Wi-Fi® in education

Wi-Fi® provides the foundation for the future of educational innovation

Education is evolving. Elementary and high schools, universities, professional development centers, and corporate
training facilities depend upon technology to administer and deliver educational programming. Wi-Fi is the
communication technology that has enabled schools to boost
administrative processes, improve efficiencies, and keep teachers
and students connected. Wi-Fi affordability and accessibility have
proven to be the underlying mechanism to opening up new
opportunities for dynamic, untethered learning, extending the
education environment beyond the classroom, and enabling
continued digital transformation in education.

Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6™ brings a new era of secure

connectivity to education
The benefits that Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6™ with Wi-Fi CERTIFIED WPA3™ security can bring to educational spaces enables
vast connectivity improvements that can help enhance campus life and educational outcomes. Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6
delivers faster data rates, increased capacity, high performance in dense environments, and better device power
efficiency. This enables Wi-Fi to provide powerful benefits to both students and administrators that can transform
the education experience—with the very latest in Wi-Fi security.
Educational institutions that upgrade their networks to Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 can capitalize on:
• Streamlined administration: seamless cross-campus communication; process modernization; technology
onboarding; staffing and facilities management
• Enhanced education: customized, collaborative synchronous and asynchronous learning; digital resource
access; increased engagement through dynamic learning, gamification, and augmented or virtual reality (AR/VR)
• Smarter campuses: ubiquitous connectivity for students and visitors; enhanced safety and security; data
analytics
In keeping with the more than twenty-year tradition, Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 infrastructure is compatible with legacy Wi-Fi
devices, making it a sensible choice for environments with a wide variety of device types. Underpinned by its
inherent strengths, Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 provides the critical foundation for great educational experiences and future
progress in digital transformation.

Providing more to students and administrators

Schools worldwide are translating their traditional instruction model to online learning—whether in a classroom
environment or remote. More recently, Wi-Fi proved to be a lifeline to schools forced to close physical locations as
the coronavirus pandemic began, but the benefits Wi-Fi brings go beyond connectivity and online coursework.
Some examples of how Wi-Fi can benefit a variety of educational institutions in many ways include:
• Elementary and middle school: a first-grade teacher can conduct class outside with use of connected
netbooks, and allow students to attend class remotely
• High school: teens can apply for colleges while meeting with a guidance counselor; immersive AR/VR can help
students learn to dissect specimens in biology class or build integrated circuits for computer science courses
• University: students feel safe with smart building access control and connected via campus-wide Wi-Fi
networks; professors can automatically send notes and assignments directly from their smart whiteboard to
student devices
• Trade schools: dental hygienists can learn to identify many mouth and gum diseases through video coursework
and AR/VR before working on a client
• Corporate training: a person in a risk management program can use virtual walkthroughs to learn what to look
for when investigating a claim; upon course completion the trainer can automatically send a completion
certificate to the employer
In addition to increasing engagement and making operations easier for students and staff, using Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6
networks to create a smarter campus may cut costs and improve student retention.

Wi-Fi CERTIFIED: Technology to trust

Since 2000, Wi-Fi Alliance has been driving the adoption and evolution of Wi-Fi through the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED
program. The Wi-Fi CERTIFIED logo designates products with proven interoperability, backward compatibility, and
the highest industry-standard security protections in place. Wi-Fi CERTIFIED devices can communicate with previous
and future generations of Wi-Fi technologies, enabling homes installed with Wi-Fi CERTIFIED networking devices to
provide a seamless, interoperable experience with a multitude of other Wi-Fi devices brought into the home for
years to come.

Learn more: www.wi-fi.org/education

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