Three leading AI providers—Google (Gemini), Anthropic (Claude) and OpenAI (ChatGPT)—have released educational tools targeted at students, faculty and administrators. Each provider is pursuing different approaches to classroom support, which will likely evolve and intensify into competition for institutional adoption. Early campus use and administrative endorsement can give a provider long-term advantage as students enter positions that influence future procurement. Anthropic announced two initiatives on Aug. 21: a Higher Education Advisory Board chaired by Rick Levin and three AI Fluency courses co-created with educators to build practical, responsible AI skills for teachers and students.
Each of the three leading AI providers has taken a somewhat different approach to providing an array of educational tools and support for students, faculty and administrators. We can expect these tools to improve, proliferate and become a competitive battleground among the three. At stake is, at least in part, the future marketplace for their products.
Anthropic, the company that makes the series of Claude applications, announced on Aug. 21 "two initiatives for AI in education to help navigate these critical decisions: a Higher Education Advisory Board to guide Claude's development for education, and three AI Fluency courses co-created with educators that can help teachers and students build practical, responsible AI skills."
The board is chaired by Rick Levin, former president of Yale and more recently at Coursera. Anthropic notes in the announcement, "At Coursera, he built one of the world's largest platforms for online learning, bringing high-quality education to millions worldwide." The board itself is populated with former and current leading administrators at Rice University, the University of Michigan, the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford, as well as Yolanda Watson Spiva, who is president of Complete College America. Anthropic says the board will "help guide how Claude serves teaching, learning, and research in higher education."
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