TRENDING
J
ose Vasco, Regional Director, MEMA at Aruba, a Hewlett
Packard Enterprise company, says six new technology
trends have emerged in the field of higher education
this year.
IoT spreads institution-wide: IoT is swiftly expanding
beyond student devices. The onslaught ranges from
connected lights, door locks and sprinkler systems to
laboratory sensors, classroom instruction and student laundry
machines, with ever-more introductions in sight.
Everyone expects Always-on experiences: All campus
constituencies expect speedy performance from their devices
and apps, enabling them to work, teach and learn seamlessly
indoors and out.
Spaces become intelligent and context-aware: Context-
aware mobility is about adding intelligence to spaces so
that the space interacts with students. For example, when a
professor walks into a room, the configuration of equipment
and amenities can now adjust automatically to that
individual’s profile.
Wearables and location-awareness breathe new life
into retention efforts: It’s only a matter of time before
institutions begin leveraging data collected from mobile
devices and networks as students move about campus.
Virtual reality in classrooms takes hold: Wider access to
commodity virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR)
innovations is moving the technology out of research labs and
into classrooms.
All environments will be dense: Device density isn’t
limited to lecture halls anymore, but extends to dorm rooms,
cafeterias, sports fields etc.
As mobility and connectivity expectations move beyond
the human management abilities in any IT department,
much less those in higher education, higher education IT
departments will need to adopt more sophisticated and
intelligent solutions. These initiatives include:
“IoT is swiftly
expanding beyond
student devices.”
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“All of your campus
constituencies expect
speedy performance from
their devices and apps,
enabling them to work,
teach and learn seamlessly
indoors and out.”
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