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Building hybrid learning environments for institutions
Your academy, college or university operates in a hybrid learning environment. Students expect smooth, personalized digital interactions at every step of their learning journey. A seamless digital experience not only supports their academic passions, but also equips them for lifelong learning, critical thinking and career success. A Digital Experience Platform (DXP) like Dropsolid Experience Platform helps higher education institutions to meet these expectations, thanks to an improved digital presence and operational efficiency.
What is a Digital Experience Platform for higher education?
A Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is the foundation that forward-thinking higher education institutions use to communicate with their staff, students and other stakeholders across a wide range of digital touchpoints. It integrates all of your existing digital tools and software onto a single platform, allowing your teams to create more personalized and efficient content and learning experiences. Dropsolid Experience Platform is the open DXP that helps you build, deploy and grow your digital experience. Based on open-source technology, it fits in perfectly with an open learning philosophy founded on collaboration.
Why digital experiences matter to learning institutions
Digital experiences are more critical than ever for higher education institutions, as they transform how staff and students interact with their organization. From online outreach to fund-raising and marketing to hybrid learning: a personalized digital journey builds stronger connections with institutions and their brand. Using centralized content management and easy integrations with specialized learning tools and platforms, learning institutions can manage their content more efficiently across local and international campuses. At the same time, integrating different touchpoints and software helps IT teams to be more cost-effective and deliver a continuously improving digital experience to all stakeholders.
Digital experience advantages for higher education
Enhanced collaboration
Pave the way for better collaboration by bridging the gap between academic departments, marketing and IT teams. This integrated approach streamlines content management and distribution, reducing the workload on your institution’s staff and boosting overall efficiency.
Data-driven decision-making
Combine data on browsing and content interactions to deliver more tailored content and communications for students, staff and external visitors. This personalized approach helps you to increase student engagement, improve recruitment efforts and strengthen relationships with alumni.
Customer success story: Ghent University
A centralized Digital Experience Platform helps educational institutions to deliver a better browsing and learning experience to all stakeholders, including existing and potential students. Smart IT and marketing teams rely on a DXP to make their university stand out amongst the competition.
UGent: building a centralized platform for all university websites
Ghent University, or UGent for short, is one of Europe’s top universities. Based in Belgium, it is home to countless research groups and departments, with dozens of subsites, online learning environments and other complex digital infrastructure. Our Dropsolid consultants partnered with their IT team to move to a centrally managed Drupal platform, delivering a seamless digital experience.
Solution
The implementation of Dropsolid Experience Platform, which enables the university’s IT team to run all subsites on a single platform. User roles and permissions are managed through the existing Microsoft Azure environment, thanks to clever integrations.
Lessons from the success of Ghent University
The Dropsolid DXP serves as the foundation for all the university’s websites, saving the IT and marketing teams precious time. Our Dropsolid consultants also assisted UGent’s team in migrating their existing tools and assets. With the ongoing support from one of our dedicated Drupal consultants, the university continues to further optimize its existing styleguide, implement technical enhancements and learn more about best practices for its Drupal ecosystem.
Calculate the ROI on your digital experience for your academic institution
We get it: you want to ensure maximum return on investment for all of your digital projects. An integrated, centrally managed and scalable digital experience ecosystem allows your teams to collaborate efficiently and provides support for new features and tools when they become available. Using our free ROI calculator for digital experiences, it only takes five minutes to find out the potential ROI for your college, university or academy.
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