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Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. . Even after thousands of "dot-coms" became "not-coms" in the last two years, e-learning companies survived. Some even prospered as colleges and universities, beset by budget woes, began exploring cost-effective ways to reach more students. But the e-learning market is a confusing one. That's why we're pleased to offer the 2002 Guide to e-Learning Vendors--those firms that design courseware, produce software, and provide marketing, delivery, and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . Our user-friendly icons can help you quickly find the vendors you need, while the glossary on page 37 is helpful (especially if you don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. your ASP from your elbow). a key to the icons [hosting] [electronic library/publisher] [instructional design] [administrative information/management system] [portal] [course aggregator] [learning management/authoring tool] [services] The directory lists more than 100 companies providing e-learning services. We cannot claim that the guide is all-inclusive, and it does not include a number of OEMs, large software makers, end others for whom e-learning is not a primary focus. Inclusion should not be construed as endorsement. In-formation was provided by the companies end was not independently verified. Please send any comments, corrections, or additions to editorial@ universitybusiness.com. 3GB GROUP 1750 North Research Park Way, Suite 104 North Logan, UT 84341 T 435/797-4674 WWW.3GB.com [learning management/authoring tool] [services] [hosting] [instructional design] 3GB's Syllabase platform provides a scalable infrastructure for posting text and media files, Web links, assessments, sharing files, etc. Company states that this spring it is launching a new database-driven intranet system based on ASP model, plus a new product called Magic Box; a more flexible course platform. Services offered include instructional design Instructional design is the practice of arranging media (communication technology) and content to help learners and teachers transfer knowledge most effectively. The process consists broadly of determining the current state of learner understanding, defining the end goal of , IT consultation, hosting, installation, integration, tech support. ACADEMIC SYSTEMS CORP 444 Castro Street, Suite 1100 Mountain View, CA 94041 T 800/694-6850 F 650/694-6830 WWW.ACADEMICSYSTEMS.COM [electronic library/publisher] [hosting] Academic Systems creates interactive course materials in basic subjects including writing, mathematics, business and economics, and biology and chemistry. The company--the higher education division of Lightspan--has been offering self-paced online courses in math and writing, designed to be offered either in the classroom or at a distance under the supervision of a course facilitator. More recently, Academic Systems has announced the availability of 430 learning objects to he used as supplementary course materials. Also offered: course building tools, a course management platform (in partnership with Blackboard), faculty training. The company has added support for Macintosh computers and states that its course materials can be used with a number of commercial CMSs (including Blackboard and WebCT). ACTIVEWORLDS CORP 95 Parker Street, Newburyport, MA 01950 T 978/499-0222 F 978/499-0221 WWW.ACTIVEWORLDS.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [hosting] Activeworlds provides software and online hosting for 3-D virtual worlds. The company says its software comes with a set of standard objects including buildings, animated "avatars" (online figures that stand in for users), music, etc., which fit together like Legos for the purpose of building large, complex objects and virtual environments. The software is said to be simple to use for consumers. Activeworlds, however, will custom design 3-D environments for clients. (A typical educational application might be a virtual campus tour.) The company has more than 80 participants in its Active Worlds Educational Universe, some hosting classes in 3-D online classrooms. The company offers educational discounts, hosting, tech support, and training. AKIVA 1901 Camino Vida Roble, Suite 115 Carlsbad, CA 92008 T 760/710-3200 F 760/710-3299 WWW.WEBBOARD.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [hosting] Akiva, launched in mid-February and the result of a merger between LMS MindCruiser and conferencing software company ChatSpace, develops the WebBoard online message-posting product. Suited to augment campus-based instruction, WebBoard enables the creation of categorized online discussion groups for collaborative work and posting of graphics files. The company says that the software allows administrators to set up and manage an unlimited number of chat rooms and message boards, each with its own look. Users can mark discussion topics of interest and receive e-mail notices each time a discussion forum is updated. WebBoard pages may be archived online. ALTIRIS INC 588 W. 400 S., Lindon, UT 84042 T 801/226-8500 F 801/226-8506 WWW.ALTIRIS.COM [services] The company specializes in products that allow IT departments to deploy, install, and maintain software over networks. It offers two products in the field of education. Education Mgmt Suite manages the installation of operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , applications, and updates. It also has tracking features and is Web-based. Lab Mgmt Suite permits rapid reconfiguration of individual computers in lab settings. Additional features include the ability to send on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. messages to individual students, view student screens, and remotely lock keyboards and mice. ANLON SYSTEMS INC 115 East Hickory Street, Suite 400 Mankato, MN 56001-3618 T 888/865-4793 F 507/388-2649 WWW.ANLON.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [services] Anlon develops and sells an LMS/CMS called Anlon 4.0 (formerly known as IntraKal) that the company compares to Blackboard 5.0. Features include modules to manage course registration and e-commerce. The system is designed to be integrated with campus ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. , and is a database-driven system, so it can store learning objects. Available in ASP form through Agility, or installed on school server. A new feature allows content to be formatted for download to a handheld device. Academic clients include the State College and University System of Minnesota and Maricopa Community College. APOLLO GROUP-INSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 4605 East Elwood Street, Phoenix, AZ 85040 T 480/966-7982 F 480/966-9429 WWW.IPD.ORG [services] The Apollo Group Apollo Group, Inc. NASDAQ: APOL is an S&P 500 corporation based in Phoenix, Arizona. Apollo Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides higher education to working adults. is the parent company of the University of Phoenix. Its Institute for Professional Development, established in 1973, assists private small to medium-sized accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. colleges and universities in providing specially designed programs for working adults. The Apollo Group's many services include program promotion, student recruitment, operational and financial systems, financial resources, program administration, management consultation and training, assessment services, and marketing and academic research services. APPLIED COMPUTER SYSTEMS INC 3000 Johnstown Utica Road Johnstown, OH 43031-9394 T 740/892-2100 F 740-892-4838 WWW.ACS-LINKSYSTEMS.COM [learning management/authoring tool] ACS (Asynchronous Communications Server) See network access server. provides video and audio networking solutions for computerized classrooms and laboratories. The company's products allow an instructor to control student terminals; "blank" one or more screens; project VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. , TV, CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). , or other input to student screens; project a selected student's screen to all screens; monitor student work and applications use; etc. APPLYYOURSELF INC 11781 Lee Jackson Highway, Suite 200 FairFax, VA 22033 T 800/526-3313 F 703/279-7958 WWW.APPLYYOURSELF.COM [services] [hosting] ApplyYourself manages the student application process for colleges and universities. An inquiry-management module allows schools to automate e-mail responses, track Web inquiries, and produce reports. The admissions module permits a school to design its own online application. The application is then hosted by ApplyYourself, and data can be exported to major student information systems. The company says that it is currently expanding its services to include hosting and managing entire school Web sites, including Web development, hosting streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. , and managing communication tools. AREL COMMUNICATIONS AND SOFTWARE INC 1200 Ashwood Parkway, Suite 550 Atlanta, GA 30338 T 770/396-8105 F 770/396-1755 WWW.AREL.NET [learning management/authoring tool] [hosting] This Israeli-based company provides solutions for broad-scale distribution of interactive learning and corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. through satellite, Web, and fiber optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber . Though probably better known in the realm of corporate training, the system is used in academia as well. A recent client is Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hebrew University of Jerusalem Independent university in Jerusalem, Israel, founded in 1925. The foremost university in Israel, it attracts many Jewish students from abroad; Arab students also attend. , which will use Arel products to support live and on-demand continuing education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). for physicians. AVILAR TECHNOLOGIES INC 8750-g Cherry Lane, Laurel, MD 20707 T 888/873-7014 F 301/725-0980 HOME.AVILAR.