The University of London Computer Centre is proud to organise and host the 4th annual Future of Technology in Education conference. We have always been keen to keep FOTE a free-to-attend event and like to thank our sponsors for their support.
CampusM
CampusM are the sponsor of the FOTE11 mobile app. We will share the links to download the iOS, Android and web app in a separate blog post once they have been approved.
The campusM™ Mobile Platform powers a portfolio of mobile applications, bringing together a suite of campus-based information services directly to the smartphones and tablets of students, visitors, staff, alumni, prospective students and conference delegates. Based on open standards, the applications ensure easy and rapid integration with a wide range of data sources from any legacy or third-party university system. This versatility keeps communities connected with personalized content, to enhance their university experience in a way that was never possible before. Developed by UK based oMbiel, all applications are specifically designed for the iPhone®, iPod touch®, iPad®, Android and BlackBerry, and also available as a web application, to enable a rich user experience across hundreds of devices worldwide.
For more information, visit http://www.campusm.com/
Echo360
As a global leader in blended learning and lecture capture products, Echo360 helps higher education institutions keep pace with modern students’ learning needs through products that digitally record instructional content. Echo360 has been recognized with the 2010 Product Line Strategy of the Year Award from Frost & Sullivan and named a Visionary Vendor in Educational Technology by IT research firm Basex.
Echo360’s products facilitate better instruction for large collections of students, lower costs and enrich learning experiences by enabling students to easily access and share multimedia content. Through Echo360’s platform, students can replay recorded sessions and review additional information from instructors online; at their convenience and across various devices. 400 colleges and universities in 28 countries use Echo360’s products, including Purdue University, New York University, the London School of Economics and Political Science and many others.
For more information, visit http://echo360.com/
EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information.
For more information, visit http://uk.emc.com/
JISC RSC London
JISC RSCs – We are a free Advisory Service funded by the UK Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) through JISC Advance. We are present in every region of England and also in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Our role is to help you deploy technology to engage learners and to improve organisational efficiency and effectiveness. This is the fourth year running that the RSC London support FOTE, an event that has become established in the calendar of activities available to everyone interested in technology in education, both from the UK and abroad.
In our twelve years of existence, the RSCs have lived through unthinkable transformations in the way learners, teachers and managers view and use technology. And that is one of the key reasons why we embraced FOTE from year one! The future of technology depends greatly on what we do now.
Key to our achievement has been the unique network of practitioners associated with the RSCs throughout the years. Such close relationships have helped empower managers to make the right decisions about technology. Our team strive to make us the first point of contact for advice and guidance on things related to technology for education. We provide advice on a number of key Government agendas, including: Network Management, Staff Development, e-Safety, e-Assessment, Green ICT, Sustainability, Business Processes, Digital Literacy and many other aspects of technology in education. To access our support, visit www.rsc-london.ac.uk.
Kulu Valley
Kulu Valley is the official streaming partner of FOTE11, allowing people to follow the conference remotely in real-time.
Kulu Valley’s award winning visual communications platform innovates education by giving lecturers the tools to easily create, manage and distribute their ideas and information to students, with maximum impact. The Kulu platform allows teachers to quickly and easily create professional-quality video lectures and combine them with graphs, presentations, web links and other documents. These engaging, interactive visual messages, or Kulus, communicate ideas more effectively than traditional lecture-style education, helping students to better understand and absorb the information. Lecturers don’t need to be IT experts to quickly create and publish professional, rich visual messages straight from their desktop to students around the globe.
For more information, visit http://www.kuluvalley.com/
Microsoft
Microsoft will once again sponsor the post-conference drinks at this year’s FOTE event.
With a focus on enabling anytime anywhere learning for all, our commitment is to the success of each educator and student. Microsoft partners with education communities around the world to deliver relevant, effective and scalable technologies, services and programs that focus the contributions of many on improved outcomes for all.
For more information, visit www.microsoft.com
MTI
MTI is a trusted expert in the provision of information infrastructure and cloud solutions to more than 1200 customers across EMEA, successfully supporting 2000+ installations. From global enterprise companies through to local specialist businesses, MTI delivers storage, computing, virtualisation, networking and datacenter solutions and services across all continents from its European bases in the UK, Germany, France and The Netherlands. MTI was the first VCE coalition partner in Europe to sell and deploy a Vblock solution in EMEA. MTI can provide holistic cloud-based storage solutions to customers on a bespoke basis.
Hallmarks of Success:
- Virtual Computing Environment (VCE), Vblock Partner
- Outstanding capability in the managed-service arena, supporting cloud infrastructures and Vblock technology
- 23 years in business world-wide, establishing credibility and substance - “nobody knows the Data Centre better than MTI”
- Produced 44 patents in RAID and fault tolerance, underlining the strength of technical expertise born of this heritage
- World class partners, including EMC, VMware and Cisco
- EMC Velocity² Signature Solution Centre Partner
- VMware Premier Solutions Provider
- Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Authorized Technology Provider (DCUC ATP)
- Cisco Advanced Data Centre Storage Networking Specialization (DCSN)
- Cisco Advanced Data Centre Networking Infrastructure Specialization (DCNI)
- Strong financial standing and reserves, with major US equity funding, which supports MTI’s double digit growth and profitability.
For more information, visit http://www.mti.com/
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