To strengthen teacher effectiveness and provide an ever-richer learning environment, today’s education institutions must use a wide range of innovative solutions. Verizon Wireless, along with its partners, has developed products and solutions that enable advanced learning opportunities by providing students and faculty anytime, anywhere learning access and multimedia collaboration, and provide a safe and secure campus, all while leveraging wireless technologies.

Examples of these solutions are:

Mobile Broadband service provides access to America’s largest high-speed network so you can send and receive information and data on a wide variety of mobile devices, and get secure access to company data and information.

Example Scenario:

Challenge
Your school’s strategic plan calls for enhancing learning opportunities, expanding classroom reach with distance-learning options and enabling one-to-one teaching, with the goal of improving student performance.

Solution

• Verizon Wireless smartphones added to your school’s learning tools.
• Mobile access to the Web over the Verizon Wireless network.
• GoKnow® Mobile Learning software to convert curricula into smartphone-based lessons.

Results

• Students can access e-books and texts using already-familiar devices.
• Teachers can expand the curriculum in new ways, in a medium that comes naturally to them.
• You also attain one-to-one computing for every student in the classroom.

Business Solution Partners

Monitoring and Control solutions help you maintain the safety and security of your business property, equipment and assets by enhancing the automation of industrial, infrastructure or facility-based processes.

Example Scenario:

Challenge
When HVAC issues are reported at numerous buildings, it can become a challenge to dispatch a building engineer to investigate each problem without real-time data. You need a way to manage these problems efficiently.

Solution

• Sensors on HVAC systems to monitor operation and other factors.
• AirLink™ intelligent wireless gateways from Sierra Wireless.
• Netbooks and Verizon Wireless Mobile Broadband Built-In.

Results

• Now you can make assessments of campus HVAC systems and catch issues right when they start.
• Your staff saves time with the ability to repair some problems remotely.
• Monitoring HVAC systems shows where energy can be conserved.
• You serve students and faculty by responding to system issues that make the buildings too hot or cold.

Business Solution Partners

Unified Communications provides seamless integration of multiple communications services, ensuring that your mobile workers can communicate simply and consistently across multiple devices like their mobile and desktop phones.

Example Scenario:

Challenge
You want to find a way to give faculty and staff limitless access to the information they need, whenever they need it, from wherever they are located.

Solution

• Smartphones to access learning management portals, back-end systems and research applications.
• BlackBerry® Enterprise Server so staff can access Web and email and personal information services.

Wireless Email Solutions: BlackBerry®

Results

• Faculty and staff can remotely log in to school systems from smartphones.
• Faculty can collaborate more easily with colleagues, manage appointments and work on presentations.

Business Solution Partners

Voice and Messaging solutions allow your mobile workers to make phone calls and exchange voice, text, pictures, video and instant messages to drive your business productivity and processes.

Example Scenario:

Challenge
You would like a reliable system that can quickly and easily send messages to students, faculty, parents and staff.

Solution

• Smartphones from Verizon Wireless.
• A mass text messaging system from 2sms.

Results

• Parents get more reliable notification in the event of a school closing.
• You send important messages to students, faculty and staff.
• School staff saves time by sending messages to mass mailing lists.

Business Solution Partners