Bentley College Relies on Live eLearning Software from Centra to Deliver Graduate Programs to Professionals Nationwide.Business/Technology/Education Editors LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2001 Centra (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CTRA CTRA Canadian Therapeutic Recreation Association CTRA College Terrace Residents' Association CTRA Canadian Telecommunications Resellers Alliance CTRA Committee To Restore America ), the world's leading provider of software and ASP services for live eLearning and collaboration, today announced that Bentley College Bentley College is located at 175 Forest Street in Waltham, Massachusetts, 10 miles west of Boston. Founded as a school of accounting and finance in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, Bentley moved to Waltham in 1968 and today is ranked 31 on Business Week's top 100 undergrad in Waltham, Mass., has deployed Centra's virtual classroom software for the delivery of real-time distance education programs. Using Centra, Bentley is making online classes available to graduate students as part of its Master of Science in Personal Financial Planning Financial planning Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against program, as well as the College's graduate program in Taxation, providing new opportunities for accounting, financial planning, and tax practitioners nationwide. "In today's business Today's Business is a show on CNBC that aired in the early morning, 5 to 7AM ET timeslot, hosted by Liz Claman and Bob Sellers, and it was replaced by Wake Up Call on Feb 4, 2002. world, people are short on time and are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a convenient way to continue their educations without sacrificing quality," said Ruth Horwitz, Bentley's Distance Learning Coordinator. "Working with Centra gives Bentley a competitive advantage in the graduate education market. In addition to offering distance MSPFP and MSTaxation programs, we plan to expand our use of Centra with core MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration course offerings in fall 2001 for the convenience of our part-time MBA students." Using Centra's Symposium(TM) virtual classroom software, Bentley's widely recognized graduate program in taxation introduced its first distance learning option in 1999. Through live eLearning, Bentley is able to bring together faculty and working professionals on- and off-campus, allowing them to interact, collaborate, and learn as if they were in the same room. These innovative, Web-based tax courses enable participants to overcome geographical barriers while simultaneously engaging in the same high-caliber lectures and class discussions that they would expect if they were taking place on campus. Software Infrastructure for Live eLearning and Collaboration Already used in over 440 companies and universities worldwide, Centra's Web-based enterprise products and services share a common collaboration framework, and are optimized to address the full range of real-time business interactions necessary to accelerate internal and market-facing business processes. Every product features Centra's hallmark voice-over-IP capabilities, shared online workspace, live 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. , and intuitive user interface to enable live conversation and interaction over low-bandwidth network connections. Centra's products include Centra Symposium for virtual classrooms, Centra Conference(TM) for Web conferencing A videoconferencing session via the Internet. In order to interact with other participants, attendees use either a Web application or an application downloaded into their client machines. and events, and Centra eMeeting(TM) for team collaboration and 1:1 mentoring. About Bentley College Bentley College is committed to providing the most advanced business education possible. Approximately 4,300 undergraduate, 1,400 graduate, and 2,300 executive and professional education students learn in an environment that integrates information technology with a broad business and arts and sciences curriculum, gaining knowledge, interpersonal skills and experience for careers in a global economy. For more information, visit www.bentley.edu. About Centra With over a million users worldwide, Centra is the leading provider of software infrastructure and ASP services for live eLearning and business collaboration. Today hundreds of global organizations have standardized on Centra for the delivery of live eLearning, including Accenture, Century 21, Domino's Pizza, EMC Corporation, ExxonMobil, McKesson HBOC HBOC HBO & Co of Georgia HBOC Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer HBOC Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carrier HBOC Hawke's Bay Orienteering Club (New Zealand) HBOC Hunter Bird Observers Club HBOC Horse Breeders and Owners Conference , Siemens, and Procter & Gamble. Centra supports a vital ecosystem of strategic eLearning partnerships, which include alliances with Microsoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Cisco, Oracle, Saba, Docent, and Global Knowledge. Headquartered in Boston's technology corridor, the Company has sales offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.centra.com. |
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