API Launches ConnectAIQ: A Smarter, AI-Powered Platform to Transform Experiential Learning Across Campus
Austin, TX — Tuesday, May 27, 2025 – Academic Programs International (API) proudly announce ConnectAIQ, a next-generation experiential AI learning platform designed to revolutionize the way institutions develop and deliver hands-on learning opportunities, as well as the way they advise and coach students. Formerly known as APIConnect, the platform combines smart, AI technology, scalable innovation, and powerful data tools—all at no cost to API member institutions.
More than just a name change, ConnectAIQ represents a bold leap forward: an open, agnostic platform where any school or provider can build, curate, and manage any experiential learning opportunity, all while protecting student data. From study abroad to internships, from faculty-led programs to research and service experiences, ConnectAIQ unifies everything in one intelligent, user-friendly space.
“With ConnectAIQ, we’re building the infrastructure for our entire sector and for the future of experiential education,” said Patrick Vogt, CEO at API. “It’s a truly inclusive and adaptive AI platform that meets students and universities where they are—while providing the real-time data and smart tools needed to scale access to life-changing learning opportunities. And, with Membership, it’s free to access and use.”
Key benefits of ConnectAIQ for students and institutions include:
- AI-Powered Advising and Coaching: Delivered throughout the student lifecycle,
- AI-Powered Course Matching: Help students stay on track with degree progress. Known as the Global Course Navigator, this app provides intelligent course mapping and personalized program recommendations.
- Mobile-First Experience Delivery: Meet students wherever they are—on campus, abroad, or in the fild—with timely, critical details delivered through a student-facing mobile app.
- Custom-Branded Hubs: Easily build and promote a curated catalog of experiential programs aligned with institutional priorities, brand, and cost-of-attendance.
- Centralized Program Management: Design, share, and approve all types of experiential programs—from study abroad and internships to exchanges and campus-based initiatives—in one place.
- Actionable Data & Insights: Track student interest, identify advising trends, and use real-time analytics and reporting tools to inform program development and strategy.
- Smart, Scalable Innovation: Combine modular program components to develop new models that meet evolving student needs and institutional goals.
ConnectAIQ empowers institutions to serve more students, more effectively, by embedding experiential learning into the heart of the student journey—from discovery and advising to program completion and beyond.
As demand grows for scalable, tech-enabled solutions that expand access to real-world learning, ConnectAIQ is the connective tissue between student potential and transformative experience.
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