Dell has launched a product offering for educators, students, parents and administrators secure and integrated access to resources necessary to personalise teaching and learning and enable collaboration beyond the classroom.

For the last decade, as schools and universities have brought technology into the classroom, educators have had to rely upon multiple, disparate resources, including dashboards, grade books, maps and learning management systems to develop and deliver lessons.

Dell has brought together all of these resources with integrated data management and single sign-on access supported by professional learning services to make it easier for educators and faculty to achieve teaching and learning goals.

The Dell Next Generation Learning Platform integrates core education applications and resources needed to address specific learning styles, collaboration and data-driven teaching in an intuitive and engaging interface.

The platform accesses information from data management and student information systems to create a streamlined, robust toolset for educators and their students.

Interfaces are tailored specifically for educators, students and parents with the features most important to each of them.

District and system, educator and publisher content can also be accessed within the platform through a Dell-provided content repository that provides an innovative way for educators, parents, administrators and students to search, find, share, assign and report across a series of open education resources.

Dell Education Data Management integrates student performance data with predictive analytics to make it easy for educators to monitor student progress and intervene as necessary to improve student outcomes.

The data can be leveraged on its own and as part of Dell’s Next Generation Learning Platform.

Text-to-speech software, magnifying screens and touch-screen monitors can help students, specifically those with disabilities, access information, communicate with others and participate in classroom activities.

Gartner analyst, Bill Rust said a key challenge in the years ahead will be the integration and support of disparate information, instruction and education service resources in a world of choice where students and staff are using quite personally owned or selected devices.

“School agencies should begin now to look for device and OS agnostic solutions that integrate and deliver resources to users regardless of what they are using to gain access,” he said.