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Unification Under One Global Brand The organizations shaping the future of learning are those that can combine world-class expertise with the scale to deliver it globally. Today, three of them become one: Liberate Global. EI Design, MPS Europa, and Liberate Learning formally unite under a single global identity, bringing together nearly three decades of combined expertise serving Fortune 500 companies, education institutions, government clients, and some of the world’s most respected L&D teams globally. The story behind this unification is one of deliberate, patient ambition. In 2018, MPS acquired Tata Interactive Systems, a company with close to 30 years in…

Human Asset Launches gAImify Hub Human Asset announces gAImify Hub, an AI-powered platform designed to help organizations create more personalized, adaptive, and practice-based workplace learning experiences. As AI adoption accelerates in Learning and Development, many organizations are looking for ways to move beyond faster content production and create learning experiences that support stronger engagement, reflection, and real skill development. gAImify Hub has been developed to address this need by combining AI-assisted course design with adaptive learning, open-ended practice, gamified storytelling, and simulation-based interaction. The platform enables HR and L&D teams to begin from ready-made templates and tailor training to organizational…

Gutkin et al., CHEd Some see the decline as evidence of antisemitism. Noah Feldman is dubious.

While some might envision Gen Z welcoming artificial intelligence into their lives, a new Gallup survey finds people between the ages of 14 and 29 are becoming increasingly skeptical of — and downright mad at — AI. Compared to a similar survey last year, they’re less excited and hopeful about the change it could bring and more angry at its existence, citing concerns about AI’s impact on their cognitive abilities and professional opportunities. Respondents said they used AI at nearly the same rate they did before — they reported only a slight increase in daily and weekly exposure — but…

Clare Morell, First Things Two misconceptions have been circulating since last week’s landmark ruling in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., which found Meta and YouTube liable for harms to an individual…

Republicans in Wisconsin want answers and are vowing to retaliate after the Universities of Wisconsin system Board of Regents fired President Jay Rothman on Tuesday night with no public explanation. Accusing the regents of blatant partisanship, Republicans in the State Legislature are planning to hold a hearing on the firing and to vote against 10 board appointees who have been nominated and are already serving on the board but haven’t been confirmed. The Senate’s GOP-controlled Committee on Universities and Technical Colleges, which is holding the hearing, can’t stop the nominations on its own, but the mounting threats may set up…

Algorithms. Beauty filters. Endless scrolling. The case over “social media addiction” against Meta and Google in a California courtroom ultimately came down to these elements, legal experts say, and what a jury found was negligence on social media companies’ part when designing apps where tweens and teens would come to spend roughly one-fifth of their day. Joseph McNally, former federal prosecutor and director of Emerging Torts and Litigation at McNicholas & McNicholas in California, says jurors agreed with the novel legal argument that Meta and Google were negligent in their design of Instagram and YouTube, respectively, contributing to the mental…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter America’s school districts are operating in a very different reality than they were even a decade ago. Student demographics are shifting so that in just six years, districts have lost nearly 2 million students nationwide. Meanwhile, charter schools gained about half a million, private schools added thousands more, and homeschooling rates remain higher than pre-pandemic levels. These shifts look different depending on where you live, but almost no district is immune. The result: Traditional district schools are serving a shrinking share of a shrinking market. …

Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The Universities of Wisconsin board of regents on Tuesday unanimously voted to fire President Jay Rothman after he declined to resign quietly. Board President Amy Bogost said during Tuesday’s meeting that the decision to terminate Rothman stemmed from the results of his annual performance review, which were shared with him.  However, Rothman last month told Bogost that he had declined a request from the board to resign because he was not given an explanation for their decision, according to the…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Southern Oregon University will receive a $15 million lifeline from the state after Gov. Tina Kotek on Tuesday signed into law an emergency funding provision for the beleaguered public institution.  The provision, attached to a larger state budget bill, appropriates the money to Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission through the two-year fiscal period ending in June 2027.  SOU and the commission must file a report with the Legislature detailing the university’s operating plans through June 2027, according to a bill…