This document discusses how educational institutions can match current technology trends to educational needs. It summarizes key trends like cloud computing, smart mobile devices, and social media. It then discusses how today's students are empowered by technology and will take these skills into the workplace. The document advocates for early access to ICT to gain skills, join the global community, and become empowered citizens. It acknowledges constraints like bandwidth and resources that Africa faces and how cloud client computing can help address sustainability issues by providing long service life, low power consumption, and centralized management of computing resources.

1. Matching current
technology trends to
educational needs
Mark Jordan
Vice President, Europe Middle East & Africa
wyse.com

2. Agenda
1. Technology Trends
2. Today's empowered student
3. ICT priorities
4. Applying cloud computing
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3. Technology trend: Cloud Computing
Using internet
technologies to
deliver ICT as a
flexible service
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4. Technology trend: Cloud Computing
64% of higher education
CIOs expected toUsing internet
move more
technologies to
than 50% of their
deliver ICT as a
infrastructures into the cloud
before year-end 2015 service
flexible
Source: Gartner 2011 CIO Survey
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5. Technology Trend: Smart Mobile Devices
500
m
smartphones
shipped in 2011
1.5 bn
smart devices
forecast to be
sold in 2014
20 %
more smartphones
sold than PCs in 2011
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6. Technology trend: Social Media
Creating
global
communities
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7. The ICT empowered student
• Treats technology as a tool, not
an objective
• Already uses cloud computing
technology in personal life
• Is confident in his or her ICT use
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8. The ICT empowered student
…and will take these as a tool, not
• Treats technology skills into
an objective
the workplace
• Already uses cloud computing
technology in personal life
• Is confident in his or her ICT use
Public Entrepreneur
Business
Service
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9. Early Access: The ICT Priority
Become an
Early access Join the global
Gain key skills empowered
to ICT community
citizen
Local vs. Global
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10. eLearning Africa 2012 report
- Constraining factors on ICT
Limited Lack of human Lack of financial Limited Lack of training
bandwidth resource resources electricity
capability
17% 11% 11% 11% 8%
Sustainability
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11. 20th century classroom technology
• assumed plentiful resources
• was not designed to meet sustainability requirements.
3 year typical 100 watt power
3yr
service life requirement
Not suited to Skills required for
unreliable power installation and
supplies maintenance
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12. 20th century classroom technology
• assumed plentiful resources
• was not designed to meet sustainability requirements.
In order to deliver
3 year typicalubiquitous ICT access 100 watt power
3yr
service life requirement
governments and educational
institutions in Africa must place
sustainability issues
at the top of their requirements list.
Not suited to Skills required for
unreliable power installation and
supplies maintenance
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13. Addressing sustainability: Cloud Client Computing
Long Easy Very low power Centrally No
service life to secure consumption managed moving parts
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14. Delivering 21st century classroom labs
Cloud client
computing
Traditional
in-school ICT
Multiple school sites
1/10th the More reliable Reduced cost
power
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15. 3 points to consider while you are here…
1. How can you address the maximum number of
students as quickly as possible?
2. Can you take advantage of new technologies?
• Desktop
• Mobile
3. How do you make your approach sustainable?
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16. Cloud Client Computing in action around the world
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