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Learning together—anywhere, anytime

Today's e-learning technology takes education virtually anywhere people want to learn. Students use online content in addition to textbooks and classes are held on the web or in a classroom.
Education institutions need to support these changes in traditional learning. Whether you want to boost classroom content, add distance learning, create a school portal, or improve learning management, Microsoft and our education partners can help.

Key benefits

Solutions for e-learning can help you advance education and prepare students for what's to come in many ways:

• Create learning content. Boost learning outcomes and unleash creativity by offering the engaging multimedia experiences students want. Students and faculty alike enjoy using lively multimedia content for classrooms and projects. And the tools for creating it—including Microsoft Office, Office Web Apps, and other web-based tools—are readily available.
• Encourage anywhere, anytime learning. Take advantage of technologies that support distance learning to supplement and expand your offerings. With a unified communications solution, students and faculty can communicate from virtually anywhere using conferencing, video, VoIP and many other media.
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• Support cost-effective learning management. Get the tools you need to deliver, administer, and track learning content and to measure performance, activity, and outcomes. A customized learning management system is a cost-effective solution—especially for the many campuses that already have Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server.

Solving real-world issues

With e-learning tools, a unified communications infrastructure, and a learning management system, you can:

• Extend communication and collaboration from the desktop to the web and to mobile devices.
• Use digital notebooks to capture information, organize projects and presentations, and share learning content easily.
• Give your students the ability to build and maintain an e-portfolio.
• Incorporate pictures, music, and video into classroom content.
• Extend classroom instruction with audio and video broadcasting, including the ability to record broadcasts for later use.
• Create a central online place to distribute, complete, and collect assignments; give quizzes or tests; post classroom schedules; and manage online discussions and conversation threads.
• Track student progress and assess learning outcomes.

Customer success

• Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina, launches online courses, measures learning outcomes
• Jackson-Madison County (Tennessee) School System implements unified communications solution to reduce costs

Get started

Find the right technology experts, software applications, and professional services to help your school or higher education institution.

Next steps

• Find a Microsoft education partner to develop unified communications and distance learning within your organization.
• Find a Microsoft education partner to help you plan out and create a learning management system.