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [services] [hosting] [instructional design] Avilar is the creator of the WebMentor LMS/CMS. A free authoring product enables teachers to design courses that can be delivered online or through CD-ROM. WebMentor Enterprise provides support for registration, course delivery, student records, communications, and e-commerce. The company will integrate with ERP. WebMentor can be licensed to run on the school's server or be delivered through ASP model. The product supports delivery of courses via CD-ROM, with student performance records tracked and synchronized online, plus full student record-keeping for courses from many outside vendors. Avilar Technologies says it was the first commercial LMS to be SCORM SCORM Shareable Content Object Reference Model (web-based e-learning standard) SCORM Shared Courseware Object Reference Model SCORM Shareable Courseware Object Reference Model conformant. Compatible with Ready-Go authoring tools. Additional services: portal creation, instructional design, etc. Clients include the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium. BITFLIP INTERACTIVE GROUP 5 West 19th Street, 9th Floor New York, NY 10011 T 212/771-1700 WWW.BITFLIP.COM [electronic library/publisher] BitFlip designs interactive media. Services include Identity, strategy, content, user interface, architecture, front end, and back end. Educational clients include the Alliance for Lifelong Learning Lifelong learning is the concept that "It's never too soon or too late for learning", a philosophy that has taken root in a whole host of different organisations. Lifelong learning is attitudinal; that one can and should be open to new ideas, decisions, skills or behaviors. (a partnership of Oxford, Stanford, and Yale) and Kaplan. BLACKBOARD INC 1111 19th Street. NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20036 T 202/463-4860 F 202/463-4863 WWW.BLACKBOARD.COM [portal] [learning management/authoring tool] [services] Blackboard, a major supplier of course management for higher education, offers three related products: an LMS, a portal, and a transaction system. The company offers: integration of its products with campus ERP, teacher training, hosting. Blackboard supports Windows, Solaris, Linux, and HP Unix, and it can use Oracle 8i as its database. The company's latest release, Blackboard 5.5, offers a number of new features including: improved accessibility for handicapped students, building-block architecture, the ability to create sequential. learning paths, course cartridges containing published materials in dozens of disciplines, and expanded enterprise capabilities. Extensive client base in higher education and industry. BOTTLED SOFTWARE 9840 Westpoint Drive, Suite 260 Indianapolis, IN 46256 T 317/576-1120 F 317/576-1135 WWW.BOTTLEDSOFTWARE.COM [learning management/authoring tool] The company's WebTwist product is a content management platform for creating and maintaining Web pages. It supports PDFs, text, sound, image, and video files. Recent Bottled Software clients include Anderson University There are two institutions in the United States with the name Anderson University, both formerly known as Anderson College:
CAMPUS PIPELINE 155 North 400 West, Suite 500 Salt Lake City, UT 84103 T 888/682-7473 F 801/485-6606 WWW.CAMPUSPIPELINE.COM [portal] [services] Campus Pipeline got its start as a provider of advertising-supported campus Web portals. It now offers several product lines. The Web platform includes a wide array of features, including calendar, course home pages and message boards, targeted announcements, administrative services, distance learning integration, and Web page creation and hosting. The new Lumina product line adds a content management suite and an integration suite. The company says it is working with partners including Sun, iPlanet, Documentum, Dell, SCT Sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) A tumor occurring at the base of the fetus's tailbone. Mentioned in: Prenatal Surgery , and the Java in Administration Special Interest Group (JA-SIG JA-SIG Java Application-Special Interest Group ) to build a standards-based platform that will integrate automatically with other vendor software platforms and database hardware. Late last year, Campus Pipeline announced a program called the "Pillar Partner Program" in which nine of their high-profile university clients take an active role in critiquing and making suggestions for the continual development of the Campus Pipeline product. The company also offers training and consulting, and states that it has more than 125 higher-education clients. CENQUEST 317 Southwest Adler #20, Portland, OR 97204 T 888/899-4388 WWW.CENQUEST.COM [course aggregator] [services] [hosting] [instructional design] Using university-created content, Cenquest creates custom degree programs--mostly graduate programs in business and technology--for corporate clients. The company provides marketing, registration, etc., and manages courses in its own browser-based platform; it also offers a full range of support and delivery services to enable e-learning events, including faculty support and training, student tracking, event management, and hosting. Recent corporate clients include IBM and Microsoft See Microsoft and IBM. . University partners include TRIUM (a partnership of New York University New York University, mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the , the London School of Economics The School is a member of the Russell Group, the European University Association, Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Community of European Management Schools and International Companies, The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs as well as the Golden , and HEC HEC Hautes Études Commerciales HEC Hautes Etudes Commerciales (French) HEC Higher Education Commission (Pakistan) HEC Hydrologic Engineering Center (Davis, CA) Paris), Babson College Babson College, located in Wellesley, Massachusetts (zoned as "Babson Park," ZIP code 02457),[1] is a private business school that grants all undergraduates a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. The F. W. , and Oregon Health and Science University. Cenquest was recently hired by NYU NYU New York University NYU New York Undercover (TV show) to Web-enable core courses in the Stern School's Langone Program, a part-time MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration program. CENTRA SOFTWARE INC 430 Bedford Street, Lexington, MA 02420 T 781/861-7000 F 781/862-2453 WWW.CENTRA.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [services] [hosting] Centra provides software and services to support online meetings and conferences, including live audio and video. The company also provides the ability to create and manage learning objects, and to import learning objects from outside sources. Live broadcasts can be recorded and broadcast asynchronously. Features include virtual breakout rooms, testing, whiteboard, and hand raising. The company also offers hosting, training, consulting, and technical support. CENTRINITY INC 38 Leek Crescent, Richmond Hill Ontario Canada L4B 4N8 T 905/762-6000 F 905/762-6000 WWW.CENTRINITY.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [services] [hosting] Centrinity develops and licenses FirstClass, an integrated messaging software package that allows users to Web-enable and coordinate all communications systems under one mailbox, controlled with a single password. Messages received via e-mail, voicemail, or fax all go into one mailbox and can be checked over the phone or over the Internet. (The program permits speech to be transferred into text and vice versa VICE VERSA. On the contrary; on opposite sides. ). A feature called "Conferences" allows approved users to post messages on an online message board in categorized folders. Other features: group calendar and chat. CLICK2LEARN INC 110-110th Avenue, NE, Suite 700 Bellevue, WA 98004 T 800/448-6543 F 425/637-1504 WWW.CLICK2LEARN.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [services] [hosting] Click2Learn develops CMS/LMS products. It has two basic lines. First, the Aspen Enterprise Learning Platform consisting of three modules: an LMS with skills-gap analysis and performance tracking; an open-architecture content-management platform that supports XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. metadata tagging; and a portal. The Second platform, a CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. called Toolbook, comes in two versions: Instructor and Assistant, designed for users of different levels of programming skills. Assistant includes templates and is aimed at faculty with limited skills. Instructor includes tools for managing courses across campus and tracking students. The two can be used together. The company can also help in content production and creation of custom tools. CNAV SYSTEMS INC 300 N. Washington Street, Box 390 Gettysburg, PA 17325 T 717/337-6936 F 717/337-8528 WWW.CNAVSYSTEMS.COM [services] CNAV CNAV Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Vieillesse (French) CNAV Celestial Navigation CNAV Civilian Navigation sells what it calls a "smart hub See intelligent hub. "--software that connects all of a campus's databases, and permits them to talk to each other. The system grew out of a project by the IT department of Pennsylvania's Gettysburg College Gettysburg College is a private national four-year liberal arts college founded in 1832, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, adjacent to the famous battlefield. and uses proprietary code that is shared with customers. After a detailed implementation process, CNAV can Web-enable a full range of data: inventory tracking, time sheets, grades, course, evaluations, etc. CNAV Systems says it has data sockets to integrate with Peoplesoft, BSR BSR Business for Social Responsibility BSR Baltic Sea Region BSR British Society for Rheumatology BSR Bootstrap Router (networking) BSR Bonsoir (French) BSR Bottom-Simulating Reflector Advance C/S See client/server. , AIMS, Ress, and Wineamacs ERP systems and that it can develop custom data sockets as needed as needed prn. See prn