Success of Live eLearning and Web Collaboration Environment Demonstrated by Use for Teaching, Learning, and Continuing Professional Development

Fort Lauderdale, Florida (January 09, 2008) –

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Elluminate, Inc., a leading provider of live eLearning and web-collaboration solutions for the real-time organisation, announced today its continued market momentum in the United Kingdom for primary and secondary schools. UK-based Elluminate customers include Accipio Learning, Bradford LA, The Innovations Unit, Knowsley LEA, and Stockton City Learning Centre (CLC). The company is exhibiting at BETT 2008 in Olympia London on 9-12 January.

Long-time customer Stockton CLC, an Elluminate Center of Excellence, has been using Elluminate Live! for a variety of projects to link children and schools live over the Internet. These include connecting a child in hospital for weekly dialysis with her classroom, linking with schools in Germany and Poland to discuss cultural differences of celebrating Christmas, enabling over 300 from 15 schools to interview Open University scientists about the solar system, and leveraging Advanced Skills Teachers for maths and modern foreign language (MFL) in multiple classrooms.

“Having evaluated and used web conferencing regularly and widely over the last few years, we have always chosen Elluminate for the ease of use and quality of the tool as well as the fantastic support the company provides,” said Stockton CLC Deputy Director Val Brooks. “Our newest project is working with local educational partners to use Elluminate Live! to provide continuing professional development (CPD) for maths teachers in a project funded by the Training and Development Agency.”

The Innovation Unit promotes innovation to improve education and children’s services, drawing on expertise from both public and private sectors. According to Director of Resources & Business Development Gareth Wynne, Elluminate Live! will support communication, learning, and knowledge sharing with the organization’s team of field consultants.

“The use of Elluminate Live! is proving to be a useful component of an integrated on-line and off-line strategy for developing and growing an active community of practice around various topics such as resourcing personalisation,” said Wynne.

“Over the past few years, Elluminate has proven its ability to focus on delivering live eLearning solutions that meet changing academic needs at a strategic level,” said William Florance, Elluminate’s Director of International Sales and Marketing. “The Elluminate Live!virtual learning environment helps support critical UK educational initiatives, including personalised learning and extended schools, links to overseas schools, modern foreign languages, and 14-19 diplomas.”

About Elluminate, Inc.
Elluminate, Inc. provides proven, best-in-class solutions for real-time online learning and collaboration that deliver exceptional outcomes, including enhanced learning experiences, increased retention and completion rates, and higher ROI. Elluminate Live! features high-quality voice over the Internet, robust interactive functionality, and unique No User Left Behind(TM) technology that supports multiple platforms and low-bandwidth connectivity. Elluminate has served more than 200 million web-collaboration minutes to over 3 million teachers and students located in 184 different countries.

Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Elluminate is the trusted choice of prominent academic institutions and corporations, including ADP, Apple Computer, California State University, Duke University, Florida Virtual School, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, K12 Inc., London Knowledge Lab, Los Angeles Unified School District, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Novell, Queen’s University, Royal Veterinary College, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and many more. The winner of several prestigious awards, the company is also one of Deloitte’s 50 Fastest Growing Technology Companies and is positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing, 2007. For more information, visithttp://www.elluminate.com.

Source: Elluminate