Campus Technology Editor in Chief Rhea Kelly has published a series of articles on what industry leaders and technology developers believe 2026 will hold for AI, cybersecurity, and education technology. Kelly writes that AI is expected to become part of the embedded infrastructure of higher ed in 2026, with institutions moving forward from pilots and experiments. On the front of ed tech, Kelly notes that investors appear to be supporting technologies that are focused on access, flexibility, and different learning modalities. Meanwhile, with cybersecurity, several industry leaders told Kelly about the AI-driven threats that they see playing a significant role in fraud and security attacks. They emphasised that institutions will need to address constraints such as legacy systems and decentralized IT environments to better respond to the challenges.