order. . COGNITIVE ARTS 1840 Oak Ave., Suite 400, Evanston, IL 60201 T 847/425-8500 F 847/425-8510 WWW.COGNITIVEARTS.COM [services] [hosting] [instructional design] This instructional design company, which grew out of Northwestern University's Institute for the Learning Sciences, has taken to calling itself an e-learning strategist and general contractor A general contractor is an organization or individual that contracts with another organization or individual (the owner) for the construction of a building, road or any other execution of work or facility. . Cognitive Arts offers project management, consulting, learning design, technology planning and selection, user support, hosting, and ongoing maintenance for clients wishing to develop e-learning. The company has a course management/learning management system, which can handle enrollments and e-commerce. ASP service and tech support are available. Cognitive Arts offers training, including a certificate program in learning design and tech design, and will provide online facilitators or tutors for clients. Current customers include Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. Online, Columbia University Columbia University, mainly in New York City; founded 1754 as King's College by grant of King George II; first college in New York City, fifth oldest in the United States; one of the eight Ivy League institutions. , and INSEAD INSEAD Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires (European Institute for Business Administration; now know simply as INSEAD) INSEAD I Never Stop Eating And Drinking . COLLEGENET 805 SW Broadway, Suite 1600 Portland, OR 97205 T 503/973-5200 F 503/973-5252 WWW.CORP.COLLEGENET.COM [services] CollegeNet provides software and online services in three areas: academic and event scheduling Event scheduling is the activity of finding a suitable time for an event such as meeting, conference, trip, etc. It is an important part of event planning that is usually carried out at its beginning stage. ; Internet admissions; and campus-wide forms commerce. The company's Web-based forms can be used for admissions, alumni giving, financial aid, campus parking permits, etc. CollegeNet custom builds an online application for each of its clients. Any range of related information can be packaged with the application form, including video/audio files with introductory/ recruitment information. Potential students can search for schools on the CollegeNet Web site by name, type of degree, major, etc. The company also maintains a recruitment service for students who pay a fee to provide info about themselves to a database accessible to CollegeNet clients for recruitment purposes. The company serves more than 800 higher-education clients. COLLEGISEDUPRISE COLLEGIS (SEE EDUPRISE) 2300 Maitland Center Parkway, Suite 340 Maitland, FL 32751 T 800/800-1874 F 407/660-8008 COMPASS KNOWLEDGE HOLDINGS INC 2710 Rew Circle, Suite 100 Ocoee, FL 34761 T 407/573-2000 F 407/656-7585 WWW.COMPASSKNOWLEDGE.COM [course aggregator] [services] [hosting] [instructional design] Compass Knowledge is a courseware designer and ASP, producing graduate and undergraduate degree “First degree” redirects here. For the BBC television series, see First Degree. An undergraduate degree (sometimes called a first degree or simply a degree and certificate programs targeted at working professionals in Health, Law, and Education. (The company's pharmacy program, offered in conjunction with the University of Florida University of Florida is the third-largest university in the United States, with 50,912 students (as of Fall 2006) and has the eighth-largest budget (nearly $1.9 billion per year). UF is home to 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. , is said to be the largest of its kind in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. .) Content is generated by universities, which also provide instructors, and grant degrees. Compass Knowledge creates courseware, markets it through its Web site, and provides registration, tuition handling, student tracking, and hosting. CONNECTED LEARNING NETWORK INC 323 West Broadway, Suite 400 Louisville, KY 40202 T 800/569-6505 F 502/583-0092 WWW.CONNECTEDLEARNING.NET [services] [hosting] [instructional sign] Connected Learning Network creates customized courses and modules for corporations, schools, colleges, associations, and government agencies. It provides software, Web design, instructional design, and training of faculty and staff to Web-enable traditional courses, certificate programs, and degree programs. Connected learning uses Intralearn course creation software. CONVENE 595 Market Street, 12th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 T 888/286-8363 F 415/782-0525 WWW.CONVENE.COM [portal] [learning management/authoring tool] [services] [hosting] [instructional design] Convene has offered a learning platform since 1993. In 2000, it acquired Izio, and reengineered its existing products into IzioPro, a system for managing collaborative learning Collaborative learning is an umbrella term for a variety of approaches in education that involve joint intellectual effort by students or students and teachers. Collaborative learning refers to methodologies and environments in which learners engage in a common task in which each . The company's latest software release incorporates batch e-mail, document sharing See data conferencing. , tracking, and assessment that scales to tens of thousands of simultaneous users. A new virtual help desk is also included. Services include instructional design, hosting, teacher training and consulting on online strategy, and systems integration. Academic clients include Stanford's Haas School of Business, National College of Ireland Not to be confused with National University of Ireland. National College of Ireland (NCI) is a third level institution based alongside the IFSC in North Wall, Dublin. History , and Kennesaw State University Kennesaw State University, commonly known as Kennesaw State, is a public, coeducational university and is part of the University System of Georgia. It is located in Kennesaw, an unincorporated community in Cobb County, Georgia, United States, approximately 20 miles north of . COURSESHARE.COM Indiana University Research Park 501 N. Morton Street, Suite 213 Bloomington, IN 47404-3730 T 812/855-2282 F 812/855-4506 WWW.COURSESHARE.COM [services] Founded by faculty of Indiana University Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ. , Courseshare offers research, assessment, consulting, training, and tool development services for online learning. Courseshare aims to provide an online forum through which faculty can share pedagogical ped·a·gog·ic also ped·a·gog·i·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of pedagogy. 2. Characterized by pedantic formality: a haughty, pedagogic manner. tools, content, and other e-learning associated information. The company also designs, tests, evaluates, and licenses new e-learning tools. Products (some not yet released) include online surveys, electronic portfolios, personal profiles, case-based learning systems, information sharing See data conferencing. tools, and electronic discussion forums. CROSSTEC CORPORATION 500 NE Spanish River Boulevard, Suite 201 Boca Raton, FL 33431 T 561/391-6560 F 561/391-5820 WWW.NETOPUSA.COM [learning management/authoring tool] CrossTec, developed for in-class or remote instruction, allows the teacher's screen to be broadcast to all student screens, and manages communications to allow discussion groups, instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , and private teacher-student communication. Features include lockout lockout, intentional closing up of a company, factory, or shop by an employer to prevent employees from working during a strike or labor dispute. The term lockout of applications on student machines, and ability to broadcast over WAN or over the Internet. CYBERLEARNINGLABS.COM PO Box 78435 Indianapolis, IN 46278-0435 T 317/860-3810 F 317/860-3810 WWW.CYBERLEARNINGLABS.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [services] [hosting] [instructional design] Cyberlearning Labs markets Angel, a CMS and portal originally developed for use by the Indiana University system. The template-based system is designed for easy use by faculty; it includes communications tools, test capability with instant feedback, gradebook, and extensive assessment features. New features: Collaboration tools to let students set up online study groups and share calendars and files, plus ability to synchronize e-mail with Palm-based handhelds. CYBERU 3250 Ocean Park Boulevard, Suite 150 Santa Monica, CA 90405 T 310/581-2005 F 310/581-2007 WWW.CYBERU.COM [course aggregator] [services] [hosting] CyberU is an aggregator and distributor of courses in the liberal arts liberal arts, term originally used to designate the arts or studies suited to freemen. It was applied in the Middle Ages to seven branches of learning, the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. , sciences, and professional fields created by colleges, universities, and for-profit educational companies. The company's current catalog includes 30,000 courses, 90 percent of which are from colleges or universities. CyberU acts as a clearinghouse for online courses, and provides hosting, registration, and tuition collection. The company's emphasis is on the corporate market, but it continues to market directly to consumers. DIVACE LEARNING SOLUTIONS LTD P.O. Box 41 20741 Turku Finland T +358 2 2166 500 F +358 2 2166 527 WWW.DIVACE.COM [learning management/authoring tool] Formerly known as Teleste Educational, Divace develops digital language labs, classroom systems, and software solutions for storage and access of multimedia files. U.S. clients include UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , California State University Enrollment  , and East Carolina University East Carolina University is a public, coeducational, intensive research university located in Greenville, North Carolina, United States. Named East Carolina University by statue and commonly known as ECU or East Carolina .
