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Wimba and Take Shape and Share (TSS) Partner to Offer Collaborative E-Learning Solutions to Education Consortium
Leading European Online Community to Offer Wimba Create(TM) to Enhance Content Authoring for Educational Institutions
| Source: Wimba
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - December 5, 2007) - Wimba, the education technology company that
helps people teach people, today announced an exclusive agreement to offer
Wimba Create to Take Shape and Share (TSS), a nationwide educational
content repository for higher education institutions and regional training
centers (ROCs).
Under terms of the agreement, Wimba will offer Wimba Create™ (formerly
Course Genie) to all existing and new TSS members. This new partnership
will provide TSS members with a "best recommended" solution for creating
online learning content based on the Dutch search profile for educational
content. TSS members will gain special pricing to Wimba Create and to Wimba
Collaboration Suite™, the education industry's leading multi-modal
solution for virtual and blended learning and professional development
Wimba Create enables instructors, teachers, and other educational
professionals using Microsoft Word™ to easily generate rich courses with
simple navigation and interactive features such as Wimba Voice™ boards.
Wimba Create is compatible with the majority of major learning management
systems including Blackboard and Moodle. Wimba Create is part of Wimba
Collaboration Suite, the education industry's most comprehensive
collaborative learning software suite for higher education,
primary/secondary schools, and educational publishing.
"The Take Shape and Share European Repository initiative is about
developing and exchanging high quality educational content among
universities and regional training centers," said Albert de Vos, project
manager of the European Repository project. "We are excited about our
partnership with Wimba and the opportunity to offer Wimba Create
exclusively to TSS members as a 'best buy' in the educational field for
authoring and handling educational content."
"Educators are taking advantage of the digital age to help build a new
learning environment. An environment that is transforming traditional
academia, improving engagement and learning," said Thomas Jepsen, vice
president of Wimba Europe. "Wimba Create is a key element of Wimba
Collaboration Suite and provides the ability to create online course
content for the new learning environment. We are proud to be selected as
TSS's exclusive choice of educational content authoring solutions for
e-Learning and look forward to working with TSS members."
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
About Take Shape and Share
The idea of Take Shape and Share originates from the UK based charity
organizations of FENC, the Further Education National Consortium. Over the
past 16 years secondary more than 250 Schools and Colleges for Further
education have built a repository filled with over 30,000 learning hours of
content. The FENC members share this content freely with eachother. In
working together to build the FENC repository the British educators have
set an example to other European Schools and Colleges.
With support of the Dutch government organization Kennisnet two Dutch
Colleges for Further Education, ROC Zeeland and ROC Westerschelde, and FENC
have been preparing the repository for introduction to Schools and Colleges
in other European countries. With funding from the European Commission the
Take Shape and Share community will be extended to several countries in
Europe.
Take Shape and Share, the European Repository. www.tsseurope.eu