Connected IT solutions make learning more effective.
Technology is giving educators access to multimedia content, online courses and material that enhances classroom instruction to improve all learning opportunities. While great for students and teachers, it presents a real IT challenge. It’s because the technical requirements of today’s connected classrooms are changing rapidly, and schools are continually playing technological catch up.
Just a few years ago, the challenge was to get a computer into the hands of every student. Today, that challenge also includes a struggle with provisioning and managing mobile devices and delivering sufficient wireless bandwidth.
As the network infrastructure at many schools continues to age, it becomes harder to accommodate the increasing demands of the connected classroom. IT managers must address demands for greater IT security, access monitoring and nearly limitless wireless bandwidth, while supporting the new connected classroom strategies, which include social media, multimedia, streaming video, flipped learning and gamification.
We understand the technological needs of today’s school systems. In fact, we have helped numerous educational institutions assess their enterprise infrastructure in order to identify new strategies that could be developed to meet the evolving connected classroom demands — without breaking the budget.
Drawing from years of experience working with school systems, OneNeck® IT Solutions delivers customized solutions for education, including:
Enterprise networking—Get the most of your infrastructure with a full complement of services that include design and deployment, consulting and application management.
Wireless networking—As the newfound foundation for classroom instruction, you need a robust wireless network infrastructure to support an entire school simultaneously.
Mobility solutions—Students and teachers are always on the go. You need an IT partner who can design and implement strategies allowing for secure mobile access, BYOD and mobile user management while extending your educational resources beyond the classroom.
Security solutions—In an educational setting, the challenge is finding ways to protect data stored on- premises, divert malware threats, ensure authentication and control online content accessed in the classroom.
Cloud services—To minimize infrastructure costs and increase flexibility, more school systems are adopting cloud services to host applications, provide data storage and enable collaboration. Cloud platforms and services can provide the ultimate in security, data accessibility and compliance.
Discover how OneNeck helped upgrade their network infrastructure
As a relatively small educational institution with limited resources, Mt. Mercy University had an aging network infrastructure that could no longer meet the needs of the institution, and they turned to OneNeck for help.
“OneNeck understood the importance of technology in education. They didn’t just drop off the hardware and make sure it worked. They looked at the overall IT strategy and made recommendations.”
Jeremy Pearson
Supervisor of IT / Fort Dodge Community School District
