The company says its technology, used in many top learning institutions, will be improved and expanded to include support for additional languages.

The "Guide Dawg" app will help visually impaired students get to and from class more easily and avoid hazards on campus.

Commentary: Choose technology that best suits the institution's specific needs for student engagement, just as USC Aiken has, says Daniel Robb.

Artificial intelligence gives higher education institutions better insights into their data, if infrastructure supports the levels of compute needed.

The investment needed to afford "top of the line" cyber tools is pushing more schools to the cloud, says Oral Roberts University CIO Mike Mathews.

The course's launch is a testbed for a wider program the tech giant plans to roll out nationwide to support the computer science workforce.

A computer science initiative addressing workforce shortages will be piloted at Mills College in Oakland this February and other schools next summer.

The company's new head of AI and personalized learning sees an opportunity to create enhanced ways of evaluating students' work.

The tech giant will work with Scholastic and Edmodo as they create custom curriculum for individual students.