DATATEL INC 4375 Fair Lakes Court Fairfax, VA 22033 T 703/968-9000 F 703/968-4573 WWW.DATATEL.COM [administrative information/management system] Datatel's ERP system, tailored specifically for higher education, does not include any dedicated e-learning components, but the company states that it provides "infrastructure support for any IMS-compliant system." The ERP is also set up so that data entered into one database system (say, the registrar's office) can be instantly exchanged with another data system plugged into the Datatel ERP infrastructure. Datatel maintains partnerships with both Blackboard and WebCT. DOCENT 2444 Charleston Road Mountain View, CA 94043-1622 T 650/934-9500 F 550/962-941 WWW.DOCENT.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [services] [hosting] Building upon skills-gap assessment software it created in the late 1980s, Docent develops and sells an object-oriented, database-driven learning management system. Although the company works mainly with the corporate training market, it made some forays into the academic market late last year through a partnership with LMS/CMS provider Prometheus, and another with NYUonline (to gain access to the school's authoring tool)--but NYUonline closed, and Prometheus was acquired by Blackboard. Current academic clients include the University of Phoenix and Harvard Business Online Enterprise Solutions. EBRARY 360 N. Bernardo Avenue Mountain View, CA 94043 T 550/230-0700 F 650/230-0881 WWW.EBRARY.COM [electronic library/publisher] Ebrary licenses books and journals from major publishers, and distributes them on the Web to libraries, corporation, and (under a slightly different model) directly to consumers. Holdings currently include 5,000 titles in a variety of subject areas such as language and literature, social science, medicine, history, science and technology, and philosophy from more than 100 publishers. Ebrary's system includes search capabilities and user tools such as note-taking and personal bookshelf. Printing is available at a fee. Ebrary also supports distribution of school content through its system, and distribution of electronic coursepacks through a partner. ECOLLEGE.COM 10200A East Girard Avenue Denver, CO 80231 T 888/884-7325 WWW.ECOLLEGE.COM [portal] [learning management/authoring tool] [services] [hosting] eCollage is a software and services company. Its LMS and portal products offer a wide variety of features for both online instruction and blended environments. New this year: ClassLive, a synchronous teaching tool designed to let faculty conduct office hours office hours, n.pl See business hours. , tutoring, and lectures online. Included are archiving, graphing, chat, polling, hand raising and application sharing A data conferencing capability that lets two or more users interactively work on the same application at the same time. The application is loaded and running in only one machine; however, keystrokes are transmitted from and screen changes are transmitted to the other participants. , plus math/science/ accounting whiteboard capabilities. Other features: student tracking, skills-gap analysis, online surveys, secure testing. The company states that its product complies with Section 508 of the U.S. Federal Accessibility Standard for electronic and information technology. EDUCATIONAL VIDEO CONFERENCING 35 East Grassy Sprain Road, Suite 200 Yonkers, NY 10710 T 914/787-3500 F 914/395-3558 WWW.EVCINC.COM [course aggregator] [hosting] The company has shifted its business and now is primarily involved in owning and operating for-profit universities and training programs. Its original business-aggregating video-based educational content for delivery to corporations and academic institutions continues, but in scaled-back Form. EDUPRISE (SEE ALSO COLLEGIS) 2000 Perimeter Park Drive, Suite 160 Morrisville, NC 27560 T 919/376-1339 F 919/462-6450 WWW.COLLEGISEDUPRISE.COM [services] [hosting] [instructional design] Collegis and Eduprise merged in August 2001, though the two companies continue to maintain separate offices. Collegis serves as an IT outsourcer, offering hosting, tech support, installation and integration of hardware, staffing, training. Eduprise helps schools implement online course management, from consulting through course delivery. Services include hosting For both online courses and administrative portal platforms, course conversion (i.e., digitizing information), course design, and training on course tools and best practices. Tech support for faculty and students is also available. EKNOWLEDGE INC 1520 West Sixth Street, Suite 101 Corona, CA 92882 T 800/980-8569 WWW.EKNOWLEDGE.COM [instructional design] Eknowledge converts existing courses or training programs for delivery in video form, either on CD-ROM or over the Web. The company also markets its own training programs in the areas of human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , safety, and government. EKTRON INC 5 Northern Boulevard, Bldg. 6 Amherst, NH 03031 T 603/594-0249 F 603/594-0258 WWW.EKTRON.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [services] Ektron provides law-cost tools for Web content management, including editing, authoring, and publishing. The products support XML metadata tagging. The editing tools support multiple languages and character types, including Chinese. The company also offers Web development, installation, and integration services. Ektron's higher education clients include Duke University, Pace University, Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. , and Purdue University Purdue University (pərdy  `, -d`), main campus at West Lafayette, Ind. .
ELEMENT K 500 Canal View Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14623 T 716/240-7500 F 716/240-7760 WWW.ELEMENTK.COM [course aggregator] [learning management/authoring tool] [services] [instructional design] In its 20-year history, the company has been known as SmartPlanet.com, Ziff-Davis University, LearnItOnline.com, and Logical Operations. Element K offers a Full-featured learning management system, and an extensive catalog of courseware in using desktop applications, Internet design and media, and IT certifications. Also offers face-to-face training, newsletters, and other publications in information technology. Higher education clients include the Boston Consortium, Florida Community College Distance Learning Consortium, Johns Hopkins University, Virginia Tech, and Mercer County Community College Mercer County Community College is an accredited, co-educational, two-year, public, community college located in Mercer County, New Jersey. The school's current president is Dr. Patricia C. Donohue. More than 13,000 students enroll in one or more credit courses each year. . ELEARNERS.COM PO Box 1153 Hoboken, NJ 07030 T 201/222-3741 F 201/222-0848 WWW.ELEARNERS.COM [course aggregator] e-Learners is a clearinghouse, linking students to online courses and programs (mainly in higher ed but also including K-12 and other content producers). In business since August 1999, the company markets mostly to a consumer audience and makes its money through banner ads, premium listings, etc. EMBANET 1051 McNicoll Avenue Toronto, ON M1W 3W6 Canada T 800/572-7558 F 416/494-1891 WWW.EMBANET.COM [services] [hosting] [instructional design] Embanet helps its clients put content into a Web-ready format, using software created by its partners (including Blackboard, WebCt, Centrinity, and others). Services offered include course development, instructional design, project management, instructor training, hosting, help desk, etc. The company states that it has close to 400 clients in higher education and has served more than one million students. EMBARK 111 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94107 T 415/615-1500 F 415/615-1701 WWW.EMBARK.COM [services] Embark, which provides Web-based student recruiting and applications-processing services, has been purchased by The Princeton Review. The Embark Web site will continue to operate until fall 2002, at which point, it will be moved to www.review.com. EPAZZ INC 474 N. Lake Shore Drive, Suite 5501 Chicago, IL 80611 T 312/245-0699 F 312/896-5922 WWW.EPAZZ.NET [portal] [learning management/authoring tool] At press time, Epazz had just officially launched. The company provides a portal with course management features. It is said to integrate with 200 different LMS, ERP, and content-creation platforms. ESOCRATES 905 Harrison Street, Suite 120 Allentown, PA 18103 T 800/469-0684 WWW.ESOCRATES.COM [course aggregator] [portal] [learning management/authoring tool] [hosting] [instructional design] eSocrates, like its most direct competitor, eCollege, offers hosted software and services For creating a campus-wide or smaller-scale e-learning program that accommodates both campus-based and distance students. Proprietary LMS provides: syllabus, posting of multimedia files, communication tools, polling tools, student tracking and registration, electronic and tuition payment. In the past year, the company has greatly expanded its activities in the corporate market, to a point where corporate clients now make up half of the sales. To take advantage of the change, eSocrates has begun helping its higher ed clients to market courses to eSocrates corporate clients. Additional services: instructional design, Web site development, integration, faculty training. EWEBUNIVERSITY 1735 North First Street, Suite 302 San Jose, CA 95112 T 408/441-2730 F 408/441-7840 WWW.EWEBUNIVERSITY.COM [administrative information/management system] [portal] [course aggregator] [learning management/authoring tool] [electronic library/publisher] [hosting] [instructional design] The company's software platform, content library, content creation tools, and knowledge management systems are built for ease of use, say spokespeople, as well as rapid deployment within legacy systems or on a stand-alone basis. eWebUniversity provides higher education institutions with plug-and-play modules designed to create virtual campus communities that include a branded front-end portal, as well as online registration and payment capabilities. Clients include San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. State University, and California State Universities at Cat Poly, San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. and Dominguez Hills.
