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As of August 2026, Changzhou had held 2,383 AI night-school sessions with a cumulative 359,000 attendances. Changzhou Television reported the figures on August 20, and the municipal government website republished them. The night schools provide AI skills training to residents across a broad range of groups.
On August 20, BRAOU and Telangana's Department of School Education launched a 15-day online 'AI for Teachers' program, with more than 1,500 teachers registered for the first cohort. The course covers practical uses including lesson planning, content creation, and assessment, with an emphasis on ethics and human-centered practice.
Medly AI has announced a seed round of nearly £6 million led by Felix Capital, with participation from Eka Ventures and Ada Ventures. The platform describes itself as the world's first AI tutor for exam preparation and has gained more than 400,000 UK users since launching in February 2025. In July, Medly received funding from a UK Department for Education pilot program for AI tutoring tools intended to improve outcomes for disadvantaged students in England.
CodeAI and OpenAI have announced a one-year partnership to advance AI literacy among students. The collaboration will support CodeAI's Hour of AI program, provide expert support for its year-long high-school course AI Foundations, and supply mentors for its first Builders Challenge. The organizations will also form a joint advisory council focused on child development, youth public policy, and learning science.
UNIVO Education launched its AI Readiness Initiative in August 2026, offering learners across India a free, self-paced foundational course covering AI basics, prompting, responsible use, and everyday productivity, with no coding or technical background required. The initiative supports Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision for broad AI adoption, offers applied certification in partnership with Amity University Online, and develops AI-readiness programs for companies and educational institutions.
Google has announced new AI tools for learning in Search and Gemini, including AI-generated interactive visuals, 3D simulations, a dedicated student learning hub, and customized practice quizzes. Students can use Search to generate interactive content for complex concepts, such as pH visualization charts, and create quizzes for high-frequency SAT vocabulary. Gemini adds multi-step research reports and functional 3D-simulation generation, while Google Lens will gain interactive learning features in the coming weeks.
Jiangsu launched its universal general AI education project for primary and secondary schools in Nanjing on August 18. Beginning this autumn, every school in the province will offer general AI courses. The provincial education digital-information center and institute of education sciences jointly completed 16 class periods of training, which drew 9.03 million cumulative views and essentially reached all full-time and part-time teachers and teaching researchers. A new resource section brings together more than 130 national-level courses and nearly 800 class periods of structured curriculum for grades 1–12.
The Chongqing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau has issued its Human Resources and Social Security Development Plan for the 15th Five-Year Plan Period (2026–2030), making higher-quality, fuller employment its top task. The plan calls for at least 3.25 million new urban jobs over five years, no fewer than 750,000 attendances in subsidized vocational-skills training, broader 'AI + employment' services, and stronger entrepreneurship support in emerging fields including AI.
A June 2026 joint study by Auburn University and James Madison University assessed generative-AI literacy among freshmen at the two institutions, finding scores of 54% at Auburn and 63% at James Madison, both considered low. AI literacy was limited across disciplines, and STEM students also needed instruction. The study appeared in Research & Practice in Assessment and was presented at the 2026 Association for Psychological Science annual convention.
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DFRobot attended TAMYZ FORUM 2026 in Astana, Kazakhstan, on August 17–18, 2026. Vice President Sandy Zhang delivered a keynote comparing AI education strategies in North America, Europe, and Asia and launched the HUSKYLENS 2 AI vision sensor, which lets students train models and perform real-time recognition. Organized by Astana's education department, the forum drew 3,000 in-person and 20,000 online participants.
In 2026, Shenzhen's Futian District represented China's basic education system at the World Digital Education Conference, where it shared its AI education experience, and became the site of a UNESCO Asia-Pacific learning-sciences community base. Futian has built AI learning centers in 78 schools, issued General AI Education Guidelines for Primary and Secondary School Students, and advanced an education-AI initiative comprising 20 project schools, 100 use cases, and 1,000 practice cases.
Heilongjiang's Department of Education is supporting Harbin Institute of Technology in leading a provincial AI education and teaching research center, with branch centers at Harbin Engineering University, Northeast Forestry University, and other institutions spanning engineering, agriculture, medicine, and the humanities. Drawing on their strongest disciplines, the centers will study how AI may transform industries and reshape jobs over the next five to ten years and drive changes to academic disciplines and programs.
On August 6, the Center for Industrial Services at the University of Tennessee Institute for Public Service signed a memorandum of understanding with UT Knoxville's College of Emerging and Collaborative Studies to expand AI education for manufacturers statewide. The partnership builds on a 16-week pilot with DENSO involving 35 engineers. Its first program, the AI in Manufacturing Workforce Certificate, begins October 1.
Nigeria's federal government is offering free digital-skills training through its Digital Training Academy, with plans to enroll 36,000 learners across all 37 states. More than ten training tracks include AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity. Coursera provides the courses; participants must register with a national identification number and complete an assessment, and those who finish receive certificates.
The U.S. Department of State is offering about $200,000 through the EducationUSA AI Roadshow to bring experts from U.S. universities to Iraq to present AI education programs and promote university partnerships between the two countries. A single award of $185,000–$200,000 is expected, with applications due September 11, 2026. The program seeks to attract international students and promote responsible AI, data privacy, and related topics.
More than half of U.S. college students took at least one online course last year, up from about one-third in 2019. AI cheating has expanded from copying chatbot text to using agents to complete an entire semester of work, including watching lecture videos, taking quizzes, and writing papers. Teachers report difficulty detecting and preventing it. Some schools require in-person exams, but those are difficult to implement in online courses.
Guangdong's Department of Human Resources and Social Security launched the 'Yuet Learning—AI Training for Households' initiative in Guangzhou on August 15, with more than 1,000 AI courses in its first release. Running from August 2026 through January 2027, it targets 1,000 courses, 1,000 events, and one million training attendances. Dedicated sections launched concurrently on platforms in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and other cities, allowing workers to learn by computer or phone.
South Korea's Chonnam National University established an Institute for AI Convergence Education reporting directly to the president on July 30 to coordinate AI talent development, resource sharing, and community service. It promotes regional AI education through a college for regional universities, an online preservice-teacher program, and an AI citizens' academy. CNU also hosted a 2026 Korea-Japan student exchange in higher education for 20 students from 11 Japanese universities.
The Mark Cuban Foundation is running its first adult AI education program, Agentic AI Academy, at Dallas College from August 17–21, 2026. The free five-day program is open to community-college students with no technical background required. In partnership with New York worker-rights nonprofit Lift Our Voices, participants will learn to build work-related AI agents and test LOV's contract-review tool.
India's National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration announced two new master's programs at its 20th-anniversary celebration: an MA in AI in Education and an MA in School Leadership. Offered by this deemed-to-be university under India's Ministry of Education, the programs aim to strengthen educational planning, governance, and institutional capacity in support of the Viksit Bharat@2047 vision.
ENGAUSA Global Tech Hub held STARTUP FRIDAY at Kano's Technology Incubation Centre on July 31, partnering with New York-based AI CERTs to launch internationally recognized AI certifications and hold a graduation ceremony for its first certified trainers and learners. The event also recognized 12 visually impaired learners who completed a PC exploration course and launched a skills program offering free smartphone-repair and solar-installation training to Almajiri children.
UTEP's College of Education held the Built Here Summit on August 11 to report results from El Paso Computes. Since launching in 2025, the program has trained 721 teachers, provided advanced computing skills to 500 students through summer camps, reached 131 schools, and benefited more than 25,000 K–12 students. The summit also began a new phase of cooperation among education, industry, government, and the community.
Google announced on August 11, 2026, that it is expanding its AI Professional Certificate with a vibe-coding course that teaches learners to build applications in everyday language without programming experience. Since launching in February, the certificate has become Coursera's most popular generative-AI certificate, and U.S. searches for it have risen 140% year over year.
Karnataka, Mizoram, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi are advancing AI education. Karnataka's deputy chief minister announced an AI university and plans to introduce AI learning from Grade 6. Mizoram's chief minister discussed integrating Gemini AI into classrooms with Google, which will provide free teacher training. Delhi opened a STEM laboratory covering AI, robotics, and other areas at Sarvodaya Vidyalaya in Pitampura.
The Standing Committee of the Minqing County People's Congress held a video training session on AI on August 4 for government staff and county congress deputies in 16 townships. The meeting studied Xi Jinping's address at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and assigned goals including a '3531' industrial system, the Meixi Agent Town, and the recruitment and development of 30 algorithm and AIGC companies.
India's central government has established four AI Centers of Excellence. The newly announced AI-CoE for Education is based at IIT Madras with total funding of ₹50 billion. Three earlier centers led by IIT Ropar, IIT Kanpur, and IISc Bengaluru received combined funding of ₹99 billion, bringing total committed funding for all four to ₹149 billion. The education center has developed automatic speech recognition, optical character recognition, machine translation, and text-to-speech models with a focus on Indian languages.
Vi Foundation has opened an AI education center in Varanasi in partnership with the District Institute of Education and Training. It offers preservice teachers a four-module AI course covering fundamentals, safety, and ethics. Integrated into the DIET core curriculum, the center aims to reach 650 schools and more than 68,000 teachers and students.
According to Technavio, the global education-app market reached $620 million in 2024 and is projected to grow to $4.16 billion by 2033, with language learning among the fastest-growing subcategories. Speak completed a Series C in December 2024 at a $1 billion valuation, becoming the first English-speaking app unicorn; investors include OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. A year after launching in Taiwan, Speak won Google Play's App of the Year and now ranks fifth among education downloads in the App Store.
