Customer Stories

Ithaca College aims to provide strong security throughout its digital environment to achieve its mission of delivering excellent education. But risk analysis and security threats are constantly evolving, and like schools everywhere, the college has many other uses for its funds.

“Books are windows to the world, and my job is to introduce the world to the students,” says Karey Killian, library media specialist for Pennsylvania’s Milton Area School District. Karey knows the role of school librarian is far more than just a keeper of books.

From 2014 through 2018, attackers compromised the computer systems of 320 universities worldwide and stole 30 terabytes of research data. As a highly regarded research institution, University of Southern Denmark (SDU) has valuable intellectual property to protect, making it a prime target for cybercriminals.

At Kaenoisuksa school, in Chiang Mai, Thailand, we face the unique challenge of bringing music education to roughly 600 students who don’t have the benefit of real instruments to practice with.

From the very first moment you step foot inside your classroom, you become a part of the “family” of educators.

In my state of Maharashtra, India, the school year starts in June. I was teaching 1st grade class in the village, a rural area, between 2016 and 2017. By the time it was July, we only had three admissions in my classroom.

Extra Credits rounds up the latest stories on innovative educational endeavors coming from other parts of Microsoft and the world.

Thanks to a mysterious combination of nature and nurture, I inherited two of my father’s most notorious traits: an obsession with Dairy Queen, and a fascination with outer space.

The teaching profession is not what it used to be. Today, it is both more challenging and more exciting than ever before.

Extra Credits rounds up the latest stories on innovative educational endeavors coming from other parts of Microsoft and the world.

With the school year in full swing, it’s time to debut our October edition of What’s New in EDU. Sorry, Halloween scare-fans: the only spooky thing about this one is how much news we squeezed into a single episode.

As teachers push the boundaries of modern pedagogy to give their increasingly diverse learners the best opportunities to succeed, technology matters.