This year’s sponsors include:
ALPHANUMERIC SYSTEMS, INC. is a leading provider of technology solutions in the Southeast. We are the only integrator in the Southeast that is both a Novell Platinum partner and a Microsoft Managed Gold Partner. Alphanumeric offers solutions in secure identity management, voice over IP, messaging and collaboration, virtualization, IT managed services, and configuration and deployment. Alphanumeric Systems specializes in the needs of the higher education community. We believe our experience delivering technology solutions to colleges and universities throughout the Carolinas gives us the skills and knowledge necessary to best meet your needs. For examples of how Alphanumeric and our strategic partners have been able to deliver best-of-breed solutions to our college and university clients, please see http://www.alphanumeric.com/.
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 store.
Shifting the Time and Place of Learning Spaces (formal presentation)
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. Millions of people use Blackboard every day 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, Australia, and Asia.
Blackboard Scholar: Social Networking Within Blackboard (formal presentation)
Blackboard Product Road Map (formal presentation)
CENTRA FROM SABA provides effective e-learning and online collaboration
solutions for:
- University Graduate Programs
- University Undergraduate Programs
- K-12 Programs
- Partners
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 Live from Saba's easy-to-use interface has a broad array of features that make live, group-oriented learning effective on the Web.
CRESTRON is the only manufacturer of end-to-end enterprise solutions connecting all of your meeting and instructional facilities throughout the building, across the campus, or around the world. For 35 years, Crestron has been the leading manufacturer of seamlessly integrated control systems, touch panels, switchers, amplifiers, and lighting systems for the most sophisticated rooms to the simplest classroom. Every room is connected on your network, then managed and controlled with Crestron's powerful, award-winning RoomView remote management software. New RoomView 7.0 simplifies and automates the administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting in both Web-based or PC-executable formats.
provides award-wining, best-in-class e-learning and web collaboration solutions that help academic institutions improve the learning experience. Elluminate enables schools to add live interaction to asynchronous distance learning programs and extend the boundaries of the traditional classroom. Designed specifically for educators, Elluminate's moderator-led, rich collaboration environment can duplicate any learning activity, from lectures and debates to small group discussions and presentations. Thousands of students and educators worldwide have experienced the Elluminate
difference-technology that empowers learning and deepens understanding. Elluminate is changing the way educators think about the learning process-across campus, throughout the nation, and around the globe.
HORIZON WIMBA develops web-based collaboration software for online distance education, language learning, and live interactive communications. 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; its content authoring software allows users to quickly and easily convert Microsoft Word documents into web pages; and its test-generation and homework management tools allow faculty to create test, quiz, and exam questions. With simplicity and power, Horizon Wimba adds new dimensions to online, accessible education, enriching the learning experience for both students and instructors.
Say Hello to Pronto! How Horizon Wimba Can Revolutionize (formal presentation)
The digital repository incorporated in
EQUELLA simplifies the process of discovering digital learning resources (DLRs) stored within your institution. You may not know what's out there, but our powerful search options will locate, classify, and retrieve your DLRs easily and effectively. The EQUELLA Copyright and Digital Rights Management functionality guarantees that owners are recognized for their contributions and encourages others to do the same. The EQUELLA Activity Assembler offers flexible content authoring and simplifies the assembly of DLRs. By discovering and classifying new resources and grouping these resources into learning subject matter, educators open up new learning possibilities and challenge traditional boundaries. EQUELLA incorporates new technology to enhance the power of DLRs. EQUELLA, the next generation of The Learning Edge Learning Content Management System, enables you to explore new boundaries, classify new objects, and enhance the teaching and learning experience for your institution.
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LEARNING OBJECTS brings social software to the learning environment. Our applications integrate blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other innovative functionality right into your Blackboard Learning System. Using the Campus Pack suite, instructors easily engage learners with assignments that foster collaboration and encourage reflection, making online learning a dynamic experience. More than 200 institutions worldwide use Learning Objects products.
