AWS Highlights Educators’ Work in Digital Transformation

Educators across the U.S. are finding creative ways to use technology in the classroom, in administration, for research and beyond. Each year, Amazon Web Services selects about 10 of them to recognize, aid and amplify their work. This year, AWS highlighted a dozen, whose work included data-driven decision-making, cloud infrastructure modernization, support for medical researchers and expanding access to digital archives. EDUCATION CHAMPIONS According to a recent news release , Elizabeth Reilley, executive director of AI acceleration – enterprise technology at Arizona State University, was deemed a champion this year for her work using large language models in higher education. AWS General Manager of Global Education Valerie Singer said Reilley’s work can help translate lessons for students who don’t speak English. “It’s challenges like this that really help communities in a really profound way that we celebrate in our education champions,” Singer said. Another 2024 winner, Robert Grossman of the University of Chicago , leads a team creating a platform called Gen3. The platform provides open-source software services to manage and share large, complex data sets in the cloud, according to its website . This can help accelerate the research process and ultimately increase scientific knowledge and improve quality […]

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