Education & Learning

With our unique, 25+ year focused expertise in the areas of education, technology, and management, Kendall Design Group provides assistance with planning, design, oversight, and implementation services to support technology initiatives within educational institutions and systems.

Our clients include universities, colleges, K-12, corporate and government education centers, and schools who want to positively affect the education delivery. We have worked throughout the USA and abroad with the most forward-thinking institutional leaders implementing technologies that make a constructive impact on learning.  We have made it our goal to work with people who want to make a quantifiable improvement and lead the academe into the future.

The Kendall Design Group philosophy is to implement technology solutions that enhance the academic mission by focusing on the student learning process, the pedagogy, and the goals of the organization. Our team works together with the academic community and technology support providers to answer the most important question of all: how will this new technology help the student to better learn the content, and function properly within the context of the institution?

Today's academic programs accommodate increasingly sophisticated students, staff, and faculty with ever-expanding information and communications requirements. The education community has been a leader in expanding the ability to communicate and exchange ideas using many varied approaches.  The customization of the learning experience to the individual needs of the student is our specialty.  We implemented the first Mediated Classroom for a large public academic - research university in 1984, their first PC-based distance education Teaching Theater in 1986, the first interactive skills lab in 1999, and the first Immersion Classroom for a fast growing Midwestern university in 1999.  From the mid 1980's to today, we have designed and executed numerous ground-breaking learning environments around the world.

We do not "repackage" the learning experience but assist our clients to "reinvent" it through a well-conceived, aggregated technology solution including hardware, applications, infrastructure, management, and support.  It is always in the context of the institutions vision for the future.

Kendall Design Group has the unique blend of ability, resources, and experience to support those who must apply technologies to the academic community of the future.

Healthcare & Wellness

With our unique expertise in the areas of medical, education, technology, and management, Kendall Design Group provides services to assist with planning, design, oversight, implementation and support for technology initiatives within healthcare institutions and systems.

Our clients include academic medical centers, hospitals, universities, clinics, pharmaceutical, corporate, and government healthcare related institutions. We have worked throughout the USA and abroad.

The Kendall Design Group philosophy is to implement technology solutions that enhance the mission by focusing on the process and desired outcomes. Our team works together with the healthcare community and technology support providers to answer the most important question of all: how will this new technology help the healthcare community to improve outcomes, lower costs, and enhance patient care?

Today's healthcare community accommodates increasingly sophisticated patients, staff, and clinicians who have ever-expanding information and communications requirements. The community has been a leader in expanding the ability to communicate and exchange ideas using many varied technologies.  This customization of the health experience to the needs of the patient and doctor is our specialty.  From the mid 1980's to today, we have designed and executed numerous ground-breaking medical environments around the world.  Our goal is to deliver a "High Tech and High Touch" experience in the new managed-care reality.  

We do not "repackage" the health experience but assist our clients to "reinvent" it through a well-conceived and aggregated technology solution including hardware, applications, infrastructure, management and support.  This is always in the context of the institutions vision for the future.

Kendall Design Group has the unique blend of ability, resources, and experience to support those who must apply technologies to the health-related community of the future.

Health, Safety & Welfare - New Security Solutions

School shooters, date rape, binge drinking, burglary, shoplifting, HIPAA, FERPA, network hacking, identity theft, cyber crime, bullying, etc.

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Faced with critical security related issues, like the horrifying school shootings and the theft of sensitive data, institutional managers and administrators are looking for improved ways of enhancing their campus security. Technology and management issues are utilizing an increasingly converged approach to safety, security and information.   The teaming of the physical security/police and IT groups is a daunting task.  Combining security tools on campus networks, uniting security and data system goals, effectual and regular training regiments, while learning to expand safety within limited health, safety, and welfare budgets in an efficient and effective way are fast becoming "must dos".

The convergence of cyberspace and physical security is only a problem until the campus teams can and will work together.  Only when the proper leadership and procedures are implemented can an attack be preempted at its first signs, saving life, property and information. It takes a top-down management process that can lead to a new level of proactive emergency response.

Kendall Design Group now has the unique expertise in-house to assist in executing the right solution, the first time.   Our team works with the administration and the community to answer the most important question:  how will a new security initiative protect the lives, health, and personal data of the most precious resource of the institution...its people?

Kendall Design Group's principal, Jonathan Kendall, was the lead planner and designer for prominent projects such as:

1984 University of Maryland's (UMCP) first Mediated "Smart" Classroom

1986 UMCP's AT&T-sponsored Teaching Theater

1990 National Defense University's First Electronic Classrooms, Integrated Campus Networking & Teaching Simulation System
1992 UMCP's IBM-TQ sponsored Teaching Theater

1993 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Technology Infrastructure Master Plan

1994 Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services System (MIEMSS) First All-digital Statewide 911 Control Communications Center & SYSCOM Planning & Design

1996 UVA Darden Graduate School of Business Techno-Socratic Classrooms, Multi Media Production Center, Integrated Wired & Wireless Network Infrastructure, & Transition Management

1997 UMMS Baltimore Campus-wide Technology (Voice, Data, Video, Cabling) Analysis & Masterplan

1998 UCSF Stanford Health Care (USHC) Telemedicine Pilot Program Implementation

1999 CMU College of Health Professions Immersion Classrooms, Immersion Sim Center, Network Infrastructure & Faculty/Pedagogical Migration Services

2001 University of Maryland Medical Systems Operating Room (O.R.) of the Future Planning

2002 Postech University, Korea, Tae-Joon Park Digital Library Technology Planning

2004 MUSC College of Health Professions New Building with Immersion Classrooms & the O.R. of the Future Sim Lab

2008 GSU's Petit Science Education and Research Center with Interdisciplinary Nursing, Biology, Chemistry & the Neuroscience Institute

2011 New Cooper Medical School of Rowan University with Immersion Classrooms/Labs, Interactive Auditorium & Virtual Reality CAVE Sim Center