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Samantha Vale
October 02, 2025

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Hey there, Tech Trailblazers! 🤖✨

In this issue, EdTech Innovation Hub reports that McGraw Hill has launched Sharpen Advantage, an institutional platform designed to help faculty and administrators create personalized learning experiences within the Sharpen app.

The tool delivers custom content to students’ mobile devices, tailoring videos, quizzes, and flashcards while predicting performance. Institutions gain visibility into learning gaps and receive real-time insights that support early intervention.

📰 Upcoming in this issue

  • 🎓 McGraw Hill Launches Sharpen Advantage

  • 🏦 Snowflake Adds MCP Support, Unveils AI Suite for Finance

  • 🔬 AI Framework Detects Melanoma With 99% Accuracy

🎓 McGraw Hill Launches Sharpen Advantage

Sharpen Advantage allows faculty to design custom study experiences and send them directly to students’ phones. The platform personalizes content, predicts performance, and gives institutions the tools to intervene early.

Key Takeaways:

  • 📱 Mobile Delivery: Faculty can build study playlists and push them to students’ devices for quick, on-the-go learning.

  • 🧠 Personalization: The platform adapts videos, quizzes, and flashcards in real time, predicting outcomes based on student interactions.

  • 🔎 Early Intervention: Institutions gain early visibility into learning gaps, enabling them to provide timely support that improves results.

  • 🔒 Responsible Use: Transparent engagement and performance insights help educators maintain oversight while driving retention goals.

🏦 Snowflake Adds MCP Support, Unveils AI Suite for Finance

Snowflake has added support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing AI agents to access enterprise data securely. It also introduced Cortex, a new AI suite tailored to financial workflows.

Key Takeaways:

  • 🔌 MCP Integration: MCP support enables AI agents to securely access Snowflake tools and data, improving interoperability across systems.

  • 🧩 Cortex AI Suite: A new finance-focused suite unifies data, models, and agents with prebuilt connectors and a growing partner ecosystem.

  • 🛡️ Compliance Controls: Governance, auditability, and residency features meet the strict standards of banking, insurance, and capital markets.

  • ⚡ Use Cases: Applications include risk analysis, KYC, fraud detection, and customer insights, powered by retrieval and orchestration within Snowflake.

🔬 AI Framework Detects Melanoma With 99% Accuracy

Researchers at Northeastern University have unveiled SegFusion, a hybrid model that identifies suspicious skin regions with high precision and classifies them accordingly. On the ISIC 2020 dataset, it achieved an accuracy of 99.01%.

Key Takeaways:

  • 🧠 Hybrid Design: U-Net segments skin regions, while EfficientNet classifies them, resulting in faster and more accurate melanoma detection.

  • 📊 Benchmark Win: SegFusion recorded 99.01 percent accuracy, outperforming leading models including ResNet-101+SVM and NasNet.

  • 🧪 Data Pipeline: Training combined HAM10000 for segmentation with ISIC 2020 for classification, balancing classes to address melanoma’s underrepresentation.

  • 🌐 Broader Potential: Future applications may include automation for dermatologists and adaptations for other cancers, such as breast and lung.

Why It Matters

Educators retain control in a curated, transparent environment, while students benefit from personalization and predictive analytics. Institutions can use early alerts to act before students fall behind, improving both outcomes and retention.

Until our next issue,

Samantha Vale
Editor-in-Chief
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