Polycom® Education Solutions

Every day, educators and trainers are tasked with providing a wide range of content and services to administrators, staff, students, stakeholders, and employees. Yet even as they provide so many services, organizations must reduce operational costs and save resources while preparing and sustaining learners for today’s world and its increasingly global economy.

Polycom offers affordable and easy-to use—not to mention the most comprehensive—classroom and training solutions available today. Even as they enable a rich and productive learning experience, innovative Polycom solutions improve collaboration through natural interaction, allow for quicker decision-making, and extend your organization's geographical reach. In addition, Polycom solutions empower organizations like yours to function more efficiently on a daily basis, enable global partnerships, increase enrollment, and allow connection and interactions with remote subject matter experts.

Using Polycom solutions is like having an instant passport beyond traditional walls, time zones, and schedules into the very best learning environment.

Polycom® Solutions for Primary and Secondary Education

Produce knowledge workers for a global economy Enable interactive distance learning Provide mobility for administrators, faculty and students

From administrative meetings to instructional delivery, Polycom technology is used every day by educational institutions for countless applications. Our full range of standards-based solutions enable students to meet with faculty, provide easy access to subject matter expertise, deliver professional development, and conduct collaborative meetings—all accomplished virtually in the room or at the desktop.

Experience the power of Polycom UC Innovations in distance learning, for students of all ages, from K-12 to higher education to the corporate training room.

Distance Learning

Educators face a continuous need to improve learning as they prepare their students for a global workforce. By using Polycom's collaborative solutions educators are able to offer a low-cost, high-impact way to extend the interactive learning experience.

• Extend course offerings – Offer courses to advanced learners, special needs students, faculty, staff, parents, and community members
• Enhance and share expertise – Greatly extend the scope of your classroom by tapping into the field of experts and professionals throughout the world
• Realize educational equity – Enable remote campuses and homebound students to take advantage of learning opportunities thus creating educational equity
• Student Collaboration Projects – Collaborate with another class to discuss issues that are controversial; learn about a different culture or community; participate in a student-led discussion about a novel; offer prep classes; and much more

Polycom Products for Distance Learning

Polycom Management Applications – Polycom management applications provide powerful, centralized functionality to expand collaboration throughout an educational environment that seamlessly integrates with existing IT infrastructures and directories.

Polycom Conferencing Infrastructure – Polycom conference platforms provides the industry’s most resilient, high demand educational environment to connect over distance using many types of media.

Polycom Recording and Streaming Solutions – Polycom Recording and Streaming solutions enable educators to create, manage, and deliver real-time or multimedia content for on-demand viewing.

Polycom Mobility Solutions – Administrators must implement disaster preparedness plans and provide safe and secure campuses while reducing their capital and operational costs.

Polycom Professional and Support Services – Offers expertise and assistance with assessment, planning, implementation, and support of new technology, at a fraction of the cost of additional, internal headcount.

Polycom Video Content Management Solutions – Polycom Video Content Management solutions enable educational institutions to create, manage, and deliver live and on-demand streaming video, including captured video conference sessions, for distance learning initiatives that students can view online from anywhere and at any time.