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Elluminate Enables Babson College to Deliver Real-time, Web-based Education
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. --(Business Wire)-- April 12, 2005 --
Interactive eLearning Environment Provides Synchronous Content for Remote Students
Elluminate, Inc., a leading provider of live eLearning and Web collaboration solutions for the real-time organization, announced today that Babson College has implemented Elluminate Live! Academic Version(TM). The college is using Elluminate Live! to simulate the face-to-face experience of a traditional classroom, adding live interaction to distance education programs and blended online/onsite course offerings, such as Babson's Fast Track MBA Program, the first of its kind in New England.
Elluminate Live! enables instructors to host guest speakers, eliminating costly travel, and students can attend class even when ill or during inclement weather. Other uses for the live eLearning environment at Babson College include virtual office hours for instructors and group spaces for students to use for online collaboration. In addition, the Executive Education arm of the college is using Elluminate Live! to build course modules for sale to corporations around the world.
"Our Fast Track MBA features a state-of-the-art curriculum that combines in-person and Web-based training using our Blackboard Learning Management System. We wanted to expand that program to include a synchronous component. When I saw Elluminate Live! during a presentation Stephen Laster (director of my group) gave, I knew I wanted to learn more about the product," said Tova Garcia Duby, Operations and ePlatform Manager in the Curriculum Innovation and Technology Group (CITG) at Babson College. "Elluminate Live! made sense to me, with its high-quality audio and intuitive interface I was impressed right from the start. In addition, the feedback from our reference checks of Elluminate's Blackboard users and onsite hosting customers was great. Our Elluminate Live! pilot was an enormous success, and we are now using it to make courses available to students who wouldn't normally have access. Elluminate Live! is an application that can easily grow with us as we start down this new path of e-delivery."
"Elluminate is extremely pleased to work with Babson College to help take its online education to the next level," said Maurice Heiblum, Elluminate's VP of Sales & Marketing. "Elluminate Live! Academic Edition is designed by educators for educators, providing the same dynamic interaction as a face-to-face classroom, with the same results."
About Babson College
Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., is recognized internationally as a leader in entrepreneurial management education. Babson grants BS degrees through its innovative undergraduate program, and grants MBA and custom MS and MBA degrees through the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. Babson Executive Education offers executive development programs to experienced managers worldwide. For information, visit www.babson.edu.
About Elluminate, Inc.
Elluminate, Inc. provides proven solutions for real-time online learning and collaboration, regardless of platform or Internet connection speed. Delivering best-in-class performance, Elluminate features reliable cross-platform support, high-quality voice over the Internet, robust interactive functionality for participants and moderators, and unique No User Left Behind(TM) technology. Elluminate delivers real results and exceptional value with lower Total Cost of Ownership and higher ROI. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Elluminate is the trusted choice of prominent corporate and academic organizations, such as T-Mobile, Interstate Hotels and Resorts, Penn State University, Johns Hopkins University and many more. For more information, visit www.elluminate.com.
Elluminate Live! is a trademark of Elluminate, Inc., Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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