Currently, CLASSUM is interested in exploring changes in the Edtech industry. CLASSUM carefully analyzed and selected five trending keywords. The first keyword is Artificial Intelligence, also known as AI. Finding someone who has never heard of AI will be challenging today. AI has been utilized in the education industry over the last few years.

Google has just opened the gates to a new ML Engineer certificate. Before you charge in, bear in mind that this is geared towards professionals who want to display their competency in topics like distributed model training and scaling to production. Students who don't have practical work experience would be better served by first doing hands-on projects. Getting this certificate won't be easy. In fact, looking at the exam guide, you need very in-depth knowledge in six areas, including highly specialized topics like permission issues, dataset lineage, and data feasibility.

Beam, a telepresence robot with a screen that a person can remotely control and use to communicate via video, became a breakthrough success in the world of robotics in part because of its role in helping high-profile, but movement-limited, people like Edward Snowden better communicate with the outside world, and disability rights activists meet with world leaders. Now, the control of Beam the product itself is changing: Suitable Technologies, the creator of the Beam, is selling it to Blue Ocean Robotics, a Denmark-based developer and incubator that describes itself as a "Robot Venture Factory." In an interview we conducted via a Beam robot -- where I dialled into Blue Ocean's offices and navigated a Beam from its docking station around the office and into a private room -- Blue Ocean's CEO and co-founder Claus Risager said his company is not buying Suitable itself: the deal includes only the IP, staff who work on Beam robots, hardware inventory and other related assets. Currently, there are a few versions of the Beam on the market: the two main categories are a smaller robot that is priced around $2,000-$4,000, and a larger Beam Pro that sells for around $15,000 per machine. The key with Blue Ocean's development to date is that it has built a "toolbox" (Risager's term) that it uses to build different robotic hardware -- one of its most successful has been its UVD Robot that can perform remote, ultra-violet-based disinfection in hospitals and other infection-prone environments -- that it will be using to develop iterations of the Beam. That could mean that long-rumored ideas of the Beam getting robotic arms and other appendages could be coming at some point.

A robot being developed by Blue Ocean Robotics uses ultraviolet light to disinfect rooms. The Danish company is targeting the product first at hospitals, where there's a high danger of patients contracting infections. In a 2011 study, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said patients acquired 722,000 infections during treatment at health-care facilities in the U.S. that year and 75,000 of those patients died in the hospital. It's a problem that Blue Ocean hopes to resolve with its UV disinfection robot. The robot uses large ultraviolet lamps to kill bacteria.