All previous ways of learning, teaching and communicating are facing revolutionary transformation. Cisco's #EducationNow blog series will help you not only adopt distance learning, but also imagine an even brighter future of education.
Next in the Customer Story blog series, see how one teacher from a regional secondary school in Beechworth, Victoria used Cisco Webex Solutions to expand her world outside of the classroom.
Imagine a school where students use mobile devices to learn from anywhere at any time. Students can interact face-to-face with classmates around the world. Where students and educators who can’t be present in a classroom can still be part of the
It all started with an idea: what if we could bring students from different schools in different parts of the country together to discuss civil rights issues?
While many are arguing the existence of a comeback in liberal arts education, too many public schools are seeing a decline in arts education due to budget and resource cuts. The benefits of music and arts education are well documented, but we continue
What will the future be like? As depicted in today’s popular movies and books, the future is either one of bright promise—where the world’s greatest problems have been solved by technology and greater human enlightenment—or it’s a dystopian world
With students and teachers heading back to school, I’ve been thinking about when attended high school and college. For me, collaboration meant getting together with study groups, phone calls for homework help and office hours with teachers. For my two
For the last four or five years, I’ve watched as the Idaho Education Network (IEN) has implemented and reaped the benefits from their distance education program and use of video conferencing, or telepresence. To this day, they continue to improve on
It has long been known that a combination of both formal and informal learning is an effective way of turning theory (explicit knowledge) into practice (tacit knowledge). This includes working and learning alongside more experienced people, both
