Transforming education with leading-edge infrastructure and applications

 

School districts across the country have transformed teaching and learning by running state of the art applications over advanced networks. This web seminar will illustrate how you can cost effectively upgrade your infrastructure and increase bandwidth capacity, allowing the district to take advantage of applications such as streaming video, video on demand, distance learning, school safety tools, unified communications and web portals for improved parent-teacher communications.

Topics to be addressed include:

  • Trends in educational technology that promise to transform learning
  • Examples of how districts have implemented educational technology and improved learning outcomes
  • Why the choice of networks matters.
  • What to consider when evaluating different types of applications

Scheduled speakers:

  • Sara Dexter, associate professor of technology leadership, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia
  • Daniel Carr, executive director, Comcast Business Services

Who will benefit:

Superintendents, district CIO’s and CTO’s, technology coordinators, federal funding coordinators. Anyone may register.

 

Date of broadcast: 
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
2 pm EST