Higher education cloud: Five principles to transform the student experience

Institutions of higher education are increasingly adopting new IT models to support student services and enhance learning. When education is faced with acute constraints in the budget, resources, and enrollments, today’s reality in higher learning is that academic processes are relying on paper-based and manual provisioning processes. Here are the five key principles to transform student experience with the adoption of cloud and mobile services.

1. Prepare for the next wave of cloud and mobile computing

There are cost-effective ways to accelerate the service delivery to students, faculty and staff through advanced automation. The first step in education transformation is IT consolidation through cloud and mobile technologies and adopting shared services model institution-wide and streamlining their IT assets.  

2. Amplify the student voice in higher education

Students and faculty all over the world are demanding for better services through secure access to information from online and mobile devices including iPhone and Android phones.

3. Reduce operating costs & eliminate data redundancy

With cloud and mobile services, higher education can eliminate redundancy in brittle and fragmented IT environments and reduce capital and operating costs. They can respond quickly to the varying needs of students, faculty and staff by supporting them on a variety of platforms and devices to seamlessly access information wherever they are on and off campus.

4. Promote collaborative learning and discuss the big picture

Academic institutions can transform student and faculty services and enable greater collaboration and agility within departments, campuses, colleges and universities and fulfill their unique education needs.    

5. Optimize resource allocation and encourage creative thinking

Increase efficiency, reduce staff workload and optimally allocate resources to classrooms on the basis of demand for courses and student enrollments. This will encourage creative thinking among students and faculty and makes a big difference to teaching and learning.

Whether your institution wants IT automation and enhance the services of students, faculty and staff, Creatrix Campus provides the ideal foundation in the cloud to transform higher education.