Live eLearning and Collaboration Environment Connects Instructors, Students,
Administrators, and Researchers
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Elluminate, Inc., a leading
provider of live eLearning and web collaboration solutions for the real-time
organization, announced today that Northern Arizona University (NAU) has
implemented Elluminate Live! Academic Edition(TM). The university is using
Elluminate Live! to enable synchronous interaction for online courses,
instructor virtual office hours, real-time collaboration for researchers, and
statewide administrative meetings.
After an extensive, hands-on testing period, NAU selected Elluminate Live!
for its ease of use, low-bandwidth connectivity, multi-platform support,
robust VoIP, WebCT Vista integration, and ADA compliance. Today, the
university uses Elluminate Live! in a wide variety of departments and
disciplines for teaching, learning, meeting, and collaboration. Future plans
for the live eLearning environment include identifying faculty at the
university's six colleges to act as mentors to promote adoption, providing a
stipend to facilitate the development of best practices, and creating a WebCT
Vista shell for every course with Elluminate Live! as one of the available
tools.
"While technology like interactive TV and content management systems
enhance distance learning, people still want human interaction," said Don
Carter, director of the E-Learning Center at NAU. "We recognized that the
time was right to bring in technology that would allow faculty to control
their interactions with each other and with students. Elluminate Live!
enables us to offer a broader solution that can support all campus activities,
not just online courses."
"Elluminate is very pleased to add NAU to its impressive roster of
academic clients at all educational levels," Maurice Heiblum, president of
Elluminate USA, Inc. "Elluminate Live! enables NAU and other institutions to
mirror and enhance the interactivity of a traditional classroom as well as to
provide comprehensive, reliable support for many other educational and
collaborative activities, connecting participants across campus, throughout
the nation, and around the globe."
About Northern Arizona University
Located in Flagstaff, Northern Arizona University serves a combined
undergraduate and graduate enrollment of almost 19,000 students with 1,140
full and part-time faculty on a 738-acre campus. One of the best educational
values available, NAU has earned a solid reputation as a comprehensive
university with a personal touch, including small classes with full-time
instructors who know their students names and a caring and committed staff
whose goal it is to help every student succeed. While the university's
emphasis is undergraduate education, it also offers graduate programs and
research. For more information, visit http://www.nau.edu.
About Elluminate, Inc.
Elluminate, Inc. provides proven, award-winning solutions for real-time
online learning and collaboration that enhance the learning experience,
increase retention and completion rates, and remove traditional barriers to
knowledge. Delivering best-in-class performance, Elluminate features high-
quality VoIP, robust interactive functionality for participants and
moderators, and unique No User Left Behind technology regardless of platform
or Internet connection speed. Elluminate delivers exceptional outcomes with
lower Total Cost of Ownership and higher ROI. Headquartered in Calgary,
Alberta, Canada and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Elluminate is the trusted choice of
prominent corporate and academic organizations such as ADP, DeVry University,
Georgia State University, Johns Hopkins University, PA Department of
Education, Sun Microsystems, T-Mobile, and many more. For more information,
visit http://www.elluminate.com.
Elluminate Live! is a trademark of Elluminate, Inc., Calgary, Alberta,
Canada.
Contacts: Brian Bogie/Christina Guilbert
Schwartz Communications
(781) 684-0770
pr@elluminate.com
SOURCE Elluminate, Inc.
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Related links:
http://www.elluminate.com
http://www.nau.edu
CONTACT:
Brian Bogie or Christina Guilbert both of
Schwartz Communications, +1-781-684-0770, pr@elluminate.com
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