The Henson Group, Inc. (THG) offers a full-service Education Practice that provides customized IT solutions based on the latest Microsoft technologies. This practice consists of expert consultants who each have more than 10 years of industry experience applicable to overcoming the challenges and obstacles that face educational institutions.

THG’s APPROACH
THG understands that the management, delivery, and administration of educational services, on all levels, can greatly benefit from the integration and automation offered by information technology.

While many consultancies do not pursue accounts in the Education industry for a variety of logistical, financial, and cultural barriers, THG has focused on education since the company’s inception in 2000. This approach has propelled THG to its position as a leading education consultancy focused on delivering Microsoft solutions to institutions.

Today, applying Best Practices and enterprise technology principles proven successful in a wide range of highly competitive industries, THG offers IT solutions benefiting a broad range of institutions and organization.

THG’S SERVICES
THG’s customized Microsoft solutions for education provide schools, colleges and universities with resources to make the most of technology; connecting people, removing limitations, and creating opportunities for 21st-century learners to realize their potential.

To get more comprehensive understanding of what THG provides in the Education sector, consider these descriptions of services offered and delivered by THG’s Education Practice:

Accountability and Assessment
Implementing Microsoft Class Server, THG makes it easier for school districts to create, deliver, and grade standards-aligned tests and lessons over the Web. This assists teachers in tracking and analyzing student achievement against local curriculum standards, meeting the No Child Left Behind challenge. Such solutions also improve the two core management functions of accountability and assessment, which THG consider virtually mission-critical.

By providing the right information to the right people when it counts the most, accountability and assessment tools based on Microsoft technology enable educators and administrators to make more well-informed decisions that improve the overall learning process and allow schools and teachers to make course changes based on statistical data.

eLearning
Deploying Microsoft’s Office Student and Teacher Edition, THG assists schools and students in sharing information in real-time. Essentially, THG’s custom Office 2003 solutions help teachers to provide course information and multi-media to students in and out of the classroom.

This area of eLearning holds incredible potential for all educational enterprises, both as a vehicle for primary interaction, as well as a mode for secondary collaboration. Creating solutions that facilitate greater online student-teacher collaboration, establishing more robust multi-media learning tools, and providing richer assessment capabilities for administrators, THG enables institutions to leverage technology in many ways.

Every year, THG deploys sophisticated eLearning solutions within schools, colleges and universities. Each of these solutions solves unique educational issues, such as online exams and enrollment, and overcomes technical challenges, such as distance learning.

Application Integration and Migration Services
Educational institutions are, essentially, businesses. As such, they need to maximize existing IT assets. At the same time, they are often held to higher standards than privately held corporations, may not be able to implement massive technology overhauls no matter how needed, and basically need to justify every IT dollar spent to multiple sources.

Navigating these demands, THG’s consultants design solutions that enable institutions to leverage existing technology by integrating existing applications and systems resulting in greater productivity. Additionally, THG’s proven Proprietary Project Framework arms the administrator with sound financials and data for justifying expenditures and demonstrating significant returns on IT investments.

Mobile Learning Solutions
Education administrators and teachers are increasingly mobile to meet a variety of needs that come with servicing a diverse, demanding clientele spread across a large geographic area. THG's Mobile Learning Solutions provide them with the tools to exchange and capture ideas spontaneously and strengthen the flow of information across the entire organization, whether this means local, regional, or national capabilities. These solutions encompass the implementation of wireless networks, Tablet PCs with digital ink, and the mobile based Pocket-PC and WinCE devices.