Engaging Students with Social Learning Tools: Tales from the Classroom (formal presentation)
Since 1985, MCNC has developed and operated the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) in collaboration with the University of North Carolina's 16 campuses. The fiber-optic, private network is dedicated to research and education, providing a statewide network backbone to foster innovation. NCREN provides high-speed Internet, video, audio, and data network services for North Carolina public universities, Duke University, Wake Forest University, other private universities and community colleges, state government, and non profit institutions. NCREN also provides access to national research networks. MCNC, founded in 1980 to be a catalyst for technology-based economic development throughout North Carolina, is located in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park.
OPTIMIZED LEARNING INC. (OLi) assists and supports schools in every aspect of transitioning to open source tools. OLi enables schools of all sizes to experiment, get involved, and move towards a successful implementation of an open source solution. OLi handles the installation, configuration, and branding of selected open source solutions for large consortiums as well as small pilot programs at colleges and universities across the country. School web sites can be customized with the school's logo and artwork to deliver an e-learning environment with a tailored look and feel specific to the school or department. This seamless process makes getting started with an open source solution painless for the school and its IT department.
OLi services include:
- Pre-Implementation planning
- Training
- Hosting
- Ongoing Support
A Few of OLi 's North Carolina clients include:
- UNC
- UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Collaborative
- Wake Technical Community College
- Central Piedmont Community College
For more information, see the OLi Web site at http://www.optimizedlearn.com/.
OLi is a strategic partner and a preferred hosting provider for
UNICON. Unicon is the leading provider of open-source enterprise portals, applications, and integration technology for higher education institutions worldwide. The company actively contributes and supports the uPortal open source Web portal initiative and Sakai community source Collaboration and Learning Environment. Through its collective knowledge, best practices, and domain expertise, Unicon enhances and unlocks the potential of the online campus. More information is available at http://www.unicon.net/.
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The UNC TLT Collaborative Provides Sakai for All UNC Campuses (formal presentation)
PRESIDIUM LEARNING specializes in providing strategic solutions in the areas of contact center, help desk, and user experience management. We are the industry leader in providing 24/7 support and our clients maintain industry-leading completion, retention, and satisfaction rates. We are the only provider of privately branded multi-channel customer support environments for higher education.
Mediasite™ by
SONIC FOUNDRY is a web communication and content management system that automatically and inexpensively webcasts lectures and presentations. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies, education institutions, and government agencies, Mediasite transforms how knowledge workers receive vital information for online training, corporate communication, distance learning, and professional advancement. At the push of one button, Mediasite unobtrusively records presenters and instantly webcasts their audio, video, and visual aids with no time-consuming or costly production. Learners then access the information live or on-demand. Only Mediasite lets you create affordable multimedia webcasts and gives you the tools to manage and secure those presentations.
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 on the Web at http://sun.com/edu/.
REMOTE-LEARNER.NET provides authorized Moodle open source LMS services for K-20 academic organizations including hosting, training, support contracts, and core development. Our company has delivered educational technologies services continuously since 1982. We have developed a stack of open source online learning technologies that integrate with Moodle including school web portal software (Drupal), document management and e-portfolio (Alfresco), and web service connection with most SIS software.
TASKSTREAM is the leader in web-based electronic portfolios, performance assessment, and standards-based instructional design for colleges and universities. TaskStream "Tools of Engagement" (http://www.taskstream.com/) provides a universal toolset for outcomes assessment and reporting, web publication of electronic portfolios, and resource management. TaskStream can be adapted and customized to achieve critical outcomes for individual educators or departmental and collegewide programs.
Electronic Portfolios for Demonstrating Learning Achievement (formal presentation)
THOMSON is among the world's largest providers of educational content and is constantly changing the way products and services are developed and delivered to meet every educational need, now and in the future. We have created a business that helps our customers find solutions to their needs, learn the material required for their courses or careers, and finally measure success through testing or certification. Thomson has created business models that address both faculty and institutional goals.
TURNITIN is a web-based system that identifies papers containing unoriginal material and helps to stop student plagiarism. Turnitin also offers a suite of web-based class management tools, including Peer Review for student collaboration, GradeMark for paper markup, and GradeBook for managing grades and assignments.
Last Modified March 19, 2007