifying data analysis, these emerging tools enable teachers to focus on what matters most: supporting student growth. In the 2025-26 school year, Otus, a leading K-12 student data and assessment solution, will empower 1,165 administrators and 8,579 educators to maximize outcomes for over 106,000 students with its assistant. Putting AI into everyday practice helps these districts capitalize on the reliable data foundations they already have in place and integrate the information into effective classroom strategies.

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How Pearson Clinical Assessments transform school mental health services with AWS

Pearson Clinical Assessments, a leader in psychological and educational testing, saw an opportunity to use cloud technology to transform how clinicians assess and support students. Working with AWS, Pearson developed two solutions: the Digital Assessment Library for Schools (DALS) and Revibe, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered wearable technology designed to enhance focus and attention. The goal was clear: to help time-pressed clinicians work efficiently while still serving each student as an individual.

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Transforming digital learning: How EDHEC Business School and Amanote AI are shaping the future of education

EDHEC Business School is transforming their students’ learning experience through an innovative partnership with Amanote AI, powered by AWS. The solution delivers personalized, 24/7 academic support while maintaining high education standards. This collaboration showcases how educational institutions can harness AI to enhance learning while maintaining academic integrity and pedagogical excellence. Read this post to learn more.

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Bridging AI and biology: Inside the AWS and NVIDIA Open Data knowledge graph hackathon

Knowledge graphs (KGs) and large language models (LLMs) are transforming biomedical research, but ensuring artificial intelligence (AI) outputs are trustworthy and evidence-based remains challenging. At the recent AWS and NVIDIA Open Data knowledge graph hackathon, teams of researchers tackled this challenge by developing innovative solutions that combine knowledge graphs with graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG). Read this post to learn more.

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How Nanyang Polytechnic’s AI Tutor Assistant is reshaping asynchronous learning

This post examines how Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) and NCS—an AWS Generative AI Competency partner and part of AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) Partner Innovation Alliance (PIA)—reshaped asynchronous learning through an AI Tutor Assistant. The solution enhances student learning while reducing lecturers’ preparation time by 80%, demonstrating the transformative potential of generative AI in education.

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Build your Presidential AI Challenge project with PartyRock

The Presidential AI Challenge is a nationwide initiative for educators and K-12 students to develop AI-powered solutions for real-world problems in their communities. With a January 20, 2026, deadline quickly approaching, now is the time to transform your idea into an impactful project. Whether you’re building a working prototype or crafting a detailed proposal, this guide breaks down exactly what you need to do to get your submission ready—specifically focusing on using PartyRock, the AWS no-code generative AI playground powered by Amazon Bedrock.

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Transforming classroom conversations: Cornell University’s AI-powered Socratic Chat on AWS

Working with AWS, Cornell University built Socratic Chat, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that delivers personalized Socratic teaching at scale. By fall 2024, over 500 students across multiple courses were using the tool, spending 10-15 minutes per assignment, working through progressively harder questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy—freeing Ault and other professors to focus on in-depth instruction. Read this post to learn more.