The cloud: a smart move for higher education

whitePaper | January 31, 2020

As institutions of higher education embrace technology to enable learning and collaboration, they accelerate their adoption of cloud services and support for mobile applications. They are also deploying a wide range of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices as part of smart campus initiatives. With the influx of these new technologies, however, come increased risks to network security and to the intellectual property and personal data connected to it. University CIOs can competently manage these risks with the Fortinet Security Fabric.

whitePaper | June 13, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has, to some degree, impacted almost every single aspect of higher education. Students enrolled at colleges and universities across the United States are unfortunately not an exception to the negative impacts of the pandemic

whitePaper | August 14, 2020

The global k-12 education system is facing unprecedented challenges ranging from technology disparities to in-school health concerns. At the same time, the realities of COVID-19 are presenting U.S. school districts with the opportunity to restructure education with a forward-looking view on how students will learn and educators will teach in a post-pandemic world.

whitePaper | April 21, 2020

Seasonal learning research allows researchers to compare student learning patterns when school is in versus out of session. While there is some controversy about the magnitude of summer learning lossii,iii three trends are consistent across seasonal learning research findingsiv: achievement typically slows or declines over the summer months, declines tend to be steeper for math than for reading, and the extent (proportionally) of loss increases in the upper grades.

whitePaper | July 3, 2022

Understanding by Design and Project-Based Learning are two evidence-based learning strategies that have proven to be successful. K-12 leaders should consider these strategies as they look for evidence-based practices to help combat learning loss among their students.

whitePaper | August 1, 2022

Count educators, students and their families among those who struggled over the last two years, as K-12 schools became the epicenter of turmoil in local communities. Districts faced more scrutiny than ever — with the media tracking remote learning and safety measures as closely as rising COVID-19 cases and with parents gaining a daily window into what their students were (or weren’t) learning. Districts also dealt with the operational and instructional hurdles of “emergency room-to-Zoom” and keeping staff and students healthy, two challenges they had never faced before