EXSTREAM SOLUTIONS 770 Broadway, Second Floor New York, NY 10003 T 646/495-6300 F 646/495-6299 WWW.EXSTREAMSOLUTIONS.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [services] Exstream offers a platform for the delivery of live and on-demand content, with a focus on streaming multimedia. The company's CNS See Continuous net settlement. CNS See continuous net settlement (CNS). provides tools for assembling multimedia files into courses, and for broadcasting live video. Its LMS provides campus-wide management of courses including registration, tracking, administration; content authoring tools; digital rights management. FATHOM 330 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10001 T 877/731-6941 WWW.FATHOM.COM [course aggregator] [hosting] Founded by Columbia University, Fathom is an online course aggregator and distributor, serving lifelong learners, professionals, and for-credit students. Content consists of online courses and seminars from Fathom's member institutions and others, plus lectures, interviews, articles, performances, and exhibits by faculty, researchers and curators from member institutions (a group that includes the British Museum British Museum, the national repository in London for treasures in science and art. Located in the Bloomsbury section of the city, it has departments of antiquities, prints and drawings, coins and medals, and ethnography. , the American Film Institute American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase , the University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. , among others). Nonmember content partners include the UCLA Extension, Michigan State University Michigan State University, at East Lansing; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855. It opened in 1857 as Michigan Agricultural College, the first state agricultural college. , and Virginia Tech. Fathom has been working with organizations, including AARP AARP, a nonprofit, nonpartisan national organization dedicated to "enriching the experience of aging"; membership is open to people age 50 or older. Founded in 1958 by Ethel Percy Andrus as American Association of Retired Persons, AARP now has over 30 million , to develop custom educational channels for their memberships. FTKNOWLEDGE 1330 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10019 T 212/641-6616 F 212/641-6309 WWW.FTKNOWLEDGE.COM [course aggregator] [hosting] [instructional design] FTKnowledge, a subsidiary of U.K.-based media company Pearson, operates four basic business units specializing in business, management, and financial training for corporations. The "FT" in FTKnowledge stands for Financial Times--the leading British business publication. FTKnowledge Executive Education, one of the four units, partners with three business schools (INSEAD, the Wharton School, and the University of Michigan Business School) to produce self-paced online courses and videos for executive-level education. FTKnowledge also provides online course materials to U.S.-based virtual university Excelsior College Excelsior College, a member of the University of the State of New York, is a private college in Albany, New York offering associate, bachelors and masters degree programs in Business, Technology, Liberal Arts, Health Sciences, and Nursing. . FUTUREU 529 Arkansas Street San Francisco, CA 94107 T 415/824-7726 F 415/824-2651 WWW.FUTUREU.COM [services] FutureU has a team of more than 50 consultants with backgrounds in business development, education, communications, and technology. The company offers a full range of consulting and training services in e-learning, including standalone courses for students, faculty, and administrators. Academic clients include Cal State U, Hayward; Interamerican U of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. ; U of Phoenix; and Merced College. GEMINI LEARNING SYSTEMS 736 8th Avenue SW, Suite 1100 Calgary, AB T2P 1H4 Canada T 866/499-9543 WWW.GEMINI.COM [portal] [learning management/authoring tool] [services] [hosting] [instructional design] Gemini Learning is an instructional design and software development company that helps clients repurpose To change the media format; for example, to go from print to online. course content into modular, asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. courseware, using proprietary authoring and management software. Professors can download free template-based course authoring toots toots n. Slang Babe; sweetie. [Perhaps short for tootsie.] . Other services: ASP hosting, development of multimedia modules, and custom portal See personal portal. development, installation of its software on university servers, and integration with university administrative platforms. GLOBAL EDUCATION NETWORK 152 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 T 212/489-6300 F 212/489-7200 WWW.GEN.COM [course aggregator] [hosting] [instructional design] Launched by Williams College Williams College, at Williamstown, Mass.; coeducational; chartered 1785, opened as a free school 1791, became a college 1793, named for Ephraim Williams. The Williams campus, noted for its fine old buildings, includes West College (1790), the Van Rensselaer Manor professor Mark Taylor People known as Mark Taylor include:
An investor who provides capital to either start-up ventures or support small companies who wish to expand but do not have access to public funding. Notes: Venture capitalists usually expect higher returns for the additional risks taken. Herbert Allen, Global Education Network intends to offer high-quality distance ed courses created by faculty at leading institutions--functioning as a kind of UNext of the liberal arts. Its first three courses (Alexander the Great, Calculus, and Media) are being offered through participating colleges, community colleges, and alumni associations. Six more courses are expected to be added this year, and Global expects to begin offering courses to the general public sometime this spring. HALF-BAKED SOFTWARE INC PO Box 3075, STN CSC Victoria, BE V8W 3W2 Canada T 250/721-6500 F 250/721-6497 WWW.HALFBAKEDSOFTWARE.COM [learning management/authoring tool] Half-Baked Software, a company partially owned by the University of Victoria, develops and licenses two types of software. One, called Hot Potatoes The Hot Potatoes software suite includes five applications that can create exercises for the World Wide Web. The applications are JCloze, JCross, JMatch, JMix and JQuiz. There is also a sixth application called The Masher, that will compile all the Hot Potatoes exercises into one , is for the creation of Web-based quizzes; the other, Quandary, is for thought exercises or "action mazes" (it was originally developed for use in philosophy courses). The company recently added some clip art A set of canned images used to illustrate word processing and desktop publishing documents. for use in Quandary. Courses and assessments created with both can be uploaded into a course Web page, and Hot Potatoes assessments may be exported into a WebCT database for storage and retrieval. The company will customize or develop the features and interfaces of both products to suit customer requests. Hot Potatoes is free to not-for-profit institutions that make courses made with the software freely available on the Web. HORIZONLIVE 520 8th Avenue, 23rd Floor New York, NY 10018 T 212/533-1775 F 212/533-6041 WWW.HORIZONLIVE.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [hosting] HorizonLive develops software for delivery of streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. and video and for two-way audio communication. The company states that it has more than 100 clients in higher education, most of them using two-way audio. The software has tools for online chat, whiteboard, "breakout rooms," potting, and broadcast of PowerPoint slides. The system is scalable to up to 2,000 users and integrates with Click2Learn, WebCT, and Blackboard. (The company can perform integration with other platforms.) Available on an ASP or license basis. INFINET SOLUTIONS 1425 East Busch Parkway Buffalo Grove, IL 60089 T 847/821-3850 WWW.INFINET-INC.COM [services] InfiNet provides products and services that let campuses link and Web-enable existing databases and computer systems. The company's Quikconnect simultaneously connects multiple data sources; adapters are available for many widely used mainframe/legacy systems, as well as popular ERP, SIS, and financial systems. Another product, Quikpay, provides a single platform for e-commerce, e-billing, and e-payments. The company's most recent offerings, collected under the name of Campus Web Connect, provide back-office integration, permit schools to conduct Title IV entrance and exit interviews online, and centralize non-student billing. Recent clients include the University of Illinois system The University of Illinois is a system of public universities in Illinois consisting of three campuses: Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, and Springfield. B. Joseph White is the current president of the University of Illinois system. , the University of Kansas The University of Kansas (often referred to as KU or just Kansas) is an institution of higher learning in Lawrence, Kansas. The main campus resides atop Mount Oread. , Columbia University, Southern Christian University Southern Christian University may refer to:
