Tag: education

Feed: What's New. Author: Katharine Bierce. Salesforce.org wanted to understand how higher education is evolving around the world. Together with Ipsos and the Chronicle of Higher Education, Salesforce.org surveyed more than 2,000 students and staff across 10 countries to better understand their needs amidst the tumult of the pandemic. The second edition of the Connected Student Report highlights what’s top of mind for students—and how staff and higher education institutions can foster student success.  Here are our top five takeaways for higher education institutions across disciplines, including data literacy. Data skills educators, dig into the analytics with our Trends in ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . Over the past year, the pandemic has drastically altered the educational landscape. 55 million K-12 students in the United States suddenly found themselves in online or hybrid learning environments. Educators needed new ways of managing their classrooms, keeping students engaged, and tracking their performance. Some school districts took an ad hoc approach to the software needed to support digital learning. Educators had to learn and log in to multiple applications, adding complexity and inefficiency to an already harrowing time. These solutions also often fell under general-purpose categories and were not always well-suited for the education market. GoGuardian ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Steven Brady. September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. The Barnes Foundation, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit cultural and educational organization, is home to a legendary art collection including some of the world’s most important impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern paintings, alongside objects and art from diverse cultures and time periods. At the core of its mission is the advancement of education and art appreciation. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reported that 90 percent of arts and cultural institutions around the world closed their doors ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Greg Ritter. Over the past 18 months, we’ve seen amazing innovation among our higher education customers in the face of complex challenges as the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the need for new strategies around work, learning, and research. The pandemic accelerated institutions’ need to transform not only their infrastructure and systems, but the models and methods for how they meet the needs of learners and their institution’s mission. Higher education institutions that hadn’t previously considered the cloud prior to the pandemic are now investigating how to begin their cloud journey. In this blog post, we ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Kimberlee Carlile. Wednesday, August 11, 2021: Idaho Gov. Brad Little (left) greets Amazon Web Services’ Kimberlee Carlile (with whom he’s shaking hands), Aaron Osmond (middle), and Bruce Larson (right) at the Idaho State Capitol. Photo by Otto Kitsinger for the Idaho STEM Action Center. This week, Idaho Governor Brad Little announced an initiative between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Idaho STEM Action Center to train and reskill 2,000 residents in cloud computing in the next two years. This collaboration will support instructors through training and professional development to teach cloud computing courses throughout ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Sandie Matthews Sandie Matthews, CIO, New South Wales Department of Education The former CIO for the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPC), Sandie Matthews, has replaced Stephen Loquet as CIO for the NSW Department of Education.Matthews was appointed in August 2021 and had been leading the IT directorate in the department on an acting basis since April 2021. As part of the NSW Government Sector Employment Act, which provides mobility for senior executives across the public sector, Matthews was temporarily assigned to NSW Department of Education before being formally transferred on 9 August 2021.A NSW Education ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Meenoo Rami. With the back-to-school season just around the corner, school and university administrators, educators, parents, and students are preparing for another challenging year. The August release of Dynamics 365 education accelerator includes updated data model and sample apps that can help partner ISVs continue to build and deliver solutions for schools and universities. In addition, the K-12 portal, an information hub built on Microsoft Power Apps, has been redesigned to make it easier for parents and students to track school activities and assignments. Plus, the release includes a data model aligned with Microsoft ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Courtney Totten. At Tableau, we have had a front-row seat to the rising need for data skills across all organizations, all communities, and groups.  From marketing, operations, to sales and all aspects of leadership -  everyone needs to know how to read and communicate with data. Since 2011, Tableau Academic Programs have been supporting the growing need for data skills by offering free resources for learning and teaching Tableau in the classroom - 1.6 million students - and counting -  have acquired data skills through our program. While we will continue building support and resources for ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Klaire Marino. During the pandemic, virtual learning relied heavily on video interactions like real-time video collaboration between students and teachers, streaming of large events such as orientations or large course lectures, and on-demand video content. In research commissioned by AWS in December of 2020 set to be released in an upcoming report, Hanover Research found that over 85 percent of higher education decision makers surveyed have already invested or plan to invest further in video streaming and conferencing solutions. But most leading video solutions are not purpose built for education, do not have features ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . The education sector has been amongst the hardest hit by the pandemic, with lessons, lectures and whole degrees disrupted, put on hold or abandoned. Meanwhile, travel restrictions have made a huge dent in university coffers by blocking the usual flow of overseas students to Australia.But many universities have stepped up to the challenge, deploying video conferencing, mobile and cloud-based solutions, as well as more sophisticated AI and other data analysis tools in quick time to keep students engaged and connected with their institutions and instructors.IDC A/NZ research director, Louise Francis expands on some of the more ... Read More