Enterprise communications is undergoing a fundamental shift. These solutions are connecting employees, keeping them engaged, supporting social collaboration, enabling a wider variety of workspaces as well as devices, and ultimately, keeping employees productive and talent retained. Looking beyond 2016, there are several trends to take notice of that are creating a new way to work […]
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Extending the Life of Your ERP for Smarter Operations
Many school districts across the U.S. are facing increasing enrollment due to rising and shifting populations while much of their budgets and resources remain the same.
While there are major advancements in nearly every type of technology for the K-12 market, school administrators and IT departments have to make selective choices about which technologies will have the most impact in a school or across an entire district. Often that means that learning and other classroom technologies will take budget precedence over […]
Legrand Releases LEED Product Guide to Help Reach Certification
Architects, designers and building owners can download the guide to learn what Legrand products will help them reach LEED certification goals.
Legrand North America, the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures, recently released its LEED with Legrand Product Guide. The informative 16-page guide provides architects, specifying engineers, designers and building owners with an overview of Legrand products that contribute toward LEED certification. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a rating system devised […]
ITT Tech Officially Closes After Federal Sanctions
The for-profit higher education institution discontinues all academic operations permanently after sanctions preventing ITT Tech from receiving any federal aid for tuition.
If you’ve ever been home sick from work watching television, odds are at some point you’ve seen a commercial for ITT Technical Institute. It’s often a tale about a student success story, showing how the for-profit college helped a struggling young adult get a degree and begin an exciting new career. You won’t be seeing […]
Truth About Electronic Medical Record Adoption
Your EMR will streamline your practice. It will allow you to see more patients in a day. It will help you track meaningful patient data to improve care.
You’ve heard it all before, the exhausting mantras of EMR sales reps. The truth is, that in most cases none of those things are true. More likely, your EMR has upended your practice and thrown everything into chaos. As a physician, you’re either seeing fewer patients a day or you’re at the office charting into […]
Putting a Whiteboard in the Hands of Every Student Creates a Collaborative Classroom
When we unleash the power of existing computers, 1:1 programs, and BYOD devices to allow whiteboarding anytime and anywhere, every student benefits.
As central classroom displays have evolved from chalkboards to dry erase boards to interactive whiteboards (IWBs), whiteboarding has grown more interactive and technologically sophisticated over time. More than a decade after their first appearance in classrooms, it’s clear that IWBs and panels can engage students—but cost, the need for training, and concurrent use by many […]
Students Build Writing Skills with This Auto-Grading Solution
More than a million words needed to be read each semester in a single class at this university, until they turned to tech for help.
More than a million. That’s the total number of words that instructors at Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona, needed to pore through each semester for College Composition I. Approximately 250 full- and part-time students take the course each year at the Arizona community college, which requires students to submit written essays totaling approximately 4,500 words […]
Amazon Alexa Voice Control for Videoconferencing?
Commercial AV better get ready for Alexa, as the Amazon Echo device is about to significantly advance voice control in AV control programming.
Last month Dallas, Texas hosted a tradeshow dedicated to the audio visual industry. CEDIA is all about the residential segment of AV, but that doesn’t mean it has no impact on the commercial AV channel. One of the more significant bits of news to come out of the show last week was the integration of […]
Dell Updates Advanced Analytics Platform Statistica
Latest release of Dell Statistica further enables edge analytics by delivering workflows to any edge device or gateway.
Dell Software Group announced the next major release of its award-winning advanced analytics platform, Dell Statistica 13.2. The latest release of Statistica helps companies transform their businesses and achieve new levels of success by embedding analytics everywhere and empowering a wider community of users and use cases. Key features include new collective intelligence capabilities to […]
University of Kansas Turns a Coffee Bar into a Collaboration Suite
Two towering NanoLumens video displays punctuate University of Kansas’ well-designed collaboration hub.
A big deal is made out of video collaboration in the workplace. Columns are written about business’ shifts toward more interactive meetings. Webinars are offered on how to use video collaboration to leverage today’s remote and mobile workspaces. It’s less of a big deal in the world of education in that students are going to […]
