Program Highlights Best Practices, Recognizes Innovative Elluminate Live! Implementations

Fort Lauderdale, Florida (March 11, 2008) –

News Facts:

* Elluminate, Inc., a leading provider of live eLearning and web collaboration for the real-time organization, today announced the 2008 winners of its Center or Excellence (CoE) program, which highlights best practices and showcases organizations that are at the leading edge of adopting synchronous pedagogies for teaching, learning, and related business processes.
* The Elluminate Center of Excellence program recognizes academic institutions and corporations that have implemented Elluminate Live! in creative ways to improve classroom or distance learning programs, corporate training, faculty or staff communication and collaboration, or administrative operations.
* The program also recognizes Elluminate Heroes, those individuals or teams who are responsible for their institutions being accepted into the program. Winners must demonstrate real-world results, such as increased student achievement or retention.

For 2008, those institutions named to the Elluminate CoE and their respective Elluminate Heroes are:

* Argyll Centre – Alison Hancox. Using Elluminate Live! As in integral communication tool to motivate, animate, support, and inform students, staff, and parents with the ultimate goal of student achievement. Full story.
* Broward County Public Schools – Claudia Dilgen. Implementing the latest innovations in instruction technology to recapture students and provide an alternative to face-to-face instruction and a more personal form of online instruction. Full story.
* CCC Confer – Catherine McKenzie, Blaine Morrow, Michelle Taramasco. Providing high-quality web conferencing services for the world’s largest higher education system. Full story.
* Gwinnett County Online Campus – Cheryl Mitchell, Matt Waymack. Individualizing and customizing eLearning to make staff more productive and students more successful with higher completion rates, increased state test scores, and improved attitudes towards learning. Full story.
* Insight Schools, Inc. – Insight Instructional Team. Implementing Elluminate technologies in innovative and creative ways to bring people together to make learning happen for those seeking a more successful high school experience. Full story.
* Northampton Community College – Kelvin Bentley. Enhancing instruction and student services, helping distance learners build strong sense of community, and connecting adjunct faculty. Full story.
* San Jose State University – Debbie Faires. Providing live eLearning support and training for the largest accredited library and information science program in the world, including an innovative peer mentor program that drives technology adoption for students and instructors. Full story.
* Southern Cross University – Stephen Rowe. Reinvigorating teaching and actively engaging students in learning across multiple campuses by providing the same high-quality education and enabling interaction for students, regardless of location. Full story.
* University of Alberta – Online Program Support Group. Providing a mechanism to increase both social and teaching presence as a catalyst for building community and connecting students, instructors, researchers, and staff in collaborative and engaging academic endeavors. Full story.
* University of Illinois Springfield – Sharon McCurdy Smith. Bridging together online and on-campus initiatives to save time and resources while increasing synergy in teaching methodology, staff practices, and student views to effect powerful cultural change. Full story.
* University of Pittsburgh Center for Injury Research & Control – Hank Weiss. Increasingly pushing the envelope to adapt real-time web collaboration technology for research, information dissemination, and training for health professionals on injuries and injury control issues. Full story.

Source: Elluminate