Wimba - Blackboard Integrated e-Learning Solution Expands Educational Opportunities Across Pennsylvania
2008年1月22日 - 11:02PM
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ORLANDO, FL and integrated with a comprehensive suite of
interactive solutions from Wimba, the education technology company
that helps people teach people.
The blendedschools.net courses are developed in the Blackboard
Academic Suite(TM) and with the Wimba Collaboration Suite(TM),
enabling synchronous interaction through video, voice and chat
sessions, as well as asynchronous collaboration via discussion
boards, podcasts and archived classroom lessons.
This comprehensive solution makes it possible for students to
continue learning on their own time and addresses diverse learning
styles. For example, The William Penn School District can now offer
more course choices for students in small rural communities, as
well as better serve special needs students.
"Wimba allows me to reach those students that otherwise we'd
lose," explains Cynthia Hyland, MEd, Distance Educator at William
Penn School District Cyber Academy.
These benefits can now be realized by all K-12 Blackboard
Learning System(TM) clients with the general availability of the
Wimba Collaboration Suite Express. This exclusive offer for
Blackboard's K-12 customers at no additional cost provides turnkey
collaboration between teachers and students to improve student
achievement.
"We're delighted that blendedschools.net is providing our proven
solutions to the K-12 community in Pennsylvania, enabling teachers
and students to benefit from enhanced professional development
opportunities and new methods for meeting the needs of all
learners," said Jessie Woolley-Wilson, President of K-12 at
Blackboard. "We look forward to working with Wimba to help K-12
schools and districts around the country create stronger learning
communities and improve student achievement."
"Blendedschools.net is a perfect example of how technology can
directly impact learning across diverse communities to meet many
different needs," said Tommaso Trionfi, CEO of Wimba. "The
combination of the Wimba and Blackboard solutions provides new ways
to reach and engage students to ensure their success."
Demonstrations of the Blackboard-Wimba offering will be given at
Booth # 719 on the FETC exhibit hall floor. For more details on the
Blackboard-Wimba collaborative learning environment please visit
www.blackboard.com/K12/collaborativelearning.
About Blackboard
Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB) is a leading provider of
enterprise software applications and related services to the
education industry. Founded in 1997, Blackboard enables educational
innovations everywhere by connecting people and technology.
Millions of people use Blackboard everyday at academic institutions
around the globe, including colleges, universities, K-12 schools
and other education providers, as well as textbook publishers and
student-focused merchants that serve education providers and their
students. Blackboard is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with
offices in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.
Blackboard
Educate. Innovate. Everywhere.(TM) www.blackboard.com
About Wimba
Wimba is a company focused solely on education and dedicated to
the principle that people learn more when they are drawn closer
together. Our collaborative software applications for the online
education market enable institutions to bridge technology and
pedagogy by supplementing course management systems with many of
the proven disciplines of in-person learning environments. Wimba's
intuitive solutions enable educators and students to quickly and
easily teach and learn live online, engage in live chat and instant
message exchanges, benefit from oral content being added to
text-based course content, and more. Instructors can also use Wimba
solutions to convert Microsoft Word documents into accessible
course content and to create and administer tests, quizzes, and
exams. Our focus on education and collaboration with educators
fuels our product development.
Wimba. People Teach People. www.wimba.com
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