NORWALK, Conn., March 14, 2001 (PRIMEZONE) -- Quelsys, a market leader in B2B e-learning, today announced a partnership with The American Society for Engineering Education's continuing education initiative Learnon.org.
Learnon.org is the nation's online resource for continuing engineering education and distance learning, offering a free searchable database of more than 4,500 courses, articles and news items in the ever-changing fields of engineering and technology. Courses are provided by 73 national universities and professional societies and will soon include international university and organization offerings.
Quelsys' SocratEase 3.0, will be available for Engineering and IT professionals as well as university educators to develop, implement and manage their own online courses or supplement existing classroom courses. The hosted solution is suitable for e-learning projects of all sizes, from enterprise-wide, Web-based