The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) is a component of the University of Texas System located in Galveston, Texas, about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of downtown Houston. , and DeVry. INTERPRETIVE SOFTWARE INC 1932 Arlington Boulevard, Suite 107 Charlottesville, VA 22903 T 434/979-0245 F 434/979-2454 WWW.INTERPRETIVE.COM [course aggregator] [instructional design] Interpretive Software focuses on developing and marketing proprietary business simulations designed to be incorporated into undergraduate and graduate courses. The company will develop custom simulations for clients, but purchases copyright to any material it agrees to produce. Because simulations take as long as two years to produce, the company takes on a limited number of projects and is highly selective about clients. INTRALEARN SOFTWARE CORPORATION 155B Otis Street Northboro, MA 01532 T 508/393-2277 F 508/393-6841 WWW.INTRALEARN.COM [learning management/authoring tool] This software company offers pre-packaged LMS and course authoring software. All sales are through resellers, service providers, and software providers and ASPs such as Embanet and Connected Learning. Authoring tools are available in template-based and non-templated versions. The IntraLearn LMS allows multiple ports to be maintained on the same server. The software is available in several languages. Recent clients include UMass-Lowell and Berklee School of Music. JENZABAR 17 Sellers Street Cambridge, MA 02139 T 617/492-9099 F 617/492-9081 WWW.JENZABAR.COM [administrative information/management system] A company representative states that Jenzabar has backed away from the portal and course management software business (though it continues to support its current portal customers). The company is now focusing on back-end administrative software. JONESKNOWLEDGE.COM 9697 East Mineral Avenue Englewood, CO 80112 T 888/453-5663 F 303/784-8957 WWW.JONESKNOWLEDGE.COM [electronic library/publisher] [portal] [learning management/authoring tool] [services] [hosting] JonesKnowledge consists of three separate businesses: 1) an online university; 2) an e-Library; and 3) Jones E-education, a scalable, hosted course management and delivery system, with applications in higher education, K-12, and corporate training. New developments this year: "rapid course development" templates. The library is now offering some resources in unbundled form rather than as a package deal And the company is making the library's popular career resources available free on the Jones International University Web site. LEARNFRAME 12637 South 265 West #300, P0 Box 1409 Draper, UT 84020-1409 T 800/738-9800 F 801/523-8012 WWW.LEARNFRAME.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [services] [hosting] Learnframe offers a proprietary course management system designed to make it easy to manage courseware from multiple outside sources. The company is most active in the corporate training sector but has a number of academic clients, including Michigan Virtual University Michigan Virtual University (MVU) is a non-profit group formed in 1998 to manage e-learning systems and career services for K-12 students exclusively for Michigan residents. Services MVU runs:
LOTUS SOFTWARE IBM Software Group One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 T 617/577-8500 WWW.LOTUS.COM [learning management/authoring tool] IBM's Lotus--one of the earliest players in e-Learning--developed a learning management system it calls LearningSpace. This scalable system consists of an open platform that allows faculty to assemble multimedia files and text, to create course modules. It includes student tracking and reporting features as well as e-mail, chat, and discussion forums. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the company, Lotus 5.0 (its most recent version) includes tools for recording and replaying live classroom sessions, live breakout sessions, document sharing, and automatic e-mail notification. Lotus says that its platform supports content from vendors including Smartforce, Skillsoft, and NETg. MACROMEDIA 600 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 T 415/252-2000 F 415/626-0554 WWW.MACROMEDIA.COM [learning management/authoring tool] Software company Macromedia develops what may be the most widely used tools for creating reusable learning objects and graphics. The company e-learning tools include Authorware (for creating objects, entering text, and creating assessments), Dreamweaver (for creating Web sites), and Flash (for creating Web graphics). Authorware includes features for student tracking and integration with other learning management systems. MCGRAW-HILL EDUCATION PO Box 182605, Columbus, OH 43218-2605 T 800/338-3987 F 614/759-3644 WWW.MHHE.COM/SOLUTIONS [electronic library/publisher] [learning management/authoring tool] McGraw-Hill markets online electronic content to supplement its textbooks. The company has a number of electronic services. They include PageOut, a platform for delivery of McGraw-Hill electronic content, which also allows professors to post links and text, and maintain a class discussion board. Gradesummit, an assessment tool, comes with a database of questions and allows a professor to both administer online quizzes Online quizzes are quizzes that are published on the internet and are generally for entertainment purposes. Introduction Online quizzes are a popular form of entertainment for web surfers. and record student progress. (Students can view their performance record in relation to rest of class.) ALEKS, an automated online math tutor, has a database of exercises, and analyzes student performance to see what material should be covered. PowerWeb, a news site, carries course-specific and timely articles updated daily. The company also maintains a coursepack service called Primis, and an e-textbook service. MGEN INC 200 Foxborough Boulevard, Suite 400 Foxborough, MA 02035 T 508/549-0970 F 508/549-0979 WWW.MGEN.COM [portal] [learning management/authoring tool] mGen focuses on courseware development. Its main products are course and learning management platforms (including centralization of course management, communication, registration and scheduling, tuition payment, and student grades). Course management allows for delivery of asynchronous content as well as real-time streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. . The company's new platform includes a system that acts like an info portal for the creation and delivery of internal campus announcements and outside news sources, as well as a feature that allows for moderation of online discussions. MINDEDGE 100 Tower Office Park, Suite M Woburn, MA 01801 T 781/937-9200 F 783/937-9077 WWW.MINDEDGE.COM [course aggregator] [services] MindEdge acts as a clearinghouse for higher ed courses created by universities (both for-profit and nonprofit) and education companies. The company currently plans to allow for real-time delivery of course data so that whenever course data is updated in a school database, it is automatically updated in the MindEdge database as well. End users are mostly corporations. MindEdge was awarded the contract to manage course information for eArmy University. NETG 2nd floor, 1751 West Diehl Road Naperville, IL 60563-9099 T 630/369-3000 WWW.NETG.COM [electronic library/publisher] [learning management/authoring tool] NETg is a company that designs (pedagogically ped·a·gog·ic also ped·a·gog·i·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of pedagogy. 2. Characterized by pedantic formality: a haughty, pedagogic manner. and technically) Web-based content in the areas of IT, business education, and professional soft skills. The content is marketed to both business and academia. All content is packaged as reusable, self-contained learning objects. Content and LMS are available through an ASP service, as software installed on school server, or via CD-ROM that can be distributed to students. NETg was acquired by Thomson Corporation. NETLIBRARY 3080 Center Green Drive, Boulder, CO 80301 T 303/415-2548 WWW.NETLIBRARY.COM [electronic library/publisher] Electronic book distributor NetLibrary provides texts to libraries in a way that mimics the traditional paper-and-ink book business. Libraries purchase "copies" of texts in electronic form. The books, hosted on NetLibrary servers, are "owned" by the library for the duration of its contract, and can be accessed through links on the library's Web page. The company has 40,000 titles from a variety of publishers, and sells either on an individual title basis or in collections. NetLibrary was recently acquired by the Online Computer Library Center. NEXTED 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. #700 Washington, DC 20004 T 202/789-0368 F 202/789-7349 WWW.NEXTED.COM [course aggregator] [services] [hosting] [instructional design] NextEd, headquartered in Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , works with private and public education institutions, corporations, professional associations, and training companies in Hong Kong This is a list of companies from Hong Kong.
NOW INTERNATIONAL 33 East 8th Ave, Suite 201 Vancouver, BC V5T 1R5 Canada T 604/873-9442 F 604/873-9462 WWW.NOWINTERNATIONAL.COM [electronic library/publisher] [learning management/authoring tool] [instructional design] The company licenses software for creating and delivering courses, and provides services in instructional design and course creation. Now International's "learning platform" has four components: one for assembling electronic files (audio, video, text, whiteboard) into a compressed file or module; one for recording audio and video; one for editing audio and video recordings into a complete presentation; and one for broadcasting content. The company also operates the NowCollege.com Web site, which offers LSAT LSAT abbr. Law School Admissions Test LSAT (US) n abbr (= Law School Admissions Test) → Zulassungsprüfung für juristische Hochschulen prep courses, math courses, etc. OEFFINGERS.COM 11508 Gunfight, Austin, TX 78748 T 512/669-4128 F 512/669-4128 WWW.OEFFINGERS.COM [services] [instructional design] Oeffingers designs and produces courses, in addition to flash or video vignettes, simulations, togas, graphic materials, etc. It also provides teacher training and consultation on incorporating new media in instruction. ONLINELEARNING.NET 12975 Coral Tree Place Los Angeles, CA 90066 T 800/784-8436 F 310/301-7510 WWW.ONLINELEARNING.NET [course aggregator] [services] [hosting] Online Learning--after its acquisition by Sylvan sylvan emanating from or pertaining to woods. See also sylvatic. Learning's Online Higher Education division--will continue in its original business of managing and marketing continuing and professional education courses created by higher ed institutions and others. The company will also provide technical infrastructure for Sylvan's other companies, including Canter canter a gallop at an easy pace. The rhythm is three-time, first one hind, then the opposite hind with the diagonal fore, then the opposite fore, the leading limb. collected canter Associates and Walden University Walden University is a private, for-profit, specialized distance learning institution of higher learning. Headquartered in the Mills District in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walden University embraces a post-baccalaureate educational system. . Additional services: hosting, tech support, and "concierge service," in which an online learning tech support person is assigned to work with students and instructors throughout a course. OUTLOOK INTERACTIVE 4701 Jackson Street Denver, CO 80216 T 303/336-9669 F 303/377-1801 WWW.OUTLOOKINTERACTIVE.