Academic.com Launches; Brings Web's Full Power to Faculty and Students.Business Editors/Education Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 28, 2000 academic.com, higher education's first comprehensive educational learning tool on the Internet, has launched. Some 40 colleges and universities have put their courses online, and will teach their students using academic.com as an aide during the fall term. Three key elements make academic.com, created by Academic Systems, higher education's most powerful and comprehensive tool for harnessing the full potential of the web: 1. academic.com contains ActiveContent(TM) learning modules, an extensive library of more than 300 modular course building blocks covering over 1,500 learning objectives in key general education subject areas. The library is growing as Academic Systems continually con·tin·u·al adj. 1. Recurring regularly or frequently: the continual need to pay the mortgage. 2. adds compelling multimedia content created by faculty experts and instructional designers from varied disciplines. 2. academic.com uses Blackboard (1) See Blackboard Learning System. (2) The traditional classroom presentation board that is written on with chalk and erased with a felt pad. Although originally black, "white" boards and colored chalks are also used. 5(TM) technology to provide a powerful, easy-to-use platform, then adds a series of templates that enables instructors to quickly and easily place existing courses online. Instructors simply point and click to create a customized syllabus A headnote; a short note preceding the text of a reported case that briefly summarizes the rulings of the court on the points decided in the case. The syllabus appears before the text of the opinion. , course calendars and other information, then add rich interactive content from the ActiveContent(TM) library to supplement course sites simply clicking with their mouse. Most instructors can transition their existing courses to an online environment in hours rather than days, without having to develop web-authoring expertise. 3. academic.com offers a complete set of academic and technical services to train faculty and administrators, provides round-the-clock technical support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services , and integrates academic.com into the school's existing technology infrastructure. "academic.com is the only product that offers institutions a comprehensive approach to e-learning," said John Brandon, president of Academic Systems. "With academic.com, students get access to superior content, faculty get the ability to put their courses online quickly and easily, and faculty and administrators get academic and technical support. No one else offers all these services in one package." Ivy Tech IVY TECH Ivy Tech State College (Indiana Vocational Technical College System) State College's 24 Indiana campuses and Valencia Community College's five Florida campuses are among the two-and four-year colleges and universities across the country using academic.com this fall. Other early adopters include Nicholls State University Nicholls State University, founded in 1948, is a public university located in Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA. Nicholls State is part of the University of Louisiana System of universities. Originally called Francis T. in Louisiana, Foothill Community College in Los Altos, California Los Altos (IPA: [lɔs ɑltos]) is a city at the southern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The city is in Santa Clara County, California, United States. , and Estrella Mountain Community College in Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix /ˈfiːˌnɪks/ (English: Phoenix, Navajo: Hoozdo, lit. "the place is hot", Western Apache: Fiinigis) is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. . "I have found academic.com to be tremendously flexible and user-friendly," said Kara Kara (kär`ə), river, c.140 mi (230 km) long, NE European and NW Siberian Russia. It flows N from the N Urals into the Kara Sea, forming part of the traditional border between European and Asian Russia. It is navigable in its lower course. Monroe, Manager of Regional Technology, and computer information systems instructor at Ivy Tech, adding that she put three courses online within three hours. "Transitioning courses to an online environment is so easy with academic.com -- you absolutely do not have to know HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. programming." Today campuses are using academic.com for a mix of distance learning and on-campus courses at early-adopter schools. Some students will use academic.com to brush up to paint, or make clean or bright with a brush; to cleanse or improve; to renew. See also: Brush on skill building in a learning center model; others will use it to enhance their classroom experience; and, finally, many students will use it in a distance learning environment. Academic Systems Corporation, the higher education higher education 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. division of Lightspan, Inc. (Nasdaq:LSPN), has focused on meeting the needs of higher education faculty and students since it was founded in 1992. Its first products were interactive, multimedia instructional programs that offer an enhanced learning environment in mathematics and writing for college students in developmental and entry-level courses. Created in concert with educators, Academic Systems' Interactive Mathematics and Interactive English programs have demonstrated increases in learning and achievement. Academic Systems' networked courses are offered at more than 280 college campuses nationwide and are used by more than 100,000 students. academic.com, Academic Systems' new Web-based product, offers a complete eLearning solution for online general education courses across many disciplines. For more information, visit the Web site at www.academic.com or call 800/694-6850. |
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