Initiative Expands to include Cost-effective, Sustainable Distance Training for Students, Teachers, and Healthcare Professionals in Developing World.

Pleasanton, California (November 25, 2009) –

News Facts:

* Elluminate, Inc., the leader in web, audio, video and social networking solutions that support 21st century teaching, learning, and collaboration, announced today that its Fire and Ice initiative was awarded iNACOL’s first-ever Outstanding and Most Innovative Online Learning Practice award, which was announced at the organization’s annual Virtual School Symposium held November 15-17 in Austin, Texas.
* The award recognizes an individual, team, or program whose innovative practices or policies have ultimately led to student achievement and serve as a model for other K-12 online learning institutions.
* Fire and Ice connects K-12 schools in the Northern Hemisphere (ice) with those in mainly rural developing countries in the Southern Hemisphere (fire), engaging them in highly collaborative projects with universal themes like climate change and poverty reduction using enabling technology that includes the Elluminate Live! virtual classroom.
* Since its inception in 2006, Fire and Ice has authored highly creative international content and generated unforgettable learning experiences for thousands of students in over 25 countries, including the, Australia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Colombia, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, and the United States.
* The program was also recognized by being named as a 2009 Global Junior Challenge Finalist, 2008 Stockholm Challenge Finalist, 2007 Tech Museum Awards Finalist, and Fast Company Magazine’s Fast 50 in 2007.
* Recent training projects include training healthcare workers in Burkina Faso, West Africa, to combat malaria and providing English as a second language (ESL) training to K-12 students in China and teachers in Columbia.

Source: Elluminate