Deep Reasoning, Agentic AI & the Continued Rise of Specialised AI Research & Tools for Education
Hello, Learning Futurists! 👋
Welcome to this month’s edition of Learning Futures, where we explore more major stories from around the globe that show where and how artificial intelligence continues to transform how humans teach, learn and develop.
Here’s a quick teaser of key developments in the world of AI & learning this month:
DeepSeek R-1, OpenAI’s Deep Seek & Perplexity’s ‘Deep Research’ are the latest additions to a growing number of “reasoning models” with interesting implications for evidence-based learning design & development.
The U.S. Education Dept release an AI Toolkit and a fresh policy roadmap enabling the adoption of AI use in schools.
Anthropic Release “Agentic Claude”, another AI agent that clicks, scrolls, and can even successfully complete e-learning courses…
Oxford University Announce the AIEOU Hub, a research-backed research lab to support research and implementation on AI in education.
“AI Agents Everywhere”: A Forbes peek at how agentic AI will handle the “boring bits” of classroom life.
[Bias klaxon! 🔔] Epiphany AI: My own research leads to the creation of a specialised, “pedagogy first” AI co-pilot for instructional design marking the continued growth of specialised AI tools designed for specific industries and workflows.
Ready to explore how these developments could transform your teaching, learning, or design work?
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