Education leaders from around the world are using the Cisco Connected Learning Experience to transform teaching and learning, improve student outcomes and enhance administrative efficiency. That’s why we say that Cisco’s true value is not in what we make, it’s in what we make possible.

Cisco is pleased to present a series of free online learning sessions, June 25-27, that showcase how schools are using interactive video technologies to create engaging, collaborative learning experiences for students. These sessions will be streamed live from the Cisco Connected Classroom at the ISTE 2012 Conference, Just visit the Cisco Show and Share video portal at the indicated date and time to view your sessions.

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Tags: 21st century learning environment, edreform, edtech, education, flippedclassroom, ISTE, ISTE12

The Cisco Education Team always looks forward to ISTE, but especially so this year. In keeping with the theme of this year’s conference, we’re “Expanding Horizons” and taking a different approach. Instead of conducting demonstrations of our products and solutions for education in the exhibit hall, we’ll be hosting in-depth presentations in a dedicated room we’re calling the Cisco Connected Classroom.

Please join us at ISTE 2012 in room 24C on the Upper Level, to learn how schools like yours are leveraging technology to engage today’s students, improve academic performance, and enhance administrative efficiency.

We’ll be hosting a comprehensive line-up of professional development and learning sessions covering a range of education topics, including:

• How to Flip Your Classroom
• Leveraging Video for Virtual Field Trips
• Lecture Capture
• Mobile Collaboration
• Managing BYOD

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Tags: 21st century learning environment, Connected, edtech, education, flipped classroom, ISTE, ISTE12

ISTE is one of my favorite tradeshows, ever, and this is probably because it falls squarely between the school-year wrap-up and the glorious lull of quiet summer days, sans students. As June rolls around, and we find our summer rhythm, ISTE gives us a chance to reflect, together, on how technology is impacting education. 

The theme of the show this year is “Exploring Excellence.”  I believe that we need to do this together. As we reach an important inflection point in education where there is a global realization for the need to change, there is an urgent need to communicate and collaboration more effectively, share best practices, and find new ways to engage students in the learning process with technologies such as video streaming and conferencing, online learning, and other innovative web-based learning tools and models.  Together, we can explore technologies that will help you to create excellent learning environments for your students.

ISTE provides the perfect forum for this free exchange of ideas.  And, we are especially pleased to have our newest family member, Tandberg, next door to us on the show floor adding new products in video and TelePresence to our offerings for Education industry.  We will be joined by education leaders, key partners, and customers.  Together with Tandberg, we are showcasing our Connected Learning solutions that help transform teaching and learning and enhance the educational experience for our students.  For the first time ever at an education event, we will jointly demonstrate our TelePresence solutions designed specifically for an education environment.

We will be featuring our Video Enabled Teaching and Learning Solutions, including Cisco MXE 3500 (Media Experience Engine), Cisco Show and Share, Cisco TelePresence™, Digital Media Suite, WebEx® for Education, Flip Video™ camcorders and theMedianet architecture. These technologies have been designed to help increase access to quality education, effectively engage students, reach students beyond the walls of the traditional classroom, deliver exceptional professional development programs, and provide opportunities for lifelong learning. Experts from Cisco and our partners will also be demonstrating our other solutions for Connected Learning, including Cisco Smart Connected Buildings, campus safety, digital media, network infrastructure, online learning, unified communications and more.

Visit us at Cisco Booth #2032 in the Denver Convention Center.  To arrange a booth visit with Cisco executives and education customers at ISTE 2010, contact Michael Quint, Qorvis Communications at mquint@qorvis.com or 703.298.3410.We look forward to seeing you at the show!

Tags: exploring excellence, ISTE, video enabled teaching