Technology firm IBM, US, has announced new cloud services to deliver advanced software, computer lab resources and services to students and researchers at schools, colleges and universities, without the need for advanced IT expertise at those locations.
The IBM SmartCloud for Education is projected as a set of cloud services and offerings designed to help education systems leverage predictive analytics to get real-time insights on student and institutional performance; enhance researcher effectiveness; and alleviate constrained lab resources for learning. By using the service, K-12 schools and higher education institutions can expect to address significant challenges such as student retention, graduation rates, grant funding, and demands for IT resources for learning and research.
Schools can analyse their own data using new SPSS models and tools running in a cloud to identify at-risk students at an early stage. Additional cloud-based social networking tools help discover and recommend funding opportunities and collaborators to researchers. Students and educators can also reportedly benefit from self-service reservation of and seamless access to virtual computer resources both on campus and on the IBM public cloud.
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