adam.com Powers e-Learning with New Content Package for WebCT.Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 2000 adam.com, Inc. (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 : ADAM), a leading originator Originator A bank, savings and loan, or mortgage banker that initially made a mortgage loan that is part of a pool. Also, an investment bank that has worked with the issuer of a new securities offering from the beginning and is usually appointed manager of the underwriting and integrator (1) In electronics, a device that combines an input with a variable, such as time, and provides an analog output; for example, a watt-hour meter. (2) See systems integrator. of health information, and WebCT, provider of the leading e-Learning environment for 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. , have formed a strategic alliance designed to benefit university-level students and educators around the world. Visitors to WebCT.com, WebCT's e-Learning Hub, now can access detailed health imagery and education products from adam.com. Students and educators can click and view images from some of adam.com's most popular health education products. In addition, WebCT.com's e-Learning Store offers visitors a prominent link to adam.com's educational marketplace, which provides easy access to health and science products, including adam online anatomy anatomy (ənăt`əmē), branch of biology concerned with the study of body structure of various organisms, including humans. Comparative anatomy is concerned with the structural differences of plant and animal forms. (AOA AOA American Optometric Association; American Orthopsychiatric Association; American Osteopathic Association. AOA 1 American Orthopaedic Association 2 American Osteopathic Association, see there ), Interactive Physiology physiology (fĭzēŏl`əjē), study of the normal functioning of animals and plants during life and of the activities by which life is maintained and transmitted. It is based fundamentally on the activities of protoplasm. on the Web (IPweb student) and adam online A+ bundle. WebCT.com offers an extensive selection of adam.com images within its Community Libraries resource area. Topics range from cardiovascular and nervous systems to reproductive anatomy. Educators can incorporate adam.com's detailed illustrations into course materials and students may download the images for study. "Our agreement with WebCT to provide content on WebCT.com represents a milestone in our penetration of the e-Learning marketplace," said Richard Hinrichs, adam.com's Director of eLearning. "Actively used by thousands of teachers at hundreds of institutions worldwide, WebCT.com is the perfect partner for adam.com's interactive content." WebCT.com is higher education's first destination site to offer both teaching and learning resources to a community of peers across discipline and institutional boundaries. More than 69,000 instructors teach 171,000 WebCT courses at colleges and universities in 57 countries. Almost 4.2 million students have seats in an average of 1.9 WebCT courses, indicating the product's widespread deployment at higher education institutions. "We're proud to feature adam.com as one of WebCT.com's "best of breed" resources for college students and teachers," said Carol Vallone, 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 WebCT. "Instructors of anatomy and physiology can now link with WebCT.com to create custom content using adam.com imagery. We think it's an excellent way for educators to reinforce and energize en·er·gize v. en·er·gized, en·er·giz·ing, en·er·giz·es v.tr. 1. To give energy to; activate or invigorate: "His childhood classroom presentations." As part of the syndication See syndication format. agreement, WebCT will distribute AOA and IPWeb Student to its expanding global membership. WebCT and adam.com also have agreed to a revenue-sharing, affiliate e-commerce arrangement as an element of the multi-year contract. Specific terms were not disclosed. "adam.com is honored to join prestigious publishers such as Pearson Education Pearson Education is an international publisher of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools. Pearson Education is part of Pearson PLC. It is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. , McGraw-Hill, and Thomson Learning in partnership with WebCT," said Hinrichs. "Our alliance with WebCT opens new markets, brings us new customers and solidifies adam.com's decade-long leadership as a trusted content provider for higher education." About adam.com For more than a decade, adam.com (NASDAQ: ADAM) has been at the forefront of developing the world's most interactive and engaging health and medical information. Today, through partnerships with companies including Yahoo!, WebMD, Merck-Medco, the National Library of Medicine, and Pearson PLC, adam.com has quickly become the leading creator and distributor of online health and medical content to millions of consumers, professionals and students around the world. adam.com's proprietary content library features a medical encyclopedia encyclopedia, compendium of knowledge, either general (attempting to cover all fields) or specialized (aiming to be comprehensive in a particular field). Encyclopedias and Other Reference Books covering 4,000 diseases and conditions, 40,000 medical illustrations, health education presentations, 3-D image models, virtual "fly-thrus" of the human body, Internet-ready, broadcast-quality animations, and topic-specific health centers. About WebCT WebCT provides the leading e-Learning environment to the higher education marketplace. This robust e-Learning environment integrates WebCT, the most popular course management system in the world and WebCT.com, The e-Learning Hub. WebCT.com is the first higher education destination site to offer both faculty and students online teaching and learning resources to a community of peers across discipline and institutional boundaries. Forward-Looking Statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. Except for historical information, all of the statements, expectations and assumptions contained in this press release are forward-looking statements. These statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or developments to differ materially. Factors that could affect the company's actual results, performance or developments include general economic conditions, development of the Internet as a source of health information, pricing actions taken by competitors, demand for the company's health information, regulatory changes, and other laws that impact how the company conducts its business. Note to Editors: adam.com is a trademark of adam.com. All other products mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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