To attract and retain today’s best students, educational providers are increasingly deploying new technologies that augment the balance sheet and optimize teaching and learning.

A number of campuses today feature mobile platforms; wireless networks; learning management systems that let students and faculty access, organize, store, publish and distribute course materials online; and distance learning applications that deliver text and audio chat, video, integrated whiteboards, and screen-sharing and remote desktop features. Administrative systems are getting a makeover with electronic document management to enhance customer service and workflow systems to improve administrative operations. With distance learning gaining in importance, online schools are experiencing rapid growth.

Web based self-service is making considerable headway. Students today go online to register for classes; view schedules and grades; pay tuition bills; manage financial aid; and coordinate housing arrangements. Technology is playing a key role in instructional design efforts and in establishing new and effective ways to engage learners and assess learning outcomes.

An increasing number of educational providers are building classrooms with interactive whiteboards and student response systems, which allow faculty to deliver multimedia-rich presentations. Institutions are also leveraging new technology tools outside the classroom, such as virtual learning, online collaboration software, and online textbooks and other digital content. Teachers are even embracing blogs and social networking and incorporating them into their coursework.

Adoption of cloud computing is on the rise as schools seek ways to offer technology services more cost effectively. Some are turning to the public cloud for hosted applications and services, such as e-mail. Others are taking advantage of virtualization to build their own private clouds, which lets them maintain full control of their infrastructure.

Marlabs delivers solutions that enable educational institutions to make the most of their technology investment, streamlining both instructional and administrative procedures. These include:

• Analytics and Reporting: Our analytics and reporting frameworks target and solve ‘real world’ educational challenges such as tracking student assessment, stepping up program results, and optimizing resource allocation, while helping you comply with state and federal reporting needs.
  
  
• Asset Management: A wide range of assets can be managed using our asset management frameworks, from basic classroom facilities to transport, food services, and technology assets. Instilling industry leading best practices, the systems help reduce operating expenses and maintenance costs while elevating capital utilization and return on investment.
  
  
• Scheduling: When it comes to organizing people (faculty and students), classes, courses, facilities, and events, our scheduling frameworks ensure optimum use of time, resource, and space and streamline enterprise workflows.
  
  
• Learning Management: Realizing a complete e-learning infrastructure for creating, managing, tracking, delivering, and assessing interactive training courses is made easier with our learning management frameworks.