“Education is a human right,” noted Kofi Annan, “with immense power to transform.” But education is itself undergoing a massive transformation.
Smarter technology is rebuilding the systems that prepare us to engage with the world, revamping education to prepare everyone, throughout their lives, to participate in our digital economy. It is enabling learners of all ages, abilities, and financial means to fulfill their potential, regardless of their starting point.
Smarter technology levels hierarchies, empowering students to partner with educators and potential employers in creating pathways that will deliver them to the jobs we can’t yet imagine..
As the world’s leading provider of education technology, Lenovo is driving this revolution, transforming static educational systems into flexible, dynamic environments for lifelong learning. Powered by AI, VR, IoT, software-defined infrastructure, and big data analytics platforms, the systems we build enable distance learning, immersive learning, personalized learning, and scientific research, preparing students for 21st-century jobs.
Smart infrastructure equalizes access to education by untethering it from the constraints of time, space, and place. Our distance learning toolkit, coupled with virtualized desktop infrastructure, makes education a safe, secure, and engaging experience for both students and teachers wherever they may be.
LanSchool Air, a cloud-based classroom management tool for in-class as well as remote learning, not only keeps K-12 students on course but also fosters online communication, creative thinking, and collaboration—skills that equip them to compete well beyond school.
Digital transformation can be daunting. That’s why our end-to-end service solutions are as robust as our products. We help schools plan, configure, deploy, protect and refresh their IT systems, augmenting in-house teams with Managed Services that increase efficiency while minimizing downtime.
Our services have streamlined, for example, disk-imaging so that some 4,000 students and staff at Northern Michigan University can get a fully imaged ThinkPad in less than 10 minutes.
In high schools as well as colleges, our equipment and know-how provide the seamless digital interactions that support 1:1 learning programs.
Such interactions depend, in turn, on intelligent infrastructure: the servers, networks, platforms, and cloud computing solutions that facilitate everything from accessing wi-fi to downloading course materials to analyzing vast datasets. High-density Lenovo systems are already delivering the memory and processing speeds that allow tens of thousands of students and staff to get their work done, with capacity to spare.
Qilu University of Technology and others are using Lenovo Enterprise Analytics Platform (LEAP) along with our Big Data Services to train students in collecting, cleaning, and analyzing massive troves of data.
Using Lenovo workstations, institutions like Neumont College of Computer Science and New Jersey Institute of Technology are teaching technology by using the tools of the digital economy.
Lenovo supercomputers are empowering world-class research institutions to find solutions to society’s biggest challenges in medicine, energy, urban planning, and climate prediction.
All over the world, Lenovo devices are leveling the educational playing field by annihilating the barriers that keep underserved kids out of the game.
Lenovo Virtual Reality Classroom solutions are transporting inner-city kids to the depths of the Pacific, the expanses of the Sahara, and the furthest corners of the galaxy, widening their eyes to career possibilities in STEM through virtual reality.
Esports arenas built on Lenovo infrastructure are providing at-risk teens a sense of belonging and the strategic thinking and teamwork experience prized by future employers. In markets with an acute shortage of teachers, Lenovo is building platforms that connect subject matter experts with students hungry to learn.
By collapsing distance, overcoming differences, and leveling hierarchies, technology is fulfilling education’s promise of transformation. And by preparing everyone for the challenges of tomorrow’s global job market, smarter education is creating a brighter future for all of humanity, today.