{"id":7720,"date":"2025-01-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-09T14:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T21:30:38","slug":"advancing-education-with-ai-to-prepare-the-workforce-of-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2025\/01\/advancing-education-with-ai-to-prepare-the-workforce-of-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Advancing education with AI to prepare the workforce of tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

AI is transforming how we live, work, and learn. In education, it builds efficiencies, streamlines processes, and fosters innovation with measurable results. A recent IDC study<\/a> found that education organizations using generative AI are realizing an ROI of $3.2x within 13 months for every $1 invested.1<\/sup> These findings highlight the impact AI is beginning to have on education. And as it reshapes all industries, the demand for an AI-skilled workforce is set to grow. Equipping students with these skills not only prepares them to thrive in the future, it ensures they can lead in an AI-powered world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As AI technologies advance, a new world of possibilities emerges in K-12 and higher education. Educators and administrators around the world who attended Bett UK<\/a> in London this year learned firsthand about these advancements, particularly the transformative power of agents. Designed to work alongside you, agents will have a particular expertise in areas such as instructional design or individual student preferences. And they can leverage institutional data to offer relevant insights for educators and administrators in real-time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Microsoft, we\u2019re excited to help faculty, staff, and students achieve greater impact with AI and agents through our recently announced Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat<\/a>\u2014the chat experience you can use every day\u2014powered by broad knowledge from the web, built on the latest AI models, and designed to be safe and secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Understanding the impact of AI in education to empower educators and students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Understanding how the use of generative AI impacts learning outcomes is key to creating effective guidelines for and usage of AI in education<\/a>. Our latest insights emphasize the need to position AI as a complement, not a substitute for established practices that are essential for learning. By integrating AI thoughtfully with traditional methods, we may achieve enhanced learning outcomes that neither approach can deliver alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A study conducted by the World Bank<\/a> with students using AI at Edo Boys High School in Nigeria saw remarkable learning gains in their after-school program with preliminary findings improving learning by \u201cabout 0.3 standard deviations, equivalent to nearly two years of typical learning in just six weeks,\u201d illustrating the potential for AI. We look forward to sharing the full report and continuing to understand the long-term effects, role of educators, benefits extended to other disciplines, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft Research and Cambridge University Press & Assessment conducted one of the first large-scale investigations<\/a> into the impact of large language models (LLMs) on the foundations of learning: understanding and retaining information. The preliminary research findings reveal the continued importance of traditional learning approaches. They also demonstrate the benefits of combining AI with traditional learning resources over AI alone and point to the AI skills that students need to maximize those benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Through a \u201csnapshot in time\u201d study<\/a> of AI in higher education, Microsoft Research sought to understand how practices and norms are developing around practical and policy realities. Both students and educators prefer AI to be further integrated as a complement to other learning methods, but to do so they need training. The study suggests involving students and educators in guidance and development, empowering students to use AI to support learning, providing training with exposures to errors in AI output, and encouraging collaboration between students and educators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Defending at the speed of AI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n

As educational institutions harness the power of AI, it\u2019s essential campus environments remain secure, reliable, and compliant. Designing a strategy that balances innovation and security with policies and practices to support AI is critical. Microsoft principles of Responsible AI<\/a>\u2014fairness, reliability and safety, privacy and security, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability\u2014help institutions prepare for AI implementation. A robust framework of tools from Microsoft can guide you through successful implementation. World class security tools<\/a> like Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Defender, and Microsoft Intune, can play an important role in protecting sensitive data and securing AI applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planning your implementation with the AI Toolkit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Start your AI journey with the Microsoft Education AI Toolkit<\/a>, a comprehensive guide for educational organizations to plan AI implementations. The toolkit introduces a variety of technologies\u2014Copilot Chat, Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and more\u2014and showcases successful implementations through AI Navigators\u2014institutions leading the way with research, experimentation, testing, and deployment of generative AI solutions. It\u2019s easy to implement these tools with step-by-step instructions to offer educators, technology coordinators, and policy makers practical guidance to support deployment, usage, and best practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Teaming up with Pearson on AI workforce skilling<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The same IDC study mentioned above also shows that the demand for training in AI-based skills has never been higher.1<\/sup> To help meet this demand, Microsoft is teaming up<\/a> with Pearson to bring world-class learning and assessment expertise with cutting-edge AI and cloud technologies. Microsoft Cloud and Office certifications are now more accessible to help organizations realize the full value of AI through reskilling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about the advancements in AI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t miss out on the latest announcements<\/a> to learn about new AI-powered products and features designed to support your educational organization. We\u2019re thrilled to announce these new AI solutions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n