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Elluminate Goes Beyond Traditional LMS Integrations to Deliver Live eLearning for Social Networks, Online Learning Communities

Posted on: Wednesday, 8 April 2009, 07:49 CDT

Elluminate Bridges Continue to Provide Seamless Access to real-time Virtual Classroom for Growing List of LMS/CMS Partners

PLEASANTON, Calif., April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Elluminate, Inc. is expanding its role as the leading vendor for live, online communication, collaboration, and education with a growing list of partners that have integrated Elluminate enabling technology not only with traditional LMS/CMS environments but also with social networking and collaborative online communities to augment formal institution-based learning with a learner-centric approach.

Elluminate Community Partners, including Classroom 2.0, Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC), and the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA), have integrated Elluminate vRoom(TM) into their online communities, providing thousands of members with access to a virtual meeting room that enables them to expand educational boundaries and interact with more peers and experts.

Elluminate's Bright Ideas Partner Program includes strategic, technology, and community partners who have seamlessly integrated the Elluminate Learning Suite(TM) with their offerings, enabling customers to better leverage their technology investments. A comprehensive set of APIs and specifications, Elluminate Bridge SDK allows organizations to develop custom integrations for any LMS, CMS, or portal. For example, Promethean Planet online community members can now use a virtual classroom, powered by Elluminate, to connect with other teachers and classrooms worldwide.

Elluminate Bridges provide single-click access to the interactive virtual classroom from within an academic institution's existing and familiar LMS/CMS environment and enable instructors to add synchronous distance learning and collaboration to course work. Elluminate's expanding list of traditional integrations includes:

• ANGEL Learning Management Suite
• Blackboard Learning System
• Desire2Learn
• Pearson eCollege Course Management System
• Fourpoint Learning
• Fronter Platform
• Moodle Course Management System
• Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment
• Studywiz

Elluminate Bridge integrations install into existing environments quickly and securely, enabling instructors to create, schedule, deliver, and archive Elluminate Live! sessions that provide a wide variety of functionality, including voice over the Internet, high-resolution video, shared whiteboard, application and desktop sharing, web tour, breakout rooms, public and private chat, polling and quizzing, closed captioning and other accessibility options, synchronized notes, user profiles, and multimedia content delivery.

"The highlight of the Members Only section on our new website is the free member access to an Elluminate meeting room," said USDLA Board Member Reggie Smith III. "I have been involved in distance learning for 20 years and Elluminate's collaborative web-based tools are impressively flexible and can be applied to any area with ease. The USDLA and Elluminate partnership adds a valuable dimension to the USDLA's ability to provide virtual classroom space to its members and to host the Association's learning community webinars."

"A number of customers within the ANGEL community have adopted Elluminate's product and provide positive reference for supporting Elluminate at the higher level," said Ray Henderson, Chief Products Officer, ANGEL Learning. "We're pleased to expand our partnership with Elluminate and offer our customers an improved range of options for their synchronous instruction needs."

"Roughly 80% of our program is asynchronous with the ANGEL Learning Management Suite, and each course has at least one scheduled Elluminate virtual classroom instructional session per week. So Elluminate's ANGEL integration is an important effort for us," said Roger Hanley, VP of Instruction and Quality Assurance, Insight Schools.

"For many organizations today, a successful eLearning solution means a blended approach using both asynchronous and synchronous technology," said Maurice Heiblum, President, Elluminate, Inc. "Through alliances with the world's leading software, hardware, and service providers, Elluminate delivers an ever-expanding set of tools and integrations to support our customers' education initiatives and business strategies now and in the future. We are extremely pleased that our efforts continue to be supported by growing customer adoption."

About Elluminate, Inc.

Elluminate, Inc. provides proven, best-in-class solutions for real-time online learning and collaboration that deliver exceptional outcomes, including enhanced learning experiences, increased retention and completion rates, and higher ROI. Elluminate has served more than 300 million web-collaboration minutes to over 3 million teachers and students located in 185 different countries. The winner of several prestigious awards, the company is also one of Deloitte's 50 Fastest Growing Technology Companies and is positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing, 2008.

Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and Pleasanton, California, Elluminate is the trusted choice of prominent academic institutions and corporations, including ADP, Apple Computer, California State University, Florida Virtual School, Georgetown University, K12 Inc., London Knowledge Lab, Los Angeles Unified School District, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Novell, Queen's University, Royal Veterinary College, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and many more. For more information, visit http://www.elluminate.com.

Elluminate Live! is a registered trademark of Elluminate, Inc., Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

SOURCE Elluminate, Inc.

Source: PR Newswire

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