Blackboard and Trivantis Announce Building Blocks Partnership.Business Editors/Hi-Tech & Education Writers WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2002 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. Inc., a leading Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the infrastructure company for e-Education, and Trivantis Corporation, a leading provider of authoring and publishing technologies and content development services announced an expanded partnership under which Trivantis will join the Blackboard Building Blocks (B2) program. Additionally, Blackboard will resell re·sell tr.v. re·sold , re·sell·ing, re·sells 1. To sell again. 2. To sell (a product or service) to the public or to an end user, especially as an authorized dealer. Trivantis' Lectora suite of authoring and publishing tools. Blackboard and Trivantis have worked extensively for the past year and demonstrated interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. between the Blackboard Learning System A widely used education system from Blackboard Inc., Washington, D.C. (www.blackboard.com). Part of the company's Blackboard Academic Suite, it includes course management, content authoring, collaborative discussions, virtual classrooms, as well as testing and grading. (TM) and the Lectora Publisher authoring tools, as well as the Palm OS and PocketPC platforms. Using Lectora, educators can create custom curriculum content quickly and easily while on- or off-line. Now clients can purchase from Blackboard an authoring tool that allows them to easily create complex, standards-compliant content for Blackboard course web sites while offline. "At Blackboard, ease-of-use and 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. effectiveness are among our top priorities," said Todd Gibby, general manager of Blackboard. "By working with Trivantis, we are able to offer our clients a best-of-breed authoring tool to help them make their e-Education efforts more efficient and effective. We are excited to provide our clients with the ability to develop great online instructional materials through Trivantis without additional integration costs." The technical interoperability developed through Building Blocks will significantly extend the customization and accessibility options for course content in the Blackboard Learning System. Additionally, both companies' combined commitment to the support of standards and Trivantis' involvement in Blackboard's Building Blocks program ensure that content created in Lectora will run and track in the Blackboard Learning System. Blackboard Building Blocks enables the extension of Blackboard's enterprise course management, community portal, and commerce and access systems. The Blackboard Building Blocks program enables any client, vendor, or partner to integrate external applications, tools, content, and services into the Blackboard e-Education suite. "The Blackboard and Trivantis partnership will lower the threshold to e-learning to universities everywhere," said Jeff Harris
Jeffrey Austin (Jeff) Harris , vice president of marketing at Trivantis. "Educators who want an easy, seamless approach to creating and delivering e-learning curriculum have no barriers to doing it." About Blackboard Inc. Blackboard Inc. was founded to transform the Internet into a powerful environment for teaching and learning. The company offers a complete suite of enterprise software products and services that power a total "e-Education Infrastructure" for schools, colleges, universities and other education providers. Blackboard solutions deliver the promise of the Internet for online teaching and learning, campus communities, auxiliary auxiliary In grammar, a verb that is subordinate to the main lexical verb in a clause. Auxiliaries can convey distinctions of tense, aspect, mood, person, and number. services and integration of Web-enabled student services and back office systems. Blackboard's Learning, Community Portal and Transaction Systems are consistently ranked by industry analysts as the market share and customer satisfaction leaders for thousands of academic institutions and a leading number of the Internet's most popular consumer education sites. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices and staff across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. Please visit www.blackboard.com for more information. About Trivantis Corporation Cincinnati, OH-based Trivantis Corporation provides world-class e-learning authoring and publishing technologies and services that enable the creation and distribution of multimedia content. Trivantis develops authoring tools with near-zero learning curves that provide educators in academia, the business sector, and government the capabilities to create and publish high quality multimedia educational content. Trivantis solutions are designed to help overcome the technical barriers traditionally associated with publishing to the Internet. The Trivantis flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Lectora Publisher Enterprise LMS (Learning Management System) An information system that administers instructor-led and e-learning courses and keeps track of student progress. Used internally by large enterprises for their employees, an LMS can be used to monitor the effectiveness of the Edition, helps subject-matter experts within an organization to start creating multimedia content immediately, collaborate with colleagues and convert content to provide rapid transfer of knowledge across the enterprise so that organizations can shorten (audio, compression) Shorten - A form of lossless audio compression. time to productivity. A version of Lectora Publisher is also available for creating content for the Palm OS and Pocket PC platform. |
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