Dell introduces new education cloud solutions

By eGov Innovation Editors | Jan 15, 2012

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Dell recently launched a new learning platform that integrates core education applications, digital learning resources and learning data to help educators address specific learning styles.

The Next Generation Learning Platform brings together curriculum management, digital curriculum and eBooks, lecture capture and features tools for chat and collaboration. It provides secure and integrated access to resources necessary to personalize teaching and learning and enable collaboration beyond the classroom.

“Our mission is to equip teachers, administrators and parents with the resources they need to ensure all students reach their full potential. Our Next Generation Learning Platform and our cloud and services capabilities are part of our continuing investment in and commitment to developing the solutions our education customers tell us they need to improve learning outcomes, " said Mark Horan, Dell global education vice president.

Dell’s team of educators and administrators ensure proper usage and application of predicative analytics and teaching and learning data, the transition from print to digital learning environments and the integration of the learning platform into daily teaching practices including the use of collaboration tools and student engagement techniques.

Bill Rust, Gartner analyst, said that a key challenge in the years ahead will be the integration and support of disparate information, instruction and education service resources in a world of choice where students and staff are using quite personally owned or selected devices.

"School agencies should begin now to look for device and OS agnostic solutions that integrate and deliver resources to users regardless of what they are using to gain access," he said.