Cisco Education

Last updated on 15 Feb 2010 in Further & Higher Education

Connected Learning Solutions with Cisco and Equanet

Creating Connected Schools

In a connected, on-demand society, learning is everywhere, and just a few keystrokes away. Cisco works closely with schools to respond to the demand for new learning approaches that help prepare the next workforce, and promote social equity.

Connected Learning solutions facilitate the highly secure, convenient, real-time interaction school communities expect. They help build a safe environment, enhance administrative efficiency, and improve access to engaging, lifelong learning opportunities.

Digital Media System

Universities today face the tasks of improving campus communications, accommodating different learning styles, and enrolling more students without adding classrooms.

You can meet these challenges with the Cisco Digital Media System (DMS) by distributing live and on-demand video to PCs and digital signs. DMS lets you deliver effective communications instantly and in a way that scales, engage students with a variety of educational materials, and provide distance learning. To help you get started, Cisco has designed the Education Starter Pack. This simple, specially-priced kit combined with our flexible financing offer includes everything you need to implement Cisco video solutions on your campus, at a significant savings. A state-of-the-art, 10-display Digital Media System enables you to choose components to build your digital signage system according to your needs.

Extending the value of DMS, Cisco's Media Experience Engine (MXE 3000) allows teachers and students to create content once, customize it as needed, and distribute it in the right format anytime, anywhere on any device. And the easy-to-use editing and production tools help make digital media content more effective.

Mobility for Higher Education

Higher Education in Motion

The Cisco Unified Wireless Network brings high-performance wireless to your students, faculty, and staff anytime, anywhere on campus--both indoors and out--so you can:

Improve campus security
Enhance learning
Streamline operations
Advance productivity
Promote collaboration

Cost-effectively deliver flexible, scalable high-speed wireless and deliver the right applications, using the right policies, to the right user at the right time. Meet and exceed your mobility requirements with the Cisco Unified Wireless Network.

Unified Communications

Optimize Your College or University Network to Improve Communications

Colleges and universities are evolving their current communications systems to improve collaboration and security. With modernization projects and new construction, institutions are evaluating their existing technologies, and consolidating all voice, data, and video functions into one efficient system. Unified Communications for Higher Education replaces your basic telephone connectivity with an IP-based communication system that:

delivers advanced voice services
improves security
enhances collaboration among students, faculty, and the community

With Unified Communications for Higher Education, it is easy to help your college or university dramatically improve communications, while reducing costs.

The Virtual Classroom

Bringing a World of Resources to Students, Faculty and Staff

Communication, collaboration, and learning are the fundamental building blocks of higher education. Students expect to use the latest technologies, and many prefer dynamic online content to static printed materials. Distance learning and e-learning enable institutions to deliver more engaging content to both on-campus and remote students, creating a new and potentially significant revenue stream.

Enhancing education through video and rich media elements can:

Provide anywhere, anytime learning experiences not traditionally available to all students

Offer a better way to present abstract ideas, making them easier to understand

Eliminate the barriers of time, distance, and resources

Permit faculty, staff, and students worldwide to function as if they were in the same room

Cisco's Virtual Classroom solution is an integrated learning and administrative environment that enables academic excellence and administrative efficiencies. The Virtual Classroom strategy focuses on the implementation of a network platform that can enable highly interactive and collaborative learning and teaching learning experiences while delivering any content, anytime, anywhere to any device. As a result, Cisco's goal is to provide a scalable a solution that will provide education institutions the necessary technology to solve business problems and address important issues, such as increasing student participation and graduation rates, in a cost effective and successful manner.

The Virtual Classroom solution is comprised of:

Unified Communications
TelePresence
Video over IP Technologies
Wide Area Application Services

The Virtual Classroom solution is designed to allow educational institutions to expand the reach of their offerings, both in a geographic and time-based manner. By utilizing web, video, and audio collaboration and scalable content delivery technologies, educational institutions can now reach students that are unable to physically attend class. Additionally, instructors and professors can record and edit pre-existing content into the recorded sessions and then post those content objects for the students to download to various devices, such as a mobile device. As a result, the schools can now scale their assets beyond their physical presence, such as subject matter expert or sign language teacher, to other classrooms and locations. Lastly, the ability to record the classroom events allows the student to also refer back to earlier classes for review, or playback a class they missed.

For more information about these, and other fantastic eduation support from Cisco, contact youtr account manager on 084 871 2704.

Cisco Systems Silver Certified Partner logo