Centra Joins Blackboard's Building Blocks Initiative to Bring Real-Time eLearning to Schools, Colleges, and Universities Worldwide.Business/Technology Editors INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 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 infrastructure and ASP services for eLearning and real-time collaboration, today announced that they have signed a partnership agreement with 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., the leading software infrastructure company for e-Education, to bring live eLearning capabilities to Blackboard's eLearning platform. The Blackboard Building Blocks program enables any customer, vendor, or partner to integrate external applications, tools, content, and services into the Blackboard e-Education suite. With this partnership, Blackboard customers will be able access Centra's popular virtual classroom and Web meeting software capabilities directly from the Blackboard 5 platform. "Through this partnership with Centra and the Building Blocks program, Blackboard clients can now incorporate critical real-time interaction into their online learning processes," said Stephen Gilfus, Senior Director of Product Strategy and Management at Blackboard Inc. Software Platform for eLearning and Real-Time Collaboration Used by more than 675 companies, government agencies, and universities worldwide, Centra's enterprise products and services are based on CentraOne(TM), a robust and extensible thin-client platform for eLearning and collaboration. By leveraging the core capabilities of CentraOne, Centra is the only company to offer a full range of knowledge delivery and management solutions - from live, voice-enabled virtual classrooms, Web conferences and online meetings to powerful products for content management, personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. eLearning, and standards-compliant authoring - all on a single platform. Through this integrated environment, organizations can increase the overall effectiveness of their eLearning initiatives, targeting the appropriate mix of live and self-paced learning formats and activities for each audience or strategic business task. "This important partnership between Centra and Blackboard, the leading provider of learning solutions for the education market, will allow schools and colleges to extend their participation in the ongoing convergence of technology and education and strengthen their education services," said Alan May Alan Randy May (born January 14, 1965 in Barrhead, Alberta) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player. May began his NHL career when he was signed as a free agent by the Boston Bruins, although he would spend most of his time in the minors. , Vice President of Strategic Alliances for Centra. "Blackboard has a very large and impressive client base, and we look forward to assisting these institutions as they expand their use of online learning in education." About Blackboard Blackboard 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 services and integration of Web-enabled student services and back office systems. Blackboard's two major lines of business, Course & Portal Solutions and Commerce & Access Solutions, 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 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. For more information, visit www.blackboard.com. About Centra With more than 1.7 million users, Centra is the world's leading provider of software infrastructure and ASP services for eLearning and real-time collaboration, including Web meetings and conferences. Today hundreds of global organizations have standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. on Centra, including Century 21, Domino's Pizza For Domino's Pizza in Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the Principality of Monaco, see . Domino's Pizza, LLC (NYSE: DPZ) (LSE: DOM) is an international pizza delivery corporation headquartered just outside Ann Arbor, Michigan, United , EMC Corporation EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is an American Fortune 500 and S&P 500 manufacturer of software and systems for information management and storage. It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA. , McKesson, Nationwide Insurance, Siemens, 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. , and Procter & Gamble. Centra supports a vital ecosystem of strategic partnerships, which include alliances with Microsoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , Cisco, Oracle, HP Europe, and Deloitte Consulting. Headquartered in Boston's technology corridor, the Company has sales offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.centra.com. EDITOR'S NOTE Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : Centra will demonstrate its products for live eLearning and collaboration at Educause 2001 in Indianapolis, IN, October 28-31. Visit booth #108, or call Sharon Dratch at 781-994-1151 to arrange an on-site interview. For a demonstration of the joint Centra/Blackboard B2 solution, visit Blackboard, Inc. in booth #823. |
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