ICT Excellence Awards 2011

The ICT Excellence Awards recently took place in Dublin and HCS Business Solutions, made it through to the finals in the category of “Best use of technology in Education and Training”.

Now in its tenth year the ICT Excellence Awards showcases and celebrates the very best from the ICT Industry in Ireland, highlighting the innovative and creative projects and programmers in Irish ICT.

HCS Business Solutions was a finalist in the Education and Training category for their shared computing solutions initiative for schools and training facilities. The premise of this category was to recognise suppliers of products or services which best leveraged the benefits of using technology in education and training

HCS Business Solutions is currently working with a number of primary and secondary schools throughout the South East implementing shared resource computing.  According to Sean Hegarty, Director of HCS Business Solutions, the benefits of introducing shared resource computing in schools are manifold.

“Whilst every teacher has the welfare and learning of their students at heart, budget cuts and increased class sizes make it more and more difficult to engage and connect with all students on an equal footing.”

“With shared computing in the classroom students have their own monitor, keyboard and mouse which connect via a device to one single computer. By running shared computing software, the computer essentially runs in multiple instances creating a virtual workstation for each student. “
Shared Resource Computing is steadily gaining in popularity as teachers and trainers realise the importance of saving money, utilising resources to a fuller extent and involving students. 

 

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