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How Microsoft Learn is helping students to bridge the technical skills gap

How Microsoft Learn is helping students to bridge the technical skills gap

The role of educators in society is to empower the next generation for the road ahead. In today’s classrooms, that means equipping students with the skills to allow them to thrive in a digital future.  Already, digital literacy is an integral part of curriculums across Europe, from primary school upwards. For higher education  providers, however, […]

Vânia Neto

Vânia Neto

Education Skills Lead | Microsoft Western Europe

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Enable better learning opportunities with Open Education Analytics

Education institutions around the world are embracing a hybrid learning model. Yet many face challenges with data and AI due to dispersed or poorly governed assets and a lack of access to skilled professionals. Open Education Analytics (OEA) works to empower education institutions to overcome these hurdles to improve learning outcomes and provide students with the […]

Mark Fitzsimons

Mark Fitzsimons

Senior Education Solutions Specialist, Microsoft Western Europe

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On-demand webinar: Discover how to take research collaboration projects securely to the cloud

On-demand webinar: Discover how to take research collaboration projects securely to the cloud

Join us and learn how to seamlessly collaborate on sensitive data in a Digital Research Environment using Azure’s world-class security and services.

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On-demand webinar: Microsoft Envision: Hybrid and Blended Learning

On-demand webinar: Microsoft Envision: Hybrid and Blended Learning

This webinar introduces Microsoft’s point of view on hybrid and blended learning and the Microsoft solutions that uniquely support institutions taking a student-centered learning approach.

Innovation
On-demand webinar: A masterclass in making students, staff and institutions safe and secure

On-demand webinar: A masterclass in making students, staff and institutions safe and secure

Learn how to keep your students and teachers – and all their data – safe and secure, wherever they work, and whatever device they are on.

Innovation
On-demand webinar: Drive innovation in education with Microsoft Power Platform

On-demand webinar: Drive innovation in education with Microsoft Power Platform

Join us to get an expert view on optimizing your processes and automating tasks using Microsoft Power Platform’s familiar tools.

How the FH JOANNEUM University is preparing students for new skillset demands with the Microsoft Learn for Educators Program

How the FH JOANNEUM University is preparing students for new skillset demands with the Microsoft Learn for Educators Program

“Nowadays, if you want to pursue a career in medical informatics, you need to be highly skilled in software engineering, machine learning and more. Fortunately, that’s where the Microsoft courses are making the difference for me – helping me to start my learning journey and acquire the basis knowledge to later build expertise upon.” Daniel […]

Vânia Neto

Vânia Neto

Education Skills Lead | Microsoft Western Europe

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IT Sligo: levelling the playing field in education with cloud technology

“When it comes to learning new technologies, having the space to explore and play around is very important. With the solution we’ve put in place, our students now have that possibility. They can learn in their own time, from anywhere.” Shaun McBrearty, Assistant Lecturer in Computer Science at IT Sligo is explaining how teaching and […]

Shilpa  France-Miller

Shilpa France-Miller

Microsoft Education, Western Europe

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4 reasons Citrix and Windows Virtual Desktop are better together for education

Educational institutions all over the world experience a huge transformation. We are all familiar with the impact of COVID-19 on digitization in education, but there are more challenges. The digitization challenges faced by educational institutions   Because of the measures against the COVID-19 pandemic, like lockdowns and social distancing, the trend of online or blended […]

Wouter Ouweneel

Wouter Ouweneel

Azure Busines Lead — Windows Virtual Desktop

Accelerating Cloud Adoption in European Research and Education: The OCRE 2024 Framework and Microsoft Azure

Accelerating Cloud Adoption in European Research and Education: The OCRE 2024 Framework and Microsoft Azure

Streamlining Cloud Procurement and Empowering Innovation Across Europe European research and education institutions are increasingly turning to cloud-based solutions to enhance their capabilities, drive innovation, and foster collaboration. At the heart of this transformation is the OCRE (Open Clouds for Research and Education) initiative, an EU-compliant framework managed by GÉANT and designed to make cloud […]

Shilpa  France-Miller

Shilpa France-Miller

Microsoft Education, Western Europe

Microsoft and Quantum Computing

How to build a quantum computer

Professor Leo Kouwenhoven is a key member of Microsoft’s quantum team – and leads a team of researchers and engineers at the Microsoft Quantum Lab in Delft, in the Netherlands. We asked Professor Leo why it’s so difficult to build a quantum computer. Why is it so hard to build a quantum computer? We don’t […]

Leentje Chavatte

Leentje Chavatte

Microsoft, Data & AI and Digital Transformation

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