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Academic organizations are expected to make learning relevant
to students, prepare them for the workplace, and include parents in the learning
process. Your educators, staff, students, and parents all expect information to
be available and accurate whenever they need it.
A practical and effective response to these challenges is to transform the way you
support communication and information sharing through incremental steps that use
existing investments—and, at the same time, provide a foundation for growth as new
needs and initiatives arise.
The Microsoft Learning Gateway meets both objectives, helping your organization
build and deploy modern solutions that are based on the familiar Microsoft products
you use every day. The Learning Gateway is a framework that uses Microsoft Office
SharePoint Portal Server to bring together a wide range of Microsoft and third-party
products to meet academic needs. Working with your technology partner, you can select
the software components you want to add to the framework to create a highly customized
solution for your district.
Schools and districts around the world are using the Microsoft Learning Gateway
today to:
- Find, use, and share information. Each student can customize
a personal home page from which they can complete and submit assessments online,
e-mail questions to teachers, collaborate with others sharing photographs, videos,
and project work, see when educators and fellow students are online and communicate
in a secure environment.
- Share and view best practices. Educators can access the
customized templates, wizards, lesson plans, and other teaching aids included in
Microsoft Learning Essentials, a free extension to Microsoft Office.
- Manage administrative tasks more efficiently. Because common
information is readily available, there’s less need for school administrators, educators,
and students to spend time tracking projects, sending status updates, or monitoring
day-to-day details such as attendance or participation.
You can save time and money with the Microsoft Learning Gateway, too:
- Minimize training costs by using familiar Microsoft products.
- Build on your existing investments in Microsoft technologies.
- Take advantage of an open and scalable platform.
- Leverage the work of other academic institutions around the world.
- Offer a curriculum delivery system in their own language and test,
grade, and create lesson plans based on local requirements.
With the Microsoft Learning Gateway, you can address the increasing expectations
of your education community in a managed, controlled, and cost-effective way. The
license for Learning Gateway, a Microsoft Public License (MsPL), is an OSI-certified
Open Source license. Microsoft partners can provide additional, compatible applications
that integrate easily with the Microsoft Learning Gateway to meet more specialized
or complex requirements.
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