Wiebe Wins IBM Faculty Award
Dr. Eric Wiebe, Senior Research Fellow at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation and associate professor of Math, Science and Technology Education was given a $15,000 Faculty Award gift from IBM to support his work researching how cloud computing technologies can be used to further K-12 education in North Carolina and nationally.
This funding will help extend the current work being conducted with virtualization and cloud computing in education, specifically Desktop as a Service (DaaS) via the Virtual Computer Lab (VCL) technologies developed at NC State University. The work will build on a pilot in Pitt County schools looking at how implementation in a K-12 school system differs from either four-year or two-year colleges. Combined with other state and federal funding, the project will expand to additional school systems with a specific focus on how DaaS can help support high school mathematics courses.
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