Eficode and AWS Help University of Turku Scale to Improve Sustainability

With new technologies helping student learning, White Rose Education wanted its IT to have the scalability and performance to meet growing opportunities in the market. Working with AWS Partner CirrusHQ, White Rose Education modernized its technology platform by going serverless. As a result, the organization lowered its costs by 70 percent, saw a 60 percent performance boost, and reduced time to market—launching its White Rose Infinity online resource 100 percent faster.

The University of Sheffield in the UK needed to update an aging on-premises IT system used to manage student records and activities. The university decided to migrate to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and turned to AWS Partner Perform Partners to build a new environment and help it move to the cloud.

After developing and testing a modernized cloud environment, the university and Perform Partners completed the migration over a long holiday weekend, enabling the new cloud infrastructure to be up and running by the following Monday morning. The benefits were immediately clear: faster processes, automated data updates, and improved recovery capabilities in the event of a disaster. Working together, the university and Perform Partners continue to refine the new system and take advantage of more AWS capabilities.

Penn State University built a learning analytics tool using data from its learning management system (LMS), Canvas—developed by AWS Partner Instructure—to provide real-time alerts about student engagement in a course. The tool, named Course Insights, uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to process nearly 2 TB of raw learning activity data every day. The data is made available through Course Insights as a learning tools interoperability (LTI) feature embedded directly in Canvas. It helps instructors track student engagement, provide differentiated student care, and understand how they might improve course delivery and learning outcomes.

Supaja—a South Korea–based online tutoring platform—uses the AWS Partner Pagecall audio, video, and whiteboard solution to deliver virtual learning to students in 33 countries. Pagecall, which runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) services including Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, Amazon S3, and Amazon DynamoDB, helps Supaja deliver reliable, real-time learning while growing its business to 2 billion KRW in revenue.