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This year’s sponsors include:
Anystream is the world’s leading supplier of digital media workflow automation software. Their newest product, Apreso Classroom, is an easy and affordable solution for automatically capturing lectures and publishing them online for review by students. Apreso Classroom starts and stops automatically based on course schedules. It then assembles the instructor’s remarks, video, and any projected visuals into a rich media presentation and publishes it to any web location for students to review in a web browser. Apreso Classroom’s hands-off automation makes it the first system practical and affordable enough to make on-demand availability of recorded lectures commonplace.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning desktop and notebook computers, OS X operating system, and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital music revolution with its iPod portable music players and iTunes online music store.
Blackboard Inc. was founded to transform the internet into a powerful environment for the educational experience. The company offers a suite of enterprise software products and services that power a total “e-Education Infrastructure” for schools, colleges, universities, and other education providers. Blackboard solutions deliver the promise of the internet for online teaching and learning, campus communities, auxiliary services, and integration of web-enabled student services and back-office systems.
Centra provides effective eLearning and online collaboration solutions for university graduate programs, university undergraduate programs, and K-12 programs. With Centra’s virtual classes and content management capabilities, you can use the internet to offer highly interactive, online classes and degree programs that draw new students — such as doctors, business executives, and remote students — who aren’t able to attend classes on campus due to professional or geographical constraints. Centra 7 and the easy-to-use Centra Symposium™ and eMeeting interface have a broad array of features that make live, group-oriented learning effective on the web.
eCollege [Nasdaq: ECLG] is a leading provider of value-added information services to the post-secondary and K-12 education industries. The company’s eLearning Division designs, builds, and supports some of the most successful, fully online degree, certificate/diploma, and professional development programs in the country. The company’s Enrollment Division, Datamark, Inc., helps institutions build new enrollments and increase student retention. Customers include publicly traded for-profit institutions, community colleges, public and private universities, school districts, and state departments of education. eCollege was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Denver. Datamark was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City.
Elluminate is a leading provider of live web conferencing and eLearning solutions for the real-time organization. Serving corporate and academic sectors, the company ensures the best user experience through superior quality voice-over-internet-protocol (VOIP) communications that are in-sync regardless of connection speed. Broad cross-platform support and advanced, yet easy-to-use, moderator tools support both PC and MAC operating systems. Elluminate’s products create a rich, collaborative environment for live remote training and online meetings while delivering lower upfront costs and strong ROI.
Since 1985, MCNC has developed and operated the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) in partnership with the University of North Carolina 16-campus system. NCREN is one of the nation’s premier statewide research networks serving all North Carolina public universities and many private universities and colleges with internet, video, audio, and data network services. Today, in partnership with universities, MCNC is building upon the foundation of NCREN to deploy one of the nation’s first statewide grid technology testbeds. As an enhanced service of NCREN, a statewide grid will provide researchers with remote, transparent, and secure access to resources anywhere on the statewide network, including computers, storage, software, and scientific equipment. The private, nonprofit MCNC was established by state government in 1980 to be a catalyst for innovation and job creation throughout North Carolina.
SAS is the world’s largest privately held software company, with nearly 40,000 education, government, and business customer sites worldwide. The SAS Education Practice is dedicated to creating a culture of leadership, authenticity, and accountability in education by providing teachers, administrators, policymakers, students, parents, and support staff with the best tools for aligning resources with evidence-based outcomes. SAS’s mission is to supply their clients and users with the information they need to make the best decisions for more effective and efficient learning throughout the education life cycle. SAS serves educators by delivering software solutions, strategic services, and academic programs designed to enhance teaching, learning, administration, and research.
WebCT is the world’s leading provider of e-learning systems for higher education institutions. WebCT provides highly flexible e-learning systems that empower institutions to achieve their unique objectives. WebCT Campus Edition is a market-leading Course Management System used by institutions around the world for course development and delivery. WebCT Vista, the industry’s first Academic Enterprise System, uniquely supports the mission-critical needs of enterprise e-learning deployments. WebCT Campus Edition customers can also extend their environment with enterprise e-learning functionality by adding on WebCT Vista modules, including the Learning Object Manager, Community Manager, PowerLinks Kit for software development, and PowerSight Kit for reporting. |
