education
Continuing To Build Success with the Internet2 Community
When I was in college, I didn’t have e-mail. Cell phones were rare and there was certainly no such thing as a smart phone, tablet, a laptop, or Google. Sometimes I look back and wonder how I ever survived without those technologies that have now become a necessity in my everyday life. As we…
Five Ways We Can Prepare the Next Generation of Workers for Tomorrow’s Technology
Consider this: Many of today’s top jobs didn’t exist 10 years ago – jobs like app developers, social media managers, and cloud computing administrators. By 2018, it’s predicted that there will be 21 billion networked devices and connections globally. The Internet of Everything (IoE) will bring it al…
The Not-So-Silent Revolution: The Internet of Everything in Higher Education
Change has come slowly to higher education. This is understandable given the relative success that the American university system has had in granting four-year degrees that have helped students garner higher long-term earnings. Regardless, the traditional university system is facing crushing press…
Two CSR Nonprofit Partners Win Tech Innovation Awards
Two of Cisco’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) nonprofit grantees, Gooru and Worldreader, have won 2014 Tech Awards from the Tech Museum of Innovation for their work in applying technology to some of the world’s most urgent educational challenges. Gooru is a free, open-source education search…
Converged Access Enables Next Gen Classrooms at PCTI
Passaic County Technical Institute (PCTI) is a leading career and technical high school located in Wayne, New Jersey. Listed among the best high schools three years in a row according to US News & World Reports, PCTI is the largest school of its kind in the state and represents a progressive lea…
IoE Can Be Key to More Energy Efficient Colleges
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…
Children Learn Coding and Collaboration at Cisco
“If you want to use the music from Frozen in your game, do you know how to download a gif to match?” Not the average question I have heard in a conference room at Cisco headquarters in San Jose, California, especially when asked to 7-year-old girls! The girls were part of a group of 14 children part…
New Edge Devices are Having a Cascade Effect on Public Sector IT Consumption
Multiple changes are on the horizon for public sector information technology managers. Over the next two years, IT organizations could be heavily impacted by these transformations, via a very distinct series of events. Government and education CIOs, program managers, and business process planners w…
A Major IT Shift – Delivering Business Outcomes
During geek-fests like CiscoLive, it’s easy to become hypnotized by all the amazing technology. So many smart people are innovating in so many amazing ways. When the party’s over, though, we all need to get back to business. Not just CIO’s and CTO’s – everyone in IT needs to focus on business…