Center for Digital Education Issue Brief: Real Learning, Virtual Desktops

Desktop virtualization is an approach that addresses many of the challenges campus leaders face today, including BYOD. Many desktop virtualization solutions are efficient and flexible to administer, and can scale to meet changing needs. Higher education institutions are already recognizing desktop virtualization as a viable solution — 60 percent of respondents to the Center for Digital Education’s 2011 Digital Community Colleges Survey have desktop virtualization in place. Desktop virtualization also earns high marks in higher education for efficient energy usage, low maintenance costs and reliability compared with traditional systems — all benefits that free up resources for the educational mission.