Education Business

Collaborative learning tools, video-conferencing and digital signage can all help create an educational environment that excites and inspires both students and teachers.

From virtual field trips and lectures from remote experts to non-competitive testing and distance learning, audio-visual technologies offer new teaching methods that help educational organisations create a more stimulating learning experience and reach a larger number of students.

By equipping facilities with audio-visual solutions, educational establishments can:

Attract and retain more students
Improve student performance
Optimise teachers’ time by enabling them to focus on planning lessons rather than creating teaching materials

To ensure the benefits of new technologies are not counteracted by poor availability or spiralling support costs, education providers need to ensure they are sourcing, implementing and managing audio-visual solutions as efficiently as possible.

Our solutions include:
Collaborative learning tools: Tools such as interactive whiteboards and learner response systems encourage greater student participation and enable teachers to spend less time preparing materials and more time developing interesting and inspiring lesson plans.

Digital and media signage: From canteen menus and administrative messages to directions for visitors and emergency instructions, digital displays can help educational organisations provide information in a more compelling and timely manner. As well as keeping students and visitors informed, digital media and signage solutions reduce the need for costly printed material and can even provide an additional source of revenue through sponsored advertising.

Video-conferencing: By equipping classrooms with video-conferencing solutions, schools, colleges and universities can facilitate guest lectures from remote experts and support the twinning of institutions across diverse locations. As well as enhancing communication and collaboration, video-conferencing can reduce the need for travel and so minimise costs and carbon emissions.

Building management systems and CCTV: Automated environmental and security controls can minimise carbon emissions and simplify compliance with safety regulations, particularly in the event of an emergency.

Networking: An optimised network infrastructure enables educational organisations to get the most from their audio-visual technologies and can provide secure remote access to teaching materials and the intranet for distance learners.

How Computacenter can help
We help schools, colleges and universities implement the most appropriate solutions for their needs. We can help at every stage of the process, from selecting and installing technologies to configuration, training and support.

Computacenter’s services ensure that education providers implement the solutions with the greatest return at the lowest cost. Our experience means that we can minimise risks and disruption to teaching schedules throughout implementation projects.

Whether you need a single audio-visual equipment purchase or fully integrated collaborative learning environment, we’ll use our expertise to find a system that meets your precise requirements. Our strategic relationships with leading vendors, such as Epson, LG and Promethean, ensure our customers have access to best-of-breed technologies.

Computacenter’s skills, services and solutions span the entire ICT infrastructure which means we can help you to take full advantage of your existing investments and ensure new technologies are correctly integrated.

We offer flexible contracts to meet your budget and time constraints and take an open, pragmatic approach. We always provide independent advice and work with, not around, ICT departments.

Our education expertise
Computacenter consultants hold more than 200 vendor and industry accreditations. We are a Cisco Education Partner, Epson Education Partner, Smart Premier Partner, Promethean Premier Partner, Tandberg Premier Systems Integrator, Polycom Video Partner, Lifesize Education Partner, Nortel Education Partner, Compaq Preferred Education Partner and hold a variety of Microsoft accreditations, including access to Education pricing.

We have extensive experience of delivering audio-visual and ICT solutions and services to educational institutions, including , Doncaster College and Colchester College, Coleg Sir Gar, City Bristol College, Callington College.

Computacenter is an official provider for the public sector’s Buying Solutions procurement portal. Fully compliant with EC legislation, Buying Solutions helps to simplify the procurement of ICT software, hardware and associated services.

For more information
To find out more about Computacenter’s audio-visual solutions and other services, go to www.computacenter.com/audio-visual , email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call us on 0800 014 7420.