by mguhlin

LinkShare: Improving AI-powered math tutoring

AI, LinkShare, Press Releases

A brief overview of Microsoft and Khanmigo announcements, **[“Enhancing the future of education with Khan Academy” on the Microsoft Education Blog](https://educationblog.microsoft.com/en-us/2024/05/enhancing-the-future-of-education-with-khan-academy)\*\* appears below. ## [Get Free Access U.S. Teachers](https://www.khanacademy.org/signup) ## AI Summary of Article - 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.