{"id":44664,"date":"2020-01-06T11:45:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T11:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=44664"},"modified":"2020-01-06T11:48:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T11:48:23","slug":"how-the-edge-is-set-to-reshape-the-world-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2020\/01\/06\/how-the-edge-is-set-to-reshape-the-world-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Edge is set to reshape the world of education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gamal Emara, Country Manager – UAE at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, says educational institutions rapidly need to understand and implement the benefits of Edge networking. \u00a0\u201cThe Edge offers the potential to enhance student performance, confidence, and mental wellbeing,\u201d he says. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The education industry has undergone a technological revolution over the past decade, but there\u2019s still one major shift on the horizon that brings together many of the technologies that have been pegged as revolutionary (Augmented Reality, for example) \u2013 in fact it is essential for success in the education sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That technology is Edge Networking and far from being a\ntechnical concept, it\u2019s something that educational institutions and local\ngovernments rapidly need to understand and implement. The Edge offers the\npotential to enhance student performance, confidence and mental wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We define the Edge as the new experiences being enabled by Edge\ntechnologies for teachers, students, employees and any users of network\nservices. Edge technologies allow the processing of data by devices at the Edge\nof networks, which is where users and devices are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is where things connect to the network, whether they are\nwired or wireless. The Edge is where actions take place. Over time, these\nactions at the Edge will become smarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opportunity at the Edge is driven by many things,\nincluding smart applications powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine\nLearning (ML), mobile devices, Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, data\nanalysis, next-generation Wi-Fi, 5G communications and \u2018edge-to-cloud\ncomputing.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new Edge network combines AI, ML and automation to\ncontinuously learn, predict and adapt to changes, needs and threats in real\ntime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new Edge network utilises technologies and software to\nmake sense of the resulting insights, enabling businesses to act and respond, optimising\nthe experience for the customer or user wherever they are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pushing intelligence out to the Edge will drive\nchange in the design of our products, services, processes, and organisations\nand transform how decisions get made \u2013 giving greater autonomy to the\ndevices at the Edge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Gartner, Edge Computing will be a necessary\nrequirement for all digital businesses by 2022. With potentially trillions of\ndollars being invested in the hope of generating huge economic returns, the\nargument for paying attention to the Edge opportunity is clear and the window\nfor learning and action is narrowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edge Technology \u2013 Transforming education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Edge offers the potential to enhance student\nperformance, confidence and mental wellbeing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Barnes, Director of Technology at Bryanston School in\nthe UK, outlines the following scenario: The technologies provide the\nfoundation for a boundaryless environment, where students are supported by AI\nthat monitors, manages, and facilitates their learning experience and supports\ncollaboration between students, enabling access to key resources, in the\nclassroom or lecture theatre, across the facility and in their home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, in the classroom, AI would monitor indicators of\nstudents\u2019 comprehension and comfort with the subject matter being taught. If a\nstudent is thought to be struggling, the system would provide additional\nexplanation and guidance in the classroom and then offer to replay video of\ncritical parts of lessons and lectures during self-study outside the classroom.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The system would also curate content from across the Internet\nto help the student go deeper into a topic or find more understandable\nexplanations and help bring complex concepts to life through simulations and\nAR\/VR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personalised learning plans could be created and continuously\nupdated from the data accumulated about the individual and their preferred\nlearning styles and mediums. Teachers would monitor this and refine it in\nconversation with students and their parents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The teacher\u2019s experience can also be enhanced through smart\nclassrooms that promote collaboration and adapt to each educator\u2019s preferences.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exploring the longer-term potential for radically new\napproaches to education, futurist Bronwyn Williams highlights the critical role\nof the Edge technologies in changing the way we can access information wherever\nwe are by \u2018connecting human brains to the cloud.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Wood suggests the use of \u2018mobile devices and headsets\nby which people can join into virtual classrooms at any time\u2019 could further\nenable the notion of a boundaryless future of education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Markets and Markets study emphasises three major growth\nfactors for IoT in education: increased use of connected devices in schools and\nuniversities, eLearning and widespread cloud-based solutions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A range of new revenue opportunities is opening up that could\nmake a major contribution to the finances of education institutions: capturing\nvideo of the best lectures and making them available for a micropayment to\nother institutions and individuals around the world; allowing external\nbusinesses and individuals to book classroom and laboratory space on demand to\nhave their own meetings or work on developing their own ventures outside normal\nschool hours; collaborating with other institutions to conduct expensive\nlaboratory experiments \u2013 one partner could do the lab work while the others\nviewed or analysed it and\nshared the costs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gamal Emara, Country Manager – UAE at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, says educational institutions rapidly need to understand and implement the benefits of Edge networking. \u00a0\u201cThe Edge offers the potential to enhance student performance, confidence, and mental wellbeing,\u201d he says. The education industry has undergone a technological revolution over the past decade, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":44667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,809,38,185],"tags":[3211,3355,114,2073,4775,10992,53,5832,1822,3430,184],"class_list":["post-44664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-more-news","category-networking","category-uae","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-aruba","tag-augmented-reality","tag-edge","tag-edge-networking","tag-education","tag-gamal-emara","tag-hewlett-packard-enterprise","tag-machine-learning","tag-uae"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44664"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44670,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44664\/revisions\/44670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}