connected education

Partner Success Story Online learning is opening new doors in education. A more flexible curriculum means more people have the opportunity to go to college. One drawback, however, is the lack of face time with professors. Meaning, online students can’t get live feedback or ask questions in real time…

Partner Success Story Within the storied walls of Youngstown State University, leaders came together in pursuit of a vision. What was that vision? To get rid of those storied walls.   No, this isn’t a renovation project. This is a project about access, and expanding the university’s offerings to stu…

My eight-year-old is just starting third grade, and he is coping with the increased demands of a more rigorous school year.  Today’s educators are looking for new ways to improve education in earlier years, and there are some new options I believe should be taken into consideration. My son and his f…

Imagine that you have been diagnosed with leukemia and you will be going through cancer treatment for the next year. Now imagine receiving this news as a 12-year-old child, and realizing that you will no longer be able to attend school with your friends and peers. This is the exact situation that Ni…

It all started with an idea: what if we could bring students from different schools in different parts of the country together to discuss civil rights issues? After all, an issue that affected the whole country surely deserves a broader perspective than from just one school. So here in the Rochester…

School districts all around the country have been using E-rate funding to spark digital transformation in their classrooms. One such district is the Wayne Highlands School District. Wayne Highlands SD covers 435 square miles in northeast Pennsylvania and is the second largest geographic school distr…

For most colleges with multiple campuses, connecting separate locations is a challenge, but Central Georgia Technical College (CGTC), located in Macon, GA, faces a taller order than most: its campus systems extends across 12 counties that total the size of Delaware state! To address lower-than-avera…

The Internet of Everything (IoE) is becoming more real than ever, particularly in education. As we begin to see this massive transformation taking place, schools for both K-12 and higher education are utilizing Cisco networks to run applications and pilot projects that benefit both the students and…

Cisco – with more than 15 years of experience in implementing technology solutions in K-12 schools — strongly supports the goals of President Obama’s initiative to connect more schools and libraries to the Internet, and at faster speeds. We understand that technology is changing the world.  Ou…