A brief overview of Microsoft and Khanmigo announcements, “Enhancing the future of education with Khan Academy” on the Microsoft Education Blog appears below.
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- Microsoft and Khan Academy have announced a new partnership to enhance the role of AI in education.
- Microsoft is enabling Khan Academy to provide free access to Khanmigo for Teachers to all US educators.
- The partnership includes efforts to improve AI-powered math tutoring with a new open-source small language model.
- The collaboration aims to bring high-quality education experiences to more learners by integrating more Khan Academy content into Microsoft products like Copilot and Microsoft Teams for Education.
- The partnership aims to address challenges such as accuracy, overreliance, cost, connectivity, efficacy, and support for educators.
- Khan Academy’s content library covers a wide range of subjects from PreK-12 through early college.
- Khan Academy has added a new “Share to Teams” feature in its platform to enable easy sharing and application of Khan Academy content in student assignments.
- Khanmigo for Teachers is powered by Azure OpenAI Service and is currently available in the US.
