Webinars

Today’s K12 and Higher Ed schools face an extremely daunting mobile challenge. Students, parents, faculty, and administrators require secure online access to the school’s networks using an array of both personal and school issued devices. Regardless of where the users are or how they leverage the school’s environment, it is critical to maintain strict security and data integrity, all the while operating within increasingly tight budget constraints. This is a very difficult balancing act. Sound all too familiar? The Center for Digital Education invites you to a complimentary webinar that will investigate the critical issue of mobile security and management in our schools. We will have both K-12 and higher education IT administrators, as well as industry experts, discussing these challenges and providing current and cutting edge ideas and solutions. If you have the responsibility for managing school IT resources in today’s relentless Internet world, please join us for what promises to be an informative and thought provoking webinar.

Each year, the Center for Digital Education, in partnership with the National School Boards Association, invites all U.S. public school districts to participate in its annual Digital School Districts Survey. This survey recognizes districts and school boards that are making exemplary use of technology to provide better communication, to support student learning and to track district results. This webinar features some of the ranked winners of the 2011-2012 Digital School Districts Survey. Each presenter shares how their district is utilizing technology to more effectively serve students, educators and the community. .

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Employee time management, student retention, PO approval, and budget administration prove that school district operations can be extremely complex. A powerful and flexible financial and HR management system can simplify these back-office processes and help create greater insight for a more effective institution. Dave Matyas, Business Administrator of Central Bucks School District, and his team lead this complimentary webinar, discussing their recent implementation of a Microsoft financial management system. Matyas and his team further discuss Central Bucks district needs and how this implementation addressed those needs by strengthening district compliance, lowering IT costs, and increasing efficiency in processes up to 80%. .

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Virtualization is widely touted as a source of savings by many schools and colleges. However, that is only the beginning! The overall costs of storage are rising. While the cost per unit of storage is going down, the demand continues to skyrocket with growing enrollments and increased use of digital content in schools. Districts and colleges are now faced with the challenge of keeping costs low while continuing to provide an ever-expanding array of resources. By optimizing your storage environment, you can store more data using less space with lower operational costs. Join us on April 12th to hear from school technologists who have reclaimed time, money and resources by looking at storage efficiency. Attend this webcast to: Hear industry standards on storage effectiveness and efficiency Learn to evaluate your storage environment Find solutions that will help your IT budget go farther Ask questions and receive answers from industry and education experts on storage management .

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Capturing students’ interest and making concepts come alive is an educator’s and institution's greatest challenge. Microsoft Kinect™ is helping transform classroom activities, from academics to physical education. Educators are enhancing traditional lesson plans, physical education, school communications and after-school programs with extraordinary immersive, body-moving experiences that help students get engaged and stay on task. .

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This webinar highlights the emerging and critical aspects of infrastructure that campuses need to address to be prepared for the future. Discussed were key technology topics covered in the 2012 Q1 Converge Special Report on Campus Infrastructure such as networking, the cloud, data center virtualization, and storage and security concerns, as well as at the “people” side of the education equation: human resources, IT management and leadership. A panel of K-12 and higher education technology leaders share their personal experiences and set the stage for why infrastructure is so important to the evolution of education. .

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Do you know your total overall cost of printing? No? Well, you’re not alone. The Center for Digital Education recently completed a national survey to access print and imaging environments of Converge readers from K-12 and Higher Education organizations. Based on the responses, it is evident that education institutions are actively seeking cost-savings and efficiencies within their IT environment. However, 87 percent of K-12 respondents and 80 percent of Higher Education respondents indicated that they do not fully know what they are spending on printing. Additionally, results indicate that the respondents are challenged by their environment and feel that their current infrastructure is not meeting their needs. This webinar takes an in-depth look at the full findings of the survey and its implications. View the archived webinar and learn how to: • Assess your school’s printing expenditures and needs • Identify potential places to save much needed IT dollars • Ensure secure access to printers and imaging devices, You will also hear from IT leaders who are experiencing increased efficiencies and cost savings by more effecting managing their imaging and printing environment.

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The traditional elements of the classroom are changing. Once standard, the model of a teacher at the front of the room and students in rows of desks has evolved as learning environments have become virtual, ever-present and always available. The evolving classroom can include non-conventional education such as home schooling, private or charter schools. It can also be taken further to include hybrid learning, distance learning, virtual schools and instruction methods like project-based learning, flipped classrooms and personalized learning. This webinar highlights the myriad learning environments available today and provide a vision of what is to come.

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Technology is transforming education, but it can’t be said enough that it is not the technology itself that makes the change happen. Properly integrating technology into curriculum is critical. Each step of this process requires strategic decisions that impact the future of every student in the school system. This webinar walks the audience through some of these critical steps outlined in the handbook, “Planning for Progress in K-12 Education: Inspired Outcomes through Practical Technology Application.”

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Today’s students are hungry for technology. As mobile devices become more ubiquitous, increasingly it is not a matter of deciding if schools should allow these devices in the classroom, but of when and how. This complimentary webinar features education technologists who are using mobile devices for instruction and highlights how they are overcoming barriers to adoption.

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When used effectively, blended learning and lecture capture helps colleges and universities economically serve more students and better meet their needs. This complimentary webinar takes an in-depth look at the blended learning approach and how it can be leveraged for both individual courses and on an organizational level to improve flexibility and student outcomes.

