Cloud computing in higher education

Bring education into the 21st century and reduce complexities, increase collaboration, and deliver optimal student support. Cloud technology solutions, are able to empower educators, improve learning, and accelerate student achievement. With ever-tightening budgets, higher education institutions struggle to respond to rising expectations for doing more with less. Learners expect a personalized and collaborative educational experience, and researchers need instant access to deep computing resources. Cloud solutions for higher education can help learning institution become more instrumented and interconnected, providing the intelligence needed to improve outcomes, find efficiencies and allow for collaboration.

Cloud Computing Solutions for higher education can help link higher learning institutions - whether IT, utility or administrative-to create a sustainable, efficient and more environmentally responsible institution. You can gather data about energy consumption, water usage, waste disposal and recycling from campus facilities such as housing, labs, offices and administrative buildings as well as data centers and research facilities. Additional information can be collected from converged networks, integrated controls and infrastructure components including unified communications systems and campus security apparatus, such as video surveillance.

Great ideas can come from anyone, and innovation tends to emerge when several people share and apply their unique perspectives. You can work smarter with tools that help you find new ways to drive insight and deepen relationships. Implementing a collaborative campus environment with tools and services that connect the community, you can create a culture of greater participation. Files, ideas and knowledge can be shared with a greater sense of personal involvement through co-ownership and co-editing of project documents and assignments.

To help open up new intelligence possibilities, our conference on Cloud Computing in Higher Education will make it easier to learn, share, network and acquire business, administrative and academic information which will be suitable for, and improve your institution's business operations. With cloud solutions, you can collect and integrate information from multiple decision support systems used across the learning institution and make cross-institution management reporting data available to academic, research and administrative personnel through security enhanced web-based access.

Date: 28 August 2014
Time: 07:30 - 17:30
Venue: The Focus Rooms | The Core in Sunninghill, Johannesburg
Cost: R8,990 per delegate excl. VAT

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