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Southern Cross Uni ‘connects’ with Huawei
CHINESE technology giant Huawei, in partnership with Southern Cross University (SCU), hosted the ‘Building a Better Connected Education’ themed 2015 Education Summit at the Gold Coast on September 3 and 4.
The event presented a key discussion forum addressing the trends and challenges shaping the future of education in the digital age.
More than 150 people attended the summit including section leaders from the Queensland Department of Education and Training, International Data Corporation (IDC) industry analysts, senior representatives of Huawei’s partners and customers from the education industry such as Peking University and Blackboard, along with international experts and academics specialising in digital education.
SCU vice chancellor Peter Lee said re-inventing its digital networking facilities and systems, with input from Huawei, was helping to transform the university’s capabilities.
“SCU is a multi-campus institution,” Professor Lee said. “We had a need to update our network facilities to meet the expectations of students, including the use of mobile devices on campus, as well as the capacity to video-conference across our campuses.
“With Huawei, SCU will build an agile and reliable network to provide teachers and students with network access anytime and anywhere. High-speed internet connectivity and data transmission will also enhance daily operations and management.
“The advanced network infrastructure will be an essential part of driving the future development of SCU.”
“Information technology is transforming the way we teach, learn and administer in the education world,” Huawei Enterprise Business Group vice president Dong Wu said.
“At Huawei, we are committed to collaborating with customers and partners in the industry to develop the intelligent, agile and innovative ICT architecture needed to create better connected education.”
Massimiliano Claps, the head of government, healthcare and education research at IDC Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), said, “Traditional teaching and learning approaches are being replaced by hybrid and diverse learning methods where students are at the centre of the learning process.
“Teachers are no longer just lecturers and learning is no longer confined to classrooms. With digital transformation, personalised online learning is gaining greater momentum.”
Huawei South Pacific ICT solutions marketing director Sue Bryan said, “Huawei’s smart campus solution is designed to integrate a variety of education resources on campuses through an agile network that can be easily customised to cater for different needs.
“The solution allows customers to improve the reliability and stability of their information systems and mitigate network operation and maintenance pressure – and by extension costs – by leveraging virtualisation management.
“We expect these ICT technologies to drastically improve learning efficiency and to help drive the transformation of the whole industry.”
Ms Bryant said Huawei was committed to working with partners and customers to provide primary education institutions, universities and vocational schools with innovative ICT solutions, “including agile campus, education cloud and smart classroom products and services”.
Key institutions using Huawei ICT solutions include Imperial College London, Newcastle University (UK), Peking University, Tsinghua University, Southern Cross University and Northern Michigan University.
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