- Dell provides end-to-end solutions for
higher education to support personalized learning
- Colleges and universities across the
country utilize Dell solutions on campus
- Universities and colleges prefer Dell’s
solutions for their manageability, affordability and
scalability
Dell today announced that colleges and universities are
partnering with Dell to create a digital-learning environment to
support their students and faculty with the tools and access they
need to prepare for the challenges of the 21st-century workforce.
From the data center to the device, Dell works with schools to
provide simple, affordable and manageable solutions to address
their IT needs and personalize learning for students. The company
will showcase its comprehensive set of higher-education solutions
at Educause 2013 in booth 1301, including the recently unveiled
family of Dell Venue tablets.
Developing entrepreneurial skills and providing tools and
resources also happens through the Dell Education Challenge, a
program in its second year and part of the Dell Social Innovation
Challenge to inspire college and university students across the
globe to develop projects to innovate primary education worldwide.
This year’s semi-finalists will compete for $30,000 in seed funding
from Dell and gain mentorship to put their ideas into action.
Through the Dell Education Challenge and personalized learning
solutions, Dell helps prepare students for their future
careers.
“At Dell, we know that the IT needs of a college or university
are incredibly diverse depending on their academic goals, student
body and campus infrastructure,” said Jon Phillips, director of
worldwide Education at Dell. “But what is consistent across all of
higher education is the imperative to graduate students ready for
the workforce. Dell is committed to delivering schools the
solutions they need to personalize learning and prepare students
for successful careers.”
The demands on IT are growing more complex as colleges and
universities provide students with access to learning anytime,
anywhere and on any device. A partner to a growing number of higher
education institutions across the country, Dell designs solutions
to address specific challenges for higher education based on its
years of expertise. Bringing innovation to the classroom, Dell
offers instructional technology to deliver online content and
engage students in learning and high performance computing (HPC)
solutions to accelerate research initiatives. Dell also empowers
colleges and universities with its education data management
solution that applies data-driven analytics to track student
progress and improve student retention and help turn data in
powerful insights.
To support these latest innovations in higher education, Dell’s
provides schools with end-to-end capabilities to build a reliable,
secure and affordable IT infrastructure from the data center to the
device. Dell’s virtual lab solution gives students access to campus
lab resources and applications from anywhere through desktop
virtualization technology and Dell Wyse thin and zero clients. In
addition, Dell’s software solutions address key areas of campus IT:
data center and cloud management, information management, mobile
workspace management, security and data protection. To deploy and
maintain campus IT infrastructure, Dell Services helps colleges and
universities address common pain points such as the migration of
Windows XP to Windows 7 or Windows 8 with its Windows Migration
Services.
Dell is working with the following higher education institutions
to support their learning goals and educate their students for the
future:
Academy of Art University chose Dell Precision
workstations to give their students a professional working
environment.
"Academy of Art University teaches aspiring students the skills
they need to become professional artists and designers, across many
disciplines including Architecture, Animation, Industrial Design
and Fashion,” said Dr. Elisa Stephens, president of the Academy of
Art University. “These fields require students to work in
demanding, performance-critical applications and we rely on Dell
Precision to meet their high-performance computing needs. Dell
Precision workstations are packed with the power and graphics
capabilities necessary for our students to produce their best work.
We find that the most dynamic learning environment is one where the
classroom matches the caliber of the professional marketplace.”
George Washington University partnered with Dell to
design and deploy a centralized high-performance computing
cluster.
“The Colonial One cluster, based on Dell HPC technology, will
tremendously boost the amount of computational power we can
dedicate to our projects,” says Andrei Alexandru, assistant
professor, Physics, The George Washington University. “We can now
carry out simulations that are more realistic and closer to
physics, which is something we couldn’t do before because we didn’t
have the computational power to do it.”
Kennesaw University transforms HR processes with Dell
Software’s Toad Business Intelligence Suite to deliver fast and
accurate HRMS, employment, benefits, and payroll services.
“We have multiple data sources, and we’re finally able to tie
all of them together with this solution,” said Brad Smith, director
of Payroll Services and Human Resource Information Systems. “We
wanted something easy to administer to deliver data and data
analysis tools to users’ desktops. That is what we got with the
Toad Business Intelligence Suite.”
Pepperdine University relied on Dell Software and its
Dell KACE family of systems management appliances to deploy an
enterprise client computing management system to automate and
consolidate the management of university-owned Windows and
Macintosh devices, faculty and staff computers, along with public
use workstations.
“The automation Pepperdine has achieved with our Dell KACE
device management solution has helped us close a critical gap in
information security as well as well as enhance the quality and
responsiveness of technical support for our colleagues at the
University,” said Kim Cary, chief information security officer for
Pepperdine University. “As a result, we have been able to shift
time and resources away from technical operations to focus more on
teaching and learning support.”
Southern Illinois University selected the Dell Latitude
10 for its one-to-one tablet program, the Mobile Dawg
Initiative.
“The Dell Latitude tablet enables students to go way beyond
reading course material,” said David Crain, assistant provost and
chief information officer, Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale. “With Windows 8, students are able to easily
conduct online research and connect to our campus apps, as well as
write reports and use the same software that they do in our
computer labs.”
University of Massachusetts Lowell deployed Dell Cloud
Client Computing solutions for learning anytime, anywhere.
“Our goal is to enhance the learning experience and give 24/7
access to the digital resources students need to excel,” said Steve
Athanas, Director of Systems Engineering, University of
Massachusetts Lowell. “By partnering with Dell to deploy virtual
labs, we not only give our students a flexible and state-of-the-art
learning and testing environment, we also save power and IT
resources to improve overall service delivery on campus.”
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Additional Resources:
More information, including images, infographics, full research
reports and blogs that further explore the research findings and
Latitude 10 for Education found here.
About Dell
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is committed to helping students
develop the knowledge and skills they need to learn and succeed in
an increasingly digital world and a globally competitive workforce.
As a top provider of technology and services to schools, Dell
listens to and works with students, educators, administrators,
parents and community members around the world to deliver
innovative technology and services that give them the power to do
more in and out of the classroom. Learn more about Dell in
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