In New Mexico, drop-out rates are going down. In Luxembourg, literacy is going up. In Sardinia, Web access grows. And in Texas, registration lines shrink.
For educators using the power of HP technology to improve learning – and all the processes that support it – it’s all part of the school day. In fact, students can now enjoy educational opportunities they’ve never had before.
HP’s Managed Learning Solutions, a comprehensive portfolio of HP and third-party solutions for education, are making these opportunities possible as educators around the world strive to raise the quality of education.
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HP Managed Learning Solutions include applications and services used by students and educators to post and access curriculum, share knowledge virtually, use digital media, and communicate through single sign-on education portals.
Just imagine:
- Educators tapping into content and assessment management systems to post course materials and test students online, instantly reviewing results and altering lesson plans based on those results.
- Parents monitoring their child’s progress online in real time, rather than waiting for report cards to be mailed.
- Students accessing assignments and working on virtual projects via a secure portal, entering a digital classroom or digital library from their living rooms, or having wireless access to collaboration tools from anywhere on campus.
That’s quality education in motion.
HP’s Managed Learning Solutions are particularly strong because we collaborate with content providers who are experts in education, such as Thomson Learning, McGraw Hill, and Sirsi (libraries), as well as companies who provide e-learning tools such as Hyperwave and Blackboard® software. Making it all work together is HP’s multivendor integration expertise, which provides access across a wide selection of operating systems.
The result is a collaborative learning environment that engages and empowers students in new ways.
For example, in the U.S., HP helped the Las Cruces School District integrate mobile computing into the curriculum for a "hands-on" learning environment. This included a laptop for students from 7th grade on, iPAQ Pocket PCs for juniors and seniors, as well as a mobile classroom. As a result, enrollment of "at-risk" students increased and student attrition dropped by 50 percent in the district’s worst-performing schools.
Luxembourg’s schools are benefiting from one of Europe’s largest public education portals. Developed by HP Services, the mySchool! portal is accessed by approximately 46,000 pupils and teachers across the country, who search, communicate, collaborate and create content online. The solution helped Luxembourg align with the European Schoolnet initiative, which seeks to improve IT literacy for students. On an island off the coast of Italy, HP and third-party providers helped the School System of Sardinia create an educational portal that connects teachers, students and families to resources once limited only to the mainland. Now, schools across the region are part of a collaborative learning environment. Approximately 50,000 students can conduct online research, work on joint projects and connect via email, chats and forums with enhanced security features. Teachers share tools and experiences and access a broad range of educational resources, including online libraries of curriculum. |
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Classroom 2000 in Northern Ireland is an innovative e-learning initiative that leverages the learning, administrative and infrastructure solutions within HP Managed Learning Solutions.
A flexible technology infrastructure handles the demands of approximately 330,000 students and 20,000 teachers across about 1,200 schools, who tap into a rich mix of educational content and services. Inner-city students and those from rural villages also collaborate and learn from each other.
As a result, educators report that students are more engaged and motivated to learn as key performance indicators rise.
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Administrative systems, those that manage day-to-day operations, are sometimes considered the "necessary evils" of education. Yet without registration, attendance, mandatory reporting, finance, payroll and HR systems, even the noblest of educational pursuits would be difficult to realize.
Leveraging HP technology and services and relationships with world-class application providers, such as SAP and Oracle/PeopleSoft, HP’s Managed Learning Solutions provide the administrative solutions schools need to increase information access, better manage student data, meet regulatory requirements and more.
Today, school districts, ministries of education and university systems are leveraging HP-based administrative solutions to integrate information islands and automate previously fragmented or manual processes, such as registration and grading. They’re decreasing repetitive, labor-intensive data entry by tracking, monitoring and sharing student progress online, via master data records – enabling them to reach new levels of efficiency and cost-control.
For example, HP worked with Oracle/PeopleSoft at Texas Christian University to deploy a Web-based solution that decreased registration from 45 minutes to just 5-10 minutes while reducing the staff normally required to help students throughout the process.
Comprised of 10 nationally accredited colleges, two skill centers, multiple satellite extensions, and a student body of more than 277,000 students year-round, Arizona's Maricopa County Community Colleges ranks among the nation's largest community college systems. Unlike typical four-year colleges, classes start every day and they're frequently self-paced with no hard and fast starting or ending dates.
Over 100 HP servers running Oracle/PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions provide a flexible, student-centered system with a single record for every student—a must for a school with so many campuses. Students, many of whom frequently switch between schools, can now enroll and make changes in real time over the Web. Student administration software automatically calculates fees and reconciles state funding and course rosters. These capabilities are critical in an age when accountability is paramount in education. Call it "No Child Left Behind" in the US, "National Grid for Learning" in the UK, or the "Western Universities Computer Network" initiative in China, schools around the world are being tasked with accurately tracking and reporting student progress, teacher credentials and fiscal performance. |
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Learning and administrative solutions need a solid foundation to build on. HP’s Managed Learning Solutions includes end-to-end solutions for building a rock-solid, tried and true infrastructure from desktop to datacenter.
HP’s Adaptive Enterprise solutions for education provide a comprehensive set of IT products, services and solutions. This includes high-performance servers, reliable desktop PCs and mobile handheld devices, as well as solutions for imaging and printing, IT consolidation, management and more secure computing.
The challenge lies in bringing it all together amidst the heterogeneous, non-integrated IT found in most schools. HP’s open and adaptive systems infrastructures, combined with expert consulting and integration services, creates a seamless infrastructure that paves the way for streamlined administrative processes and collaborative learning.
At the University of Lincoln in the U.K., an HP imaging and printing infrastructure creates a Total Print Management solution that reduced print volumes by 25 percent and saved £100,000 in just one year. Students now go to any of the 85 HP LaserJet 9000mfp devices spread across the university, enter their PIN and print. The solution provides students with a convenient way to print and the university with a way to recover the cost of printing.
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