IBM today announced a $27.9 million Smarter Education project in Georgia.

With this new project, IBM expands its longstanding partnership with GCPS and helps implement the eCLASS vision across the district.

The $27.9 million Smarter Education project with Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS), the largest school system in Georgia aims to aims to change the way teachers teach and students learn.

Connectikpeople has observed that, if fully implemented, eCLASS will bring together curriculum and instructional resources, assessment, professional development, student

information, and grading functions in one place, making it easier for teachers to access tools that will help them improve student learning and outcomes.

As the chief systems integrator, IBM will oversee implementation of eCLASS into the existing GCPS technology infrastructure. 

Located in the metro Atlanta area and serving close to 168,000 students in 132 educational facilities, GCPS has undergone enormous change over the past few decades, transforming from a rural school system to a large urban school district. Considered to be one of the largest and most significant transformational efforts in GCPS history, the digital Content, Learning, Assessment, and Support System (eCLASS) initiative aims to provide a ‘flexible classroom’ that will allow teachers to target instruction to accommodate student preferences, and provide learning both inside and outside of the classroom, with the goal of making education more engaging for every student. The initiative will include a 1:1 ratio of device per student, primarily through the use of student-owned devices.

IBM will oversee the integration of mobile technology into the classrooms in a device agnostic way, driving creativity and flexibility in both learning and teaching.