Nelson County Schools was struggling with outdated computers across all of its campuses. Nearly 70 percent of the student workstations were more than five years old, creating an array of problems and adversely affecting user experience. In some cases it was taking five minutes or more just to login at the beginning of class, making it difficult for teachers to keep students focused.
Maintaining older PCs is fraught with challenges that are especially difficult on a school’s budget and limited resources. From hardware components and processing power, to updating the latest applications and security—it’s a constant and expensive game of catch up. And the rapid rate of technological change will make newer PCs obsolete even sooner than the last ones.
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Macher Engineering and Electronics Company was founded in 1991 in the Hungarian city of Szekesfehervar as a green investment project in the form of a joint German – Hungarian partnership.
NComputing’s Distributor in Hungary, Alphasonic interviewed Peter Macher, IT Manager. They were treated to a tour of Macher’s operations and an account of why they chose, and how they are benefiting from NComputing’s vSpace Desktop Virtualisation solution.
Schools, Colleges and Universities in Africa talk about the benefits of the NComputing solution from the perspective of IT, teachers and students.
AMG India International is a non-government organization that is tirelessly working towards providing the basic essentials of life, such as education, to the less privileged sections of the society. Its endeavor to deploy NComputing to enable access to modern education for thousands of underprivileged students is also a step in the same direction.
Using computers as a systematic learning aid is still a dream of the future. Recent studies1 show that usage of available IT infrastructure in schools is below average and currently it doesn’t even meet today’s requirements. Nearly 80 percent of students in secondary schools never use computers in the core subjects such as languages, mathematics and sciences.
