{"id":179847,"date":"2026-01-20T02:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/introducing-microsoft-innovations-and-programs-to-support-ai-powered-teaching-and-learning\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T02:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:50:09","slug":"introducing-microsoft-innovations-and-programs-to-support-ai-powered-teaching-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/introducing-microsoft-innovations-and-programs-to-support-ai-powered-teaching-and-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Microsoft innovations and programs to support AI-powered teaching and learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2026\/01\/introducing-microsoft-innovations-and-programs-to-support-ai-powered-teaching-and-learning\/\">Introducing Microsoft innovations and programs to support AI-powered teaching and learning<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2026\/01\/introducing-microsoft-innovations-and-programs-to-support-ai-powered-teaching-and-learning\/\">https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2026\/01\/introducing-microsoft-innovations-and-programs-to-support-ai-powered-teaching-and-learning\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-15 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.microsoft.com\">www.microsoft.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has announced the launch of Microsoft Elevate for Educators, a new program aimed at helping educators integrate AI tools into their teaching and enhancing professional development opportunities. The program is intended to connect educators with community resources, provide professional training, and offer AI-powered tools to improve educational outcomes. Microsoft Elevate encompasses efforts spanning K-12 to higher education to ensure that educators and students have access to the needed skills for thriving in an AI-augmented future. It also includes new global communities for educators, free professional development, industry-recognized AI credentials, and new AI-integrated tools like Teach and Study and Learn Agent to help with lesson plans and personalized student growth.<\/p>\n<p>Key Points:<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s dedication to supporting education through advanced AI tools and professional development.<br \/>\nLaunch of the Microsoft Elevate for Educators program to help educators globally integrate AI in teaching effectively.<br \/>\nIntroduction of new AI-powered educational tools available at no cost to Microsoft 365 Education customers.<br \/>\nSupport for higher education students with AI resources, including Microsoft 365 Premium and LinkedIn Premium Career for a limited time.<br \/>\nEfforts to promote security, accessibility, and responsible AI adoption in educational institutions through the Education Security Toolkit and AI Toolkit.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing Microsoft innovations and programs to support AI-powered teaching and learning https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2026\/01\/introducing-microsoft-innovations-and-programs-to-support-ai-powered-teaching-and-learning\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-15&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MSFT-Edu-Bett-blog-hero-1200px.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179849,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179847\/revisions\/179849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}