SPEAKERS
Higher Learning: Making the move to a communication-enabled campus for better education
Robert Dolphin
When it comes to communication the higher education sector needs to deliver an innovative environment, the ability to co-ordinate and deliver information quickly as well as differentiating themselves to ensure that they attract and retain both students and faculty. Yet at the same time, universities are facing pressure to keep costs down.
Communication plays an important role in addressing these challenges as well as changing the way faculty teach and students learn. The increased uptake of social media, mass communication and web collaboration means there is a renewed emphasis on collaborative learning. This is pushing the educational community to adapt to new forms of communication infrastructure.
Higher education must find ways to leverage learning within the boundaries of students’ engagement with social networking. Sending emails is now the LEAST popular form of communication on campus; students want to communicate via social networking. They want to define their experience through personalised communication profiles and services that deliver their content through their preferred applications and communication services regardless of their location, device or network. They are also choosing their universities based on the technology capability provided on campus.
This presentation will provide an overview of how Avaya acquiring Nortel Enterprise Solutions will provide the education sector with a broadened range of compelling applications that will amplify students’ and faculty experience and productivity.
![]() | Robert Dolphin's Biography Robert Dolphin has worked in the telecommunications industry since 1981 and is experienced in both data and voice networking. His experience with carrier data networks includes involvement in the deployment of national X.25 networks in both Australia (Austpac) and Korea. And he has been involved with both Carrier Frame Relay and ATM networks. Since the mid 90s Robert moved to Nortel Enterprise business working with Voice and data networking, including deployment of a number of Voice over ATM and Voice over Frame Relay networks for large corporations. He also has extensive experience in converged IP networks, playing a key role in the design and deployment of a number of modern converged networks including the Department of Primary Industries, CSC and Clayton Utz. His current role with Avaya is as a Consulting System Engineer in APAC Tech Ops. |