PA Distance Learning Charter School partners with Google enterprise partner Cloudcast Education

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Wexford, PA (PittsburghNewsWire.com) — PA Distance Learning Charter School and Google enterprise partner Cloudcast Education announced today that they have entered into a partnership to deploy a next-generation online learning platform that will revolutionize the delivery of online instruction.  Cloudcast’s tools will take PA Distance Learning’s award-winning program to new heights, further enabling individualized learning with practical parent involvement.

As part of the partnership, Cloudcast Education will help PA Distance Learning Charter School transform Google Apps for Education into a truly synchronous, one-to-one learning environment enabling individualized instruction in ways not possible with costly on-premise software solutions used traditionally by schools.

“Cloudcast Education’s customized deployment of Google Apps for Education includes not only the powerful messaging, productivity and collaboration tools that come standard with Google Apps, but it also includes an integrated student information system, learning management system and a complete suite of common-core curriculum that is hosted and backed up over Google’s industry-leading data center infrastructure”, said PA Distance Learning Charter School CEO Patricia Rossetti”.  “We’re excited to let Cloudcast Education do what it does best — provide us with innovative technology, so we can do what we do best — educate our students.”

Cloudcast helps schools leverage the power of Google Apps to build highly customized communication and collaboration systems that automate and streamline virtually every aspect of school operations.  “Before joining Cloudcast Education, I spent the last five years as the Executive Director of PA Cyber trying to cobble together numerous disparate software packages to create a digitally interconnected learning environment,” said Cloudcast Education CEO Andrew Oberg.  “What I learned is that when you assemble disparate systems, you end up with disparate data, multiple login credentials, and huge investments in I.T. equipment and support costs.  Cloudcast and Google engineers have developed what I have been trying to accomplish all along–a unified, cloud-based school management system that enables individualized, data-driven instruction.  As such, I have no doubt that PA Distance Learning Charter School will set the bar for online learning excellence.”

About PA Distance Learning Charter School:
PA Distance Learning Charter School is a K-12 tuition-free public cyber charter school headquartered in Wexford, PA (www.padistance.org). For the past 10 years, PA Distance Learning has served families across Pennsylvania.  All PA Distance Learning teachers are Highly Qualified by the PA Department of Education and use an individualized student-centered, teacher-driven instructional model that meets or exceeds academic standards. In order to provide students with a unique and rewarding learning experience that propels beyond the limitations of traditional schooling, PA Distance Learning combines modern technology, compassionate teachers and an engaging curriculum for learning without limits. For more information, visit www.padistance.org

About Cloudcast Education:
Cloudcast Education is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cloudcast, LLC. (www.cloudcastcomputing.com)  As a Google Enterprise Partner, Cloudcast is the exclusive distributor and systems integrator of Google products and services to government agencies and public schools in the state of Pennsylvania.  Cloudcast Education is dedicated to helping schools leverage the power of Google Apps and Chromebooks to build highly customized communication and collaboration systems that automate and streamline virtually every aspect of school operation. Cloudcast is headquartered in the Pittsburgh Area with offices in Canonsburg, Belle Vernon, New Stanton, Greensburg, and data center facilities in Dulles, Virginia and Goose Creek, South Carolina.  For more information, visit www.cloudcastcomputing.com

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