IBM SmartCloud Powers an International Approach to Education
February 4, 2015
Grazed from EdTechMag. Author: Dr. Frank Smith.
IBM is taking its Big Data and cloud capabilities overseas to help transform a French institution into a "smart business school" with international reach. EMLYON Business School has partnered with IBM to use the company’s technologies to provide a more personalized education experience to its international students.
Cloud computing techniques can make education more compelling and encourage students to explore more topics, Katharine Frase, vice president and CTO of IBM’s public sector, told EdTech. It’s also a technology that makes sense for a school that intends to offer courses in multiple languages to countries on multiple continents…
“We’re interested in how cloud computing can help you not only on the efficiency side of education, but particularly on the digitized side — to enable you to be more nimble and to have more global reach,” Frase said. EMLYON is also at the drawing-board stage with IBM on how its cognitive computing system Watson could bolster the school’s efforts, particularly Watson’s potential to overcome language barriers…
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