workplace How an adaptive digital workplace will bring clarity to the education sector adaptive digital Teachers can lose time having to switch between apps or find documents on systems or working through an outdated intranet. But adopting an adaptive digital workplace can alleviate these problems. By Erik Nicolai, co-founder and CEO, Workspace 365 Teaching and imparting knowledge is unquestionably a difficult profession. It doesn’t need to be made any harder by technology that works against the teacher or lecturer at the front of the classroom rather than with them – but this is exactly what is happening.
Teachers are losing up to an hour of their working day as they switch between apps, frequently having to sign into anywhere up to 30 of them individually every day. Switching between apps is a huge frustration for teachers, as different parts of different classes and lectures are stored in different, disparate parts of their school,
college or university’s IT networks. There are too many places where they may need to look to find documents they have saved or files that are essential to the teaching and learning experience. Then there’s the issue of collaboration, which is vital in the classroom. While most educational institutions will almost certainly have an intranet as a way of sharing information, a significant proportion of teachers have given up on them and
Erik Nicolai co-founder and CEO Workspace 365
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