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The Center for Digital Education proudly presented the first Yearbook issue on November 1, 2011. This Bonus Issue of the Converge Special Reports profiles leaders in K-12 and higher education who are using technology to transform their schools, districts or colleges.

View this webinar from Center experts and some of the education officials who are making a big impact on education.

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Each year, the Center for Digital Education invites all U.S. community colleges to participate in its annual Digital Community Colleges Survey! The Survey recognizes and showcases community colleges’ use of technology to provide a high level of service to their faculty, students, and communities. Top Colleges from the 2011 Digital Community Colleges Survey program joined the Center for Digital Education to discuss campus trends in: • Social networking policies • Cloud applications and virtualized environments • Longitudinal data systems • Top IT priorities • Student access to transcripts and grades • Online learning capabilities • And more! .

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Mobile devices have been transformative for education, opening the doors to almost endless opportunities for student learning. Students, faculty and staff expect access to school network resources using a myriad of Wi-Fi devices.

This webinar addresses how school IT managers can overcome issues of: Security, Bandwidth, Wireless Coverage, User management and Compliance.

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Educational organizations manage high volumes of data on a daily basis. This data is the fuel that keeps schools running — but it can also create some of their greatest challenges. Data needs to be accessible to school leaders, faculty, staff, students and other interested parties wherever or whenever it is needed, but it must also be controlled and organized appropriately to comply with privacy laws. In this Webinar, experts from Converge magazine and the Center for Digital Education held an interactive webinar to will help you do just that. .

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There is no question that digital content is transforming education. It is widely considered a money-saving endeavor, a smart environmental choice and the most flexible, individualized and relevant educational delivery model. This webinar examines key considerations for incorporating digital content and enable you to develop a digital content framework that ensures effective policy and practice.

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This no-cost webinar examines the emergence of education dashboards and best practices for leveraging data to support decision-making. We also provide tips for developing a dashboard that will meet your institution’s unique needs.

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In this webinar we will explore mobility and it's revolutionary effect on K-12 and higher education, and the challenges of implementing a mobile education environment and balancing access and content with the need for security and privacy.

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A server is a protected, high-tech warehouse where data and applications needed to power an effective school are delivered. But how do you know what you need? Learn Tips and Tricks and ask questions on how to make your serve dollars count.

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Students, parents, teachers and administrators expect 24/7 access to course material, grades, attendance, admissions and more. What’s more, they want to access that information from a dizzying array of devices, from traditional desktops and laptops, to smart phones and slick new tablets. In this webinar we explore the ever expanding role that digital learning plays in education today and the IT challenges and approaches to safeguard data and information systems.

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School leaders face the major challenge of supporting teachers with proper professional development to keep them current on digital teaching best practices. Professional development must keep pace with the emergence of new tools as the high art of teaching evolves to embrace and leverage digital resources. This no-cost webinar will examine the shift in the classroom dynamic as teachers utilize technology to engage students and improve the learning process.

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Digital content is transforming the way students consume information as well how teachers prepare lessons, engage students and access student achievement. This webinar will explore the boundaries of the digital content revolution occurring in K-12 and higher education and discuss the evolution of the learning management system as a resource for bringing digital content together for students and teachers.

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Graded winners from the annual Digital Community Colleges Survey program join the Center for Digital Education to discuss campus trends in: •Digital content and distance learning •Student access to transcripts and grades •Information security and infrastructure •Online library capabilities •Strategic planning •and more!

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Join this year’s winners for an internet seminar on the latest trends in Communications, Technology, Access, Strategic Planning and more.

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In this webinar we investigate the major digital infrastructure technologies on P-20 campuses today, including voice, data and video infrastructures as well as their unified applications.

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Join VMware and guest speaker John Halpin, Vice President of the Center for Digital Education, for a discussion on how virtualization can benefit K-12 schools, and how to leverage E-Rate funding to pay for it.

Hear about the hottest technologies that could come to (and transform) a classroom near you!

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Leveraging desktop virtualization as a means to provide anytime access from any device with Internet access.

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Hear how robust campus management systems are within your reach – even on a tight budget.

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Reduce costs and increase efficiencies by combining computer, storage and network facilities into one shared infrastructure. In this webinar, Jorge Mata, CIO from Los Angeles Community College (LACCD), shares how they addressed issues district-wide with converged infrastructure.

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Ranked winners from the annual Digital Community College Survey program join the Center for Digital Education to discuss campus trends.

According to a recent survey, 78 percent of students ranked improved retention of class materials as a core benefit to capturing classroom lectures. In this webinar, learn how the Nursing Program at Columbus State Community College implemented an affordable lecture capture solution that was both flexible for the faculty and beneficial for students.

This webinar will detail the latest trends in technology for the education market and how your school — no matter its size, budget or technical know-how — can take advantage of the current stimulus to fund a digital makeover in and out of its classrooms.

This webinar will provide an overview of what's happening with connectivity funding and the Stimulus, plus give a briefing on formulating your grant requests including discussion of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

The federal economic stimulus package infrastructure funds a long list of initiatives, and this discussion focuses on the stimulus monies and opportunities for investment in network security and other cyber infrastructure projects.