An AI-powered tool called "Julian" allows students at the online college to check their progress on demand, and does some of the work in creating assessments.

Eleven institutions are to receive $20 million over five years as they seek to accelerate AI research and applications across a range of uses.

A new survey of higher education officials points to a shortage of instructors and infrastructure in the face of rising demand for AI instruction at colleges and universities.

Tedious workflows and repetitive tasks are being automated at colleges and universities, leaving staff more time for authentic interactions with students.

Juji co-founder Michelle Zhou said her company's chatbots are more flexible and their models come pre-trained for higher education customers.

The Ivy League university is using a virtual assistant built on natural-language processing to field IT service requests from students and faculty during the pandemic.

Medical center at Rush University takes on more advanced research projects, and lowers costs to IT operations by adopting a scalable cloud platform.

Using software from Appian, students will learn skills like process orchestration, robotic process automation and intelligent document processing.

The company says the tool's goal isn't to prescribe goals or values, but to encourage students to set their own goals and equip them to follow through.