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [hosting] [instructional design] Outlook Interactive offers instructional design and develops both instructor-led and self-paced courses. The company will handle any discipline, but currently does most of its business in IT and business courseware. Additionally, Outlook Interactive will develop multimedia objects for incorporation into full courses or for use alone. The company also will host and deliver its clients' courses, license its proprietary course management system to customers, and can distribute clients" courses through its distribution partners. PEARSON EDUCATION 1 Lake Street Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 T 201/236-7000 WWW.PEARSONED.COM [electronic library/publisher] [services] [hosting] Pearson Education Pearson Education is an international publisher of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools. Pearson Education is part of Pearson PLC. It is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. is a division of Pearson, the media company that also owns the Financial Times and Penguin publishing. It services the e-learning market through two of its divisions, Pearson Higher Education Group and NCS (Network Call Signaling) CableLabs version of MGCP. See MGCP/MEGACO. NCS - Network Computing System: Apollo's RPC system used by DEC and Hewlett-Packard.The protocol has been adopted by OSF. Pearson. The Higher Education Group offers electronic content to accompany Pearson textbooks, access to course management tools, and custom publishing services. NCS Pearson provides a number of services for the online administration of student data. These services include: online application and data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a , electronic authentication Electronic authentication (E-authentication) is the process of establishing confidence in user identities electronically presented to an information system. E-authentication presents a technical challenge when this process involves the remote authentication of individual people software for student loan processing, distribution of federal financial aid information, support in processing student data for grant programs, student loan processing, electronic academic transcript services, and management and reporting of student data as required by the Taxpayer Relief Act. Other services more specific to e-learning include adult education courseware for GED GED abbr. 1. general equivalency diploma 2. general educational development GED (US) n abbr (Scol) (= general educational development) → and ESL (1) An earlier family of client/server development tools for Windows and OS/2 from Ardent Software (formerly VMARK). It was originally developed by Easel Corporation, which was acquired by VMARK. courses and online curriculum for basic college courses in math and science. Pearson Education also offers various online IT certification and professional licensure and certification tests and offers services for reading scannable documents. PEOPLESOFT 4460 Hacienda Drive Pleasanton, CA 94588 T 888/773-8277 WWW.PEOPLESOFT.COM [administrative information/management system] [portal] Peoplesoft's enterprise system offers numerous features specific to higher education, including online admissions and financial aid applications, academic advisement Deliberation; consultation. A court takes a case under advisement after it has heard the arguments made by the counsel of opposing sides in the lawsuit but before it renders its decision. ADVISEMENT. , student financials, student demographics, donor relations, etc. New this year: a portal product, integratable with Blackboard or WebCT and including secure login Signing in and gaining access to a network server, Web server or other computer system. The process (the noun) is a "login" or "logon," while the act of doing it (the verb) is to "log in" or to "log on. , customizable home pages, controlled delivery of information such as grades, announcements, tuition information, etc. PROMETRIC 1000 Lancaster Street Baltimore, MD 21202 T 443/751-4800 WWW.PROMETRIC.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [services] [hosting] Prometric, now owned by Thomson Corporation, provides technology-based testing services primarily in the technology certification, professional licensing and certification, and academic markets. Services include test preparation, test results processing, consulting, and marketing. The company delivers computer versions of the GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) A tunneling protocol developed by Cisco that allows network layer packets to contain packets from a different protocol. It is widely used to tunnel protocols inside IP packets for virtual private networks (VPNs). , the GMAT GMAT abbr. 1. Graduate Management Admission Test 2. Greenwich Mean Astronomical Time GMAT n abbr (US) (= Graduate Management Admissions Test) → , and other exams, and administers testing programs for Johns Hopkins University, Regents College, and others. Also offers Prometric Prime, a tool for authoring, publishing, and delivering online tests. QUESTIA MEDIA 3 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1700 Houston, TX 77046 T 713/439-0801 WWW.QUESTIA.COM [electronic library/publisher] Questia is a digital library, which offers access to books in the liberal arts. It markets primarily to consumers, and the service includes free full-text searching, tools for creating footnotes and bibliographies, note-taking capability, etc. QUESTIONMARK 5 Hillandale Avenue, Stamford, CT 06902-2800 T 203/425-2400 F 203/358-3944 WWW.QUESTIONMARK.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [services] [hosting] Questionmark develops software For authoring and delivering computer-based and online tests. Version 3, released last fall, includes many new features: skills-gap analysis, meta-tagging of questions for identification based on level of difficulty, new question "wizards" for drag-and-drop creation, matching questions, likert scale Likert scale A subjective scoring system that allows a person being surveyed to quantify likes and preferences on a 5-point scale, with 1 being the least important, relevant, interesting, most ho-hum, or other, and 5 being most excellent, yeehah important, etc questions; and the ability to incorporate Macromedia Flash functions in questions. QUISIC 12910 Culver Boulevard, Suite A Los Angeles, CA 90066 T 310/827-4464 F 310/823-7036 WWW.QUISIC.COM [course aggregator] [instructional design] Quisic, formerly called University Access, has a business that is two-fold: it designs and markets instructor-led business education courses using content from corporations and institutions of higher learning higher learning n. Education or academic accomplishment at the college or university level. (among their content partners is the Tuck School of Business The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration is the business school of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Founded in 1900, Tuck is the oldest graduate school of business in the world. at Dartmouth). Courses are marketed B-to-B to corporations throughout the United States, for executive education. The company no longer sells courses directly into the academic market (nor does it produce courses specifically for the academic market). However, it is still marketing its back-catalog of academic courses through its distribution partners PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, Adult Learning Service, RMI (Remote Method Invocation) A standard from Sun for distributed objects written in Java. RMI is a remote procedure call (RPC), which allows Java objects (software components) stored in the network to be run remotely. Media, and FTKnowledge. READYGO INC 918 North Rengstorff Avenue, Suite B Mountain View, CA 94043 T 888/732-3946 F 650/960-2958 WWW.READYGO.COM [learning management/authoring tool] ReadyGo's Web Course Builder is a templated course authoring tool. Courses are built like PowerPoint presentations; they can be organized into chapters, and can include any kind of multimedia file that is viewable in a browser. An optional module called Server Side Testing stores student registration information and grades and can be integrated with a campus ERP. The company states that ReadyGo tools can be posted to any CMS/LMS that is IMS-, SCORM-, or AICC-compliant. SABA 2400 Bridge Parkway Redwood Shores, CA 94065-1166 T 877/722-2101 WWW.SABA.COM [electronic library/publisher] [learning management/authoring tool] [hosting] Saba's learning management platforms are designed to let users compile various sorts of learning objects into a single database, to assemble the objects into courses, and to deliver the courses to students. The Saba-hosted, scalable system can incorporate all types of multimedia files. The company also maintains an online library of client-created content, available for licensing by users. The company's higher education clients include St. Petersburg Community College and Singapore Institute of Management The Singapore Institute of Management (Abbreviation: SIM . SCOTTISH KNOWLEDGE 1st Floor, 6-8 Wemyss Place Edinburgh EH3 6DH, Scotland, UK T 44(0) 131 625 2600 F 44(0) 131 625 2609 WWW.SCOTTISHKNOWLEDGE.COM [course aggregator] Founded by Scotland's 14 universities, Scottish Knowledge offers distance courses (both electronic and traditional) from over 30 universities and colleges in Scotland, UK, United States, and Australia. Subject areas include Business, Engineering, Environmental Science, IT, Law, Medicine, and Health SCT 4 Country View Road Malvern, PA 19355 T 800/223-7036 F 610/647-5930 WWW.SCT.COM [administrative information/management system] SCT provides Banner, an Oracle-based suite of software applications for student information, alumni development, human resources, financial aid, faculty and advisers, finance, etc. It partners with WebCT and Campus Pipeline to provide the Connected Learning Solution, a suite of products that integrates course management, portal and back office. In January, the company acquired Sallie Mae's student information systems business. It also acquired Applied Business Technologies (ABT ABT About ABT Abteilung (German: Department) ABT Abbott Laboratories (stock symbol) ABT American Ballet Theatre ABT Associação Brasileira de Telemarketing ABT Abort ABT Availability Based Tariff ), developer of the Microsoft-based PowerCampus student and administrative information system. SILICON CHALK #200 1636 West 2nd Avenue Vancouver, British Columbia Canada V6J 1H4 T 604/732-5660 F 604/732-5407 WWW.SILICON-CHALK.COM [learning management/authoring tool] Silicon Chalk's Shared Learning and Teaching Environment (SLATE) is designed for five instruction employing computers. Slate manages broadcast of materials to student computers. It includes note-taking, whiteboard, quizzes, polling, messaging, hand raising and instructor control. All materials, including audio, can be recorded on student computers for later playback. SLATE is expected to ship in May. SKILLSOFT 20 Industrial Park Drive Nashua, NH 03062 T 877/631-7405 F 603/324-3009 WWW.SKILLSOFT.COM [electronic library/publisher] Skillsoft markets e-learning solutions to corporate clients. It has a library of more than 