ADC Telecommunications Launches e-Learning Using click2learn.com Corporate e-Learning Site.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2000 Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. leader provides employees with access to thousands of web-based courses, browser-based authoring and management tools click2learn.com, inc. (Nasdaq:CLKS), a Wired World Company(TM), today announced that ADC Telecommunications ADC Telecommunications (NASDAQ: ADCT) is a communications company located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, a southwest suburb of Minneapolis. History In 1935, Ralph Allison founded ADC Telecommunications in the basement of his south Minneapolis home, inventing ADC's very (Nasdaq:ADCT ADCT Adaptive Discrete Cosine Transform ) has implemented a click2learn.com Corporate e-Learning Site to provide its employees with access to market-leading web-based courses and browser-based tools for course authoring, publishing, and learner management. The click2learn.com Corporate e-Learning Site provides ADC (1) See A/D converter. (2) (Apple Display Connector) A peripheral connector from Apple that combines digital video display, USB and power in one cable. with an outsourced application service provider (ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). ) solution for enterprise e-Learning. ADC's e-Learning site catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. is custom-configured with market-leading courses from click2learn.com's vast catalog of pay-as-you-go e-Learning content as well as with courses developed internally at ADC. The new e-Learning Site has also been configured con·fig·ure tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: with ADC's standard web site look-and-feel and integrated into the company intranet. Using the e-Learning site's authoring tool, ADC employees can create new web-based courses and publish them automatically to the site catalog. Additionally, ADC managers can use the e-Learning site's learning management tools to assign courses to individual students, or groups of students, and track their progress. &uot;ADC Telecommunications is committed to implementing advanced learning technology in order to provide our employees with state-of-the-art programs for their professional development,&uot; said Douglas Ripley, ADC's Director of Corporate Learning and Development. &uot;As we continue to expand our employee base, it is critical to our success to provide proper training throughout the enterprise. As a member of the click2learn.com e-Learning Network, we feel we can provide our employees with the training and guidance necessary to succeed in their personal development and business goals.&uot; &uot;As a telecommunications company See telecom company. operating in today's fast-paced market, it is essential to ADC to keep their employees' knowledge and skills current,&uot; said Kevin Oakes, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of click2learn.com, inc. &uot;click2learn.com is the only company that provides corporations with an instant solution that combines thousands of market-leading courses with robust browser-based authoring and publishing capabilities and sophisticated learning management. We are excited to add ADC Telecommunications as a member of our e-Learning Network.&uot; About click2learn.com's Corporate e-Learning Site The Corporate e-Learning Site instantly connects companies and their employees to the dynamic network of learning resources available through the click2learn.com e-Learning Network. By combining market-leading learning content with browser-based authoring, self-publishing, and learning management tools in an application service provider (ASP) model, a Corporate e-Learning Site provides companies with a high-value, low-risk, outsourced solution for e-Learning. With a Corporate e-Learning Site, all e-Learning content and value-added functionality is priced using a pay-as-you-go model. Corporate e-Learning Sites are hosted and maintained by click2learn.com, and as an ASP solution for e-Learning, every Corporate e-Learning Site can instantly receive each new content and technology enhancement that click2learn.com makes to its e-Learning Network. Companies can select specific items from click2learn.com's course catalog Noun 1. course catalog - a catalog listing the courses offered by a college or university course catalogue, prospectus catalog, catalogue - a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things; "he found it in the Sears catalog" and develop new e-Learning courses to custom-configure their site catalog. The user interface of each Corporate e-Learning Site can also be configured to match the look and feel of a company's existing web site or intranet. The Corporate e-Learning Site is available today through click2learn.com, inc.'s direct sales representatives. Additional information on the Corporate e-Learning Site can be found at www.click2learn.com. About ADC Telecommunications ADC Telecommunications, Inc. is a leading global supplier of network equipment, software and integration services for broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). , multiservice networks that deliver data, video and voice communications over telephone, cable television, Internet, broadcast, wireless and enterprise networks. ADC's broadband, multiservice network solutions enable local access, high-speed transmission and software management of communications services from service providers to consumers and businesses over fiber-optic, copper, coaxial co·ax·i·al adj. Having or mounted on a common axis. coaxial Adjective 1. Electronics (of a cable) transmitting by means of two concentric conductors separated by an insulator and wireless media. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota “Minneapolis” redirects here. For other uses, see Minneapolis (disambiguation). Minneapolis (pronounced IPA: /ˌmɪniˈæpəlɪs/) is the largest city in the U.S. , ADC has approximately 13,500 employees around the world and annual sales of $1.9 billion. ADC's stock is included in the Standard and Poor's Noun 1. Standard and Poor's - a broadly based stock market index Standard and Poor's Index 500 Index. For additional information, visit our Web site at www.adc.com About click2learn.com, inc. click2learn.com, inc. (Nasdaq:CLKS) formerly known as Asymetrix Learning Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASYM) is a leading provider of e-Learning solutions to businesses, government, and educational institutions throughout the world. By developing a powerful and full-featured ASP platform for e-Learning, and partnering with market-leading content publishers, click2learn.com is able to provide customers with instant access to their e-Learning Network. Customers can access thousands of courses, and use browser-based publishing and learning management tools using a custom-configured e-Learning site or by visiting the e-Learning Portal at www.click2learn.com. click2learn.com's enterprise e-Learning initiatives include learning management products (spearheaded by the market leading Ingenium total learning management solution) and web-based authoring software products (featuring the acclaimed ac·claim v. ac·claimed, ac·claim·ing, ac·claims v.tr. 1. To praise enthusiastically and often publicly; applaud. See Synonyms at praise. 2. ToolBook II Instructor and Assistant authoring tools). Each solution is augmented by professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. including award winning custom content development, strategic consulting and integration services. For more information on click2learn.com's e-Learning solutions, call 800/448-6543 or 425/462-0501. click2learn.com, inc. is located on the World Wide Web at www.asymetrix.com and the click2learn.com learning portal is located at www.click2learn.com.click2learn.com, inc. is located on the World Wide Web at www.asymetrix.com and the click2learn.com learning portal is located at www.click2learn.com. click2learn.com, 2MinuteTutors, Ingenium, ToolBook II Instructor and ToolBook II Assistant are trademarks of click2learn.com, inc. All other company and/or product names are the property of their respective owners. |
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