END USER INSIGHT
Riaan Vlok, Head of IT at Curro Holdings
CURRO SCHOOLS CONTINUE
TO PUT LEARNERS AT
HEART OF EDUCATION
The harsh reality of Digital
Transformation means
companies and organisations
will be left behind if they do
not conform and adapt their
technology offerings. Curro
realised it needed to bring its
curriculum to life, digitally.
Riaan Vlok, Head of IT at
Curro Holdings, tells us how
its virtualised data centre
now helps the institution to
leverage the cloud alongside
its education mediums.
Future educators are today grappling
with how to deliver education
solutions that support the changing
demands of learners. Leveraging the
power of technology, the independent
school group, Curro Holdings, has
partnered with VMware to transform its
technology infrastructure, enabling it to
deliver a truly digital education experience
across geographies, endpoints, learners,
parents and educators.
Established in 1998, Curro is South
Africa’s largest independent education
provider, with over 178 schools across 70
sites. It develops, acquires and manages
independent schools for learners from
three months to Grade 12 and seeks
to empower every person with the
opportunity to achieve their potential as
individuals and members of society.
Creating future-based
education solutions
According to Riaan Vlok, Head of IT
at Curro Holdings, the real test on
educators is using technology to bring
the curriculum to life in a digitally-centred
world. Curro pioneered the use of digital
textbooks or ‘ink behind glass’ in South
Africa early on.
The Digital Transformation journey that
Curro embraced now requires a media
and content-rich educational experience
that teachers, learners and parents are
now used to in other areas of digital life.
The Curro infrastructure had to adapt
to this requirement where Augmented
Reality, asynchronous and synchronous
learning blend seamlessly with the
physical classrooms.
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