1,300 courses and 12,000 learning objects, plus online access to more than 1,900 books in the fields of Business and IT. Skillsoft's materials are part of credit and noncredit non·cred·it adj. Of, relating to, or constituting an educational course that does not offer credit toward an academic degree. programs at a number of colleges and universities. The company has articulation agreements with the University of Phoenix, Strayer University Strayer University, formerly Strayer College of Washington, D. C., is a private, for-profit educational institution. The Strayer University campuses are owned by Strayer Education, Inc., headquartered in Arlington, VA. Strayer Education, Inc. , and American Military University American Military University (AMU) is a private, for profit online university and a member institution of the American Public University System. It is one of the oldest and largest online universities. . SMARTFORCE 900 Chesapeake Drive, Redwood City, CA 94063 T 650/817-5900 F 800/817-5902 WWW.SMARTFORCE.COM [electronic library/publisher] [learning management/authoring tool] [services] [hosting] [instructional design] Smartforce is a content and LMS developer primarily serving the corporate market. The company creates learning content in information technology; business skills; interpersonal skills "Interpersonal skills" refers to mental and communicative algorithms applied during social communications and interactions in order to reach certain effects or results. The term "interpersonal skills" is used often in business contexts to refer to the measure of a person's ability ;, call center; healthcare, environmental health and safety; desktop skills; and e-business. It advises clients on program strategy and implementation, and offers systems integration, customization of LMS Platform, and hosting. The company recently codeveloped a bachelor's degree program in Business Administration with Kansas State University Kansas State University, main campus at Manhattan; coeducational; land-grant and state supported; chartered and opened 1863. There is an additional campus at Salina. Among the university's research facilities are the J. R. School of Business. KSU (Key Service Unit) The cabinet that contains the electronics for a key telephone system. See key telephone system. is offering it to their own students as part of a pilot program, and some content will be offered in module form to Smartforce corporate customers. SMARTHINKING 1819 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 810 Washington, DC 20006 T 888/430-7429 F 202/543-5589 WWW.SMARTHINKING.COM [services] Smarthinking provides live online tutoring Online tutoring refers to the process by which knowledge is imparted from a tutor, knowledge provider or expert to a student or knowledge recipient over the Internet. Online tutoring has been around almost as long as the Internet and takes the following form: in core subjects for colleges and universities, high schools, publishers, and government. Since last year, the company has added Spanish and chemistry to the list of subjects it covers (which includes Math, Statistics, Writing, Grammar, Accounting, and Economics). The company will also host schools' own tutoring programs using its online whiteboard technology. SOFTWARE SECURE 763 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 7 Cambridge, MA 02139 T 617/354-7464 F 617/354-7466 WWW.SOFTWARESECURE.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [services] Software Secure focuses on the security side of computer-based testing Computer-based testing (CBT), also called e-exam, computerized testing and computer-administered testing, is a method of administering tests in which the responses are electronically recorded, assessed, or both. . It has three products: Securexam Student lets students use Word and Excel for exams by blocking use of Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. while locking others out. TEGRITY 2005 Hamilton Ave., #221 San Jose, CA 95125 T 800/411-0579 F 408/369-5155 WWW.TEGRITY.COM [learning management/authoring tool] Tegrity develops hardware and course authoring software that enable a professor to record course content, edit it, and distribute it through streaming media or CD-ROM. The system has three parts: the "creation studio" (like a small A/V (1) (Audio/Video) Refers to equipment and applications that deal with sound and sight. The A/V world includes microphones, tape recorders, audio mixers, still and video cameras, film projectors, slide projectors, VCRs, CD and DVD players/recorders, amplifiers and cart that professors can roll into lecture rooms; it includes equipment to record video, write on whiteboard, and add computer files), a server to store and deliver content, and a browser-based viewer. The company states that content created with its system is compatible with Blackboard and WebCT. TELESTRAINING Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre 515 West Hastings St., 6th Floor Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3 T 604/806-5156 F 604/806-5180 WWW.TELESTRAINING.COM [learning management/authoring tool] A spin-off of Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University, main campus at Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; provincially supported; coeducational; chartered 1963, opened 1965. The Harbour Centre campus in downtown Vancouver opened in 1989. , TelesTraining develops and licenses a template-based course-authoring software package called eTrainerCB Course Builder. The company offers an eight-week online course in designing and delivering Web-based education and provides course-development services. TelesTraining authoring tools are integratable with Virtual Learning Environment's Virtual U software. THOMSON LEARNING Thomson Corp PO Box 6904 Florence, KY 41022-6904 T 800/354-9706 F 800/487-8488 WWW.THOMSON.COM [electronic library/publisher] [learning management/authoring tool] Educational publisher Thomson Corporation produces online content in areas such as Business and Information Technology for the continuing education industry. The company also offers a wide selection of electronic content to supplement its college textbooks. Among its numerous subsidiaries are NETg and Prometric. Additionally, Thomson Corporation offers services for custom textbook publishing. The company produces course management tools for use with its electronic materials, and took a major step into the global higher education market last year when it agreed to produce instructional materials for the virtual university Universitas 21. TIMECRUISER COMPUTING CORPORATION 9 Law Drive, Fairfield, NJ 07004 T 973/244-7856 F 973/244-7859 WWW.CAPUSCRUISER.COM [postal] [learning management/authoring tool] [hosting] Timecruiser's Campuscruiser portal product includes e-mail, group calendars, message boards, file transfer, course management features, etc. Company partners with Datatel, Sun, and Eduprise. Clients include Widener University Widener University is a private, coeducational university located in Chester, Pennsylvania. Its main campus sits on 108 acres (.44 km²), just 14 miles south of Philadelphia. , and Albertus Magnus College Albertus Magnus College is a small private liberal arts college in New Haven, Connecticut. It is located about two miles from the central campus of Yale University in a residential area near the border with Hamden. The area, on Prospect Street just above Edgerton Park. . TRIVANTIS CORPORATION 311 Elm Street, Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45202 T 877/929-0188 F 513/929-0770 WWW.TRIVANTIS.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [instructional design] Trivantis offers authoring software and course development services. Its Lectora Publisher authoring system is designed to let individual educators create and publish multimedia e-learning content directly to the Internet, intranet, or CD-ROM. It comes in versions for PCs, Palm devices, and handhelds. The company also has developed a program for creating CD-ROM and Web-based yearbooks with multimedia content. UCOMPASS.COM 3116 Capital Circle Northeast Tallahassee, FL 32308 T 877/932-3382 F 850/553-9252 WWW.UCOMPASS.COM [postal] [learning management/authoring tool] [hosting] [instructional design] UCompass's course authoring and delivery product, called Educator, provides communications tools (including e-mail and instant messaging), plus content delivery and assessment tools, and front-end tools for registration and administration. The company's Wireless Educator integrates Educator Web-based courses with wireless networks such as the Palm Network, The company also provides support for use of cell-phone messaging and pagers, to deliver targeted information. UNEXT.COM 500 Lake Cook Road, Deerfield, IL 60015-5609 T 877/405-4500 WWW.UNEXT.COM [course aggregator] [hosting] [instructional design] UNext partners with five leading institutions--Columbia Business School, Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. , University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Recruiters also voice a strongly positive opinion of students. According to BusinessWeek's biannual MBA rankings: "Chicago's grads were hands-down favorites in our survey of companies that hire MBAs. , Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). , and the London School of Economics and Political Science--to produce degree and training programs delivered through its Cardean University, mostly to employees of corporate clients. The company recently signed a marketing arrangement with Thomson Enterprise Learning. VANTAGE LEARNING 113 Floral Vale Blvd, Yardley, PA 19067 T 215/579-8390 F 215/579-8391 WWW.VANTAGE.COM [learning management/authoring tool] [hosting] Vantage's IntelliMetric is a system for administering and scoring open-ended essay questions over the Internet. IntelliMetric uses artificial intelligence techniques to automatically score answers, producing test results the company states rival live scorers in accuracy. Clients include the College Board, Edison Schools Edison Schools Inc. is a for-profit company that manages public schools in the United States and the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1992. History Edison Schools was widely hailed at the beginning of the 21st century as the leader in what "school reformers" saw as the , Thompson Learning Company, The Secondary School Achievement Test Board (SSATB SSATB Soprano Soprano Alto Tenor Bass (chorus) ), Thinkwell, and the State of Pennsylvania. IntelliMetric can interface with other Vantage Learning tools for assessment scheduling, registration, delivery, scoring, and reporting or with applications provided by customers or third party vendors. VBRICK SYSTEMS INC 12 Beaumont Road Wallingford, CT 06492 T 203 |