Engage Students and Staff
Educational institutions must provide the right infrastructure and training to ensure students and faculty can safely and seamlessly connect through virtual classrooms. But what about outside the classroom? Institutions must recreate the campus experience, virtually, to keep their students engaged with the school and each other even when they are physically remote.
What technologies are needed for effective distance learning?
As higher education institutions implement distance learning, they must ensure the right technology tools are in place. This article provides a glimpse into the impact these tools can have and the top five categories to consider when getting started.
What can we help you accomplish?
Through our education technology expertise, best-of-breed partnerships and experience deploying technology infrastructure, we build secure remote learning solutions so your students can achieve more.
Integrate Meetings into an LMS
Using Cisco Webex Education Connector, institutions can integrate virtual meetings, office hours and collaboration functionality into their learning management systems (LMS) to provide students and educators everything they need in one familiar location.
Standardize on Collaboration Tools
No matter which collaboration platform your institution chooses — Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, Zoom — the key is to implement it consistently across departments and teams to streamline workflows and drive user adoption.
Train educators on technology
As new technology tools continue to enter the classroom, it's critical that your staff are properly trained on how to use them. This will allow staff to realize the full potential of these tools and incorporate them into their teaching in innovative ways.
Achieve learning outcomes
Administrators must understand the principles of hybrid and blended learning and be prepared to implement and optimize these models to achieve their learning outcomes. Explore our tips for getting started.
Improve the remote work experience
Institutions rapidly implemented remote work solutions so faculty could continue teaching safely from home. Now, it's time to start optimizing those solutions to provide a seamless, secure and more productive experience for faculty and staff.
Simplify IT procurement
WWT holds more than 130 contract vehicles in 27 states, allowing educational institutions to avoid the solicitation process, save resource time, and receive exceptional customer service and competitive pricing.
Schedule a free consultation with our industry experts to learn how to plan and implement new remote learning models and create better virtual experiences for your teaching staff.
Growing state university evolves student-teacher collaboration with unified strategy
When a major university added more online instruction options for students, their IT staff turned to WWT for help developing a unified collaboration strategy. We helped the university identify, test and implement a suite of collaboration tools as well as train instructors on how to properly use them.
A guide to hybrid and blended learning in higher education
What's the difference between hybrid learning and blended learning? How can my institution implement these models? What are the benefits and challenges? This article answers these questions and more and provides tips for getting started.
Technology from the student perspective
Watch this 50-minute video to see Colorado School of Mines students share with WWT's Janet McIllece and Amanda Kwon their thoughts about the role technology has played during the last year.
