Managed Education Services

In today’s global marketplace, educational institutions face a myriad of challenges from growing online competition and student demand for career skills that continually changes as technology and the economy change—for example, demand for learning experiences based on interactive medias are rising almost exponentially as new technologies reshape the business world, while at the same time educators must appropriately grapple with the strain on their IT departments by offering these emerging technologies and immersive learning experience.

Despite this, to stay competitive, educators must also continually attract new students from various demographics and keep them engaged, while using existing infrastructures and resources. And to do so, colleges spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on recruiting, but often only 50 percent of students who enter a higher education course of study actually complete their programs. Retaining students for the entire educational program is vital in boosting revenue and graduation rates. Given the size of their recruitment investments, educational institutions must:

• Maximize student enrollment
• Minimize attrition
• Prepare students for successful careers in a changing economy

NIIT can help with all three of these goals through Managed Education Services solutions, a suite of education solutions and processes designed to deliver more learning while optimizing the business impact of (and control over) education investments, so administrators can focus on their core business.

Benefits of Managed Education Services

With Managed Education Services, education institutions can gain competitive advantage by outsourcing needs to NIIT; this frees institutions internal resources to concentrate on their core jobs. Our worldwide network of experts provides consistent learning delivery and global scalability, which we use to quickly and effectively provide education institutions with adjunct faculty members and new programs and online courses. We also make it easy to measure the results of our education solutions, to track their performance and business value and keep institutions aligned with their business goals.

Helping Students Engage and Excel for Improved Retention

Our Managed Education Services for higher education institutions include the following core services:

Immersive Learning Solutions based on course content and delivery—such as virtualization, and Web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies—to provide content-rich online learning options designed to engage students. Using graphics, animation, simulations, games, audio, and video, we create media-rich Computer-Based Education packages that engage learners in interactive learning experiences. This approach combines the effectiveness of multimedia with the advantages of anytime, anywhere learning.

These next-generation higher learning applications will prepare students for a job market based on emerging technologies for the retrieval, capture, and exchange of information.

• vLabs provides online access to high-fidelity labs and real IT equipment, so students can learn complex IT procedures hands-on. vLabs provide a turn-key, end-to-end solution for educators, delivering both self-study and classroom virtual learning models to a geographically diverse population. This solution features custom labs that include educators’ own content and images, as well as dedicated environments for specific user communities. Our extensive library offers current and highly effective Microsoft, Cisco, and Linux labs and training for operating systems, development tools, mail clients, and more.



• Our Gaming & Simulations include innovative approaches that incorporate gaming engines, simulations, animation, 3D rendering, avatars, and virtual worlds to provide students the background they need to enter the IT workforce, based on emerging market trends. To extend the features and benefits of virtualization, we also offer operational simulators of client equipment and learning simulations of client equipment. With these tools, educators can ensure globally consistent learning delivery, easier access to learning, and reduce the need for face-to-face training if needed.

Student Retention Services can assist student services teams in minimizing attrition using a variety of approaches can tangibly benefit online education programs. Components of the programs include:

• Adaptive Remediation that identifies at-risk students based on predefined behaviors;
  • Then goes a step further by undertaking a series of interventions. These interventions are designed to make the students actively participate and perform, thereby leading to their successful course completion.
  • A rigorous system comprised of continuous risk profiling, continuous diagnosis, and continuous intervention, developed for NIIT’s own campuses, that has been shown to reduce student attrition, increase learner satisfaction, and impact students’ success.


• Tutoring: a well designed on line tutoring program provides ongoing, real-time visibility into a students progress aiding in an institutions ability to provide individual attention as compared to traditional teaching methods.

Program Development delivers dynamic courses that offer consistency across locations, both on-ground and online. NIIT is a leader in the field, having developed over 300 online courses for key educational institutions around the world. NIIT can design, develop, and deliver instructor-led and online course material tailored to any educational institution. Read the Ohio University case study to learn how NIIT helped develop online bachelor’s degree completion programs, enriched course content with digital media, and increased consistency of content delivery.

Learning Technologies provides robust, reliable, and scalable frameworks for e-Learning and knowledge solutions, including web-based distance learning. NIIT’s Learning Technologies development team delivers custom solutions that work with existing IT infrastructures and include dedicated onsite resources. Learn more about NIIT’s innovative Learning Technologies by watching this video.

NIIT Understands Education Because We Are Educators

NIIT is not just a solution provider; we are a for-profit institution of post-secondary education in India and China, where we develop and use our own learning solutions every day and have done so for more than thirty years. Many education institutions trust NIIT’s experience in higher education, including Columbia, Harvard, EDMC, ITT Educational Services, Laureate, Ohio University, Johnson & Wales University, DeVry, Regis University and University System of Georgia.

The same expertise that has helped drive student success, reduce costs, and incorporate cutting-edge learning methodologies for our own campuses as well as those of our clients can be put to use in improving student retention, engagement, and performance within your institution.