education

A shift in global economic power towards Asia has forced developed countries in particular to re-evaluate their own economic futures. A premium is now placed on the speed of innovation and the ability of countries to transition away from traditional manufacturing of more products, or mining of more…

Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) wanted to cut costs and improve student results. Cisco Digital Ceiling is illuminating the way. As the fourth largest municipal school district in the United States, M-DCPS in Miami, Florida has approximately 22,000 teachers and 350,000 students. In the hop…

Imagine a school where students use mobile devices to learn from anywhere at any time. Students can interact face-to-face with classmates around the world. Where students and educators who can’t be present in a classroom can still be part of the class. Educators, superintendents, administrators and…

The Presidents’ Conversation was conceived to bring together like-minded vice-chancellors and presidents in a forum for peer-to-peer discussion about a range of challenges and opportunities relating to universities and the digital economy. The concept of a global conversation of this type was sugges…

The thoughtful placement of technology in our education environments can greatly enhance the way students learn and educators teach. As we all know, it’s possible for students to partake in mobile and distance learning, to access a plethora of remote resources from anywhere on any device, and to ext…

Cisco’s hackathon with a Silicon Valley school empowers students to solve problems in their community with the Internet of Things. If we want to ensure that the talent pipeline is robust and plentiful for the digital world, we need to invest in it now. Academia alone cannot keep up, nor can it…

About 18 months ago, members of my engineering team conducted customer site visits and came back with a most interesting challenge. They met a Spanish teacher who needed to teach a physical/virtual class over video, but current technology constrained her ability to move about the classroom. Any teac…

Amazing things can happen when you connect the unconnected and allow students to learn without limits. Check out this infographic that shows the ways in which schools can innovate and transform with technology.…

Good news: the E-rate filing window has been extended! That means you have more time to apply for funding that can help your school district upgrade its IT infrastructure to better support digital learning. The filing deadline for the FCC Form 471 has been extended to May 26, 2016. This extension al…