Major Announcements from InstructureCon 2024 with Steve Daly
Jul 10, 2024
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Steve Daly, CEO of Instructure, discusses major announcements from InstructureCon 2024, like new developments in Canvas, AI features, supporting lifelong learners with partnerships, enhancing student mobility, and rich credentials for demonstrating competencies.
InstructureCon 2024 introduced AI features like discussion summaries and multilingual support to enhance the Canvas user experience.
Partnerships with Parchment and Scribbles aim to support lifelong learners by enabling student mobility and demonstrating competencies.
Deep dives
Canvas Learning Management System: Main Product Overview
Canvas by Instructure is a widely adopted learning management system used by nearly half of all US higher education students and about a third of school districts. It offers not only the main LMS product but also technology supporting teaching, learning, assessment tools, multimedia content creation, and administrative ecosystem management. With over a thousand integrated partners, Canvas continues to innovate by leveraging technologies like artificial intelligence and generative AI to enhance the learning experience, address lifelong learning needs, and provide valuable insights through analytics.
Innovations in Canvas: AI Integration and Features
Instructure focuses on enhancing the user experience by incorporating AI features like generative AI summaries for discussion boards and multilingual support to facilitate communication in various languages. Their analytics solutions enable natural language searches, simplifying data access for administrators and teachers. Furthermore, Canvas offers a secure infrastructure for external tool integration, allowing personalized learning experiences and efficient data utilization while prioritizing data privacy and ethical usage.
Integration and Acquisitions: Empowering Student Mobility and Credentialing
Instructure's strategic acquisitions, including Learn Platform and Parchment, align with their vision of creating a comprehensive education network to enable student mobility, credit transfers, dual enrollment, and competency-based learning. Through these acquisitions, Instructure enhances credentialing processes, enriches learning evidence, and supports competency demonstration for students and institutions. The integration of credentialing platforms with learning data aims to provide a more holistic view of student achievements and facilitate lifelong learning journeys within a networked educational ecosystem.
In this episode, Steve Daly, CEO of Instructure, discusses the major announcements from InstructureCon 2024, including new developments in Canvas and other products, the integration of AI features like discussion summaries, multilingual support, and smart search, and Instructure’s plans to support lifelong learners through partnerships with Parchment and Scribbles, enhancing student mobility and demonstrating competencies with rich credentials.
Highlights: 📢 Major new developments in Canvas and Instructure products 🤖 AI features: discussion summaries, multilingual support, and smart search 🎓 Supporting lifelong learners with Parchment and Scribbles 🚀 Enhancing student mobility and reducing friction in education 📜 Rich credentials to demonstrate competencies and skills
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