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This year’s sponsors include:
Adobe is dedicated to helping the education community improve teaching and learning through the integration of technology into the classroom and the simplification of administrative tasks on campus. To help educators achieve these goals, Adobe provides a wealth of tools and resources.
Apreso Classroom is the first fully automated lecture capture and web publishing system. With Apreso Classroom, instructors simply walk into the classroom and teach. The system starts and stops automatically, creating a web-based version of the classroom experience that is instantly available for students to review on demand. Apreso Classroom’s enterprise-class architecture integrates directly with Blackboard and permits hands-free, automated posting of rich media lecture content to Blackboard courses. Clients like Temple, SUNY Buffalo, and NYU’s Stern School use Apreso Classroom to deliver the benefits of online lectures without taxing their staff with manual steps. This makes Apreso Classroom the only lecture capture system affordable and practical enough for a complete campus-wide deployment.
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.
authorGEN Technologies provides easy-to-use software tools and services, enabling you to communicate more effectively over the internet. Their products and services help you to create audio-video-based presentations that can be presented live or asynchronously as well as a hosting service that streams your audio-video-based content. Their customers create virtual classrooms without walls, without limits, using their products and services. Bridge the gap between you and your students with authorGEN Technologies. AuthorGEN is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Chandighar, India.
Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) is a leading provider of enterprise software applications and related services to the education industry. Founded in 1997, Blackboard enables educational innovations everywhere by connecting people and technology. With two product suites, the Blackboard Academic Suite and the Blackboard Commerce Suite™, Blackboard is used by millions of people at academic institutions around the globe, including colleges, universities, K-12 schools, and other education providers, as well as textbook publishers and student-focused merchants that serve education providers and their students. Blackboard is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in North America, Europe and Asia.
Centra provides effective e-learning 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.
HarvestRoad develops software for e-Learning and e-Training in education, government, defense, and enterprise. Its learning object repository, HarvestRoad Hive® has been awarded IMS Conformance and is the only LOR to receive MiCTA “Endorsed Supplier” status. HarvestRoad is based in Perth, Australia, with offices in Atlanta; Ottawa; Mexico City; London; Lyon, France; Sydney; and Melbourne. HarvestRoad is a publicly listed company.
Horizon Wimba develops collaborative software applications addressing the diverse needs of the emerging online education market. Its software enables institutions to take advantage of the multitude of advances in the Internet and Internet-based technologies while also enhancing their course management systems. The company’s virtual classroom solution enables educators to teach and meet live online, its vocal collaboration technologies add oral content directly into course content, web pages, and assessments, and its content authoring software allows users to quickly and easily convert Microsoft Word documents into web pages. With simplicity and power, Horizon Wimba adds new dimensions to online, accessible education, enriching the learning experience for both students and instructors.
MCNC, a nonprofit organization founded in 1980 to be a catalyst for technology-based economic development throughout North Carolina, leverages economies of scale to deliver advanced networking services to all public universities, many private universities and colleges, state government, and other nonprofit institutions through the statewide North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). NCREN, founded in 1985, is a partnership with the University of North Carolina’s 16 campuses and state government. NCREN was one of the first, and recognized today as one of the most advanced, statewide networks in the country. It provides high-speed internet, video, audio, and data center services in addition to access to national research networks, including Internet2 and National LamdaRail. The services support multiple activities at each campus, including research, high-performance computing, distance learning, classroom education, administrative services, and extension services. Through NCREN, MCNC supports the educational and research mission of North Carolina universities and fosters innovation and economic growth for the state of North Carolina. NCREN is the backbone for advanced communications, computing, applications, and storage—complementing and extending the capabilities of individual institutions and state agencies.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
Interested in exploring some of the fastest growing open source e-learning solutions for your campus%3f Not interested in allocating considerable IT resources at this time%3f Optimized Learning, Inc. (OLi) can help. Optimized Learning is a North Carolina-based company that has established a team of open source leaders to create pilot programs throughout the country. OLi hosts the application in our Tier One Data Center thus eliminating the significant up-front hardware costs. Their client list includes the UNC TLT Collaborative, Foothill College, UCSC New Teacher Center, and Thomson Publishing. See for yourself how easy it is to become a part of the open source community! OLi is proud to host the Academus Open Campus initiative from Unicon.
SAS is the world’s largest privately held software company, with nearly 40,000 education, government, and corporate customer sites worldwide. The SAS Education and Medical 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’ mission is to supply our 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.
SkillSoft is a leading provider of enterprise e-learning, with learning resources targeted to staff, faculty, students, and IT professionals within education. SkillSoft’s multimodal learning solutions support and enhance the speed and effectiveness of formal and informal learning processes and integrate SkillSoft’s in-depth courseware, Referenceware®, learning management technology, and support services.
Founded in 1991, Sonic Foundry (NASDAQ: SOFO) is a technology leader in the emerging rich media communications marketplace, providing enterprise solutions and services that link an information-driven world. Sonic Foundry is changing the way organizations communicate via the web and how people around the globe receive vital information needed for work, professional advancement, safety, and education. The company’s integrated webcasting and web presentation solutions are trusted by Fortune 500 companies, education institutions, and government agencies for a variety of critical communication needs. Sonic Foundry is based in Madison, Wisconsin.
A singular vision—“The Network Is the Computer”—guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world’s most important markets. Sun’s philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the web.
Unicon, Inc. is the leading independent provider of enterprise portal, collaboration, learning, and integration technology for higher education institutions. The company is the developer of the Academus Enterprise Portal and Web Content Management Solution. Unicon solutions are based on open source technology to increase productivity while reducing costs. Unicon is a Sakai Commercial Affiliate.
WebCT is the world’s leading provider of e-learning systems for educational institutions. WebCT’s e-learning systems are built to accommodate institutions across the spectrum — whether they have just gotten started with e-learning or already have enterprise deployments. Institutions around the world are expanding the boundaries of teaching and learning with WebCT. |
Last Modified March 27, 2006
