In today’s fast-paced world, classroom technology needs to appeal to tech-savvy digital natives with diverse learning styles. Our education consulting team can work with you to get a thorough understanding of your school’s specific needs. Then we can design and implement classroom technologies that help get your students excited about learning.

Our advanced classroom collaboration solutions include Visual Communication Services that help with distance learning — providing video access to teachers in remote areas as well as international students. We can also seamlessly integrate new classroom technologies with the solutions you already have in place. If you’re looking to implement one to one computing throughout your school district, our team can help to integrate ChromebooksTM, iPads® or other devices within your current infrastructure.

In addition, you can instantly boost collaboration and improve classroom management with Ricoh interactive whiteboards (IWB) — also known as interactive flat panel displays (IFPD):

• Invite guest speakers to class via video.
• Enable students to connect one to one computing devices directly to the boards to stream videos, solve problems and more.
• Give teachers the ability to manage the IFPDs from smart devices while walking around the classroom — simplifying classroom management.
• Use the Windows® 10-based controller to enhance project management and collaboration by using preferred apps like Microsoft® Office 365TM.

With so much to learn to prepare for higher education and the workforce, and so little time during each school day, students and teachers need to stay as productive as possible. With our IT Services for Education, we can support and maintain your IT infrastructure to help reduce desktop, printer and network downtime — minimizing interruptions to teacher and student workflows.

We can also help you take advantage of the proliferation of mobile devices by giving teachers and students remote access to applications and learning platforms from laptops, tablets and smartphones with our Cloud & IT Services. The cloud let's you empower students by letting them learn in ways that complement how they like to work, such as:

• Uploading homework assignments from personal smartphones
• Reading assigned texts on tablets while in route to or from school
• Typing up papers on personal Macs or PCs

The flexibility of our cloud services can also help you find additional ways to improve the learning experience — including using Google Classroom^TM to make managing assignments easier for teachers, providing remote access to Microsoft® SharePoint® to enable real-time digital collaboration, and more.

With cloud access to a variety of software programs and platforms from both school-provided and personal devices, there are many possibilities for classroom innovations. This digital access provides students with the extra benefit of learning new technologies to help prepare them for future jobs while simultaneously learning the core curriculum.

Ricoh can also help you save money by supporting open educational resources (OER) that improve teaching, learning, assessing and researching processes. We can also provide classroom technology that utilizes Khan Academy and other free educational resources that help with core curriculum learning — providing digital natives with the high-tech learning environments they’ve come to expect:

• Enable teachers to show Khan Academy videos on Ricoh IFPDs to increase student engagement.
• Let students work on OER Commons practice exercises on their one to one computing devices during class.
• Give students the ability to work in groups on standards-aligned content in digital learning environments.

Our education consulting team can help design classrooms of the future and meeting rooms for faculty and staff that feature monitors on the walls, iPads® that are wirelessly connected to wall monitors, separated collaboration spaces that are powered by technology for group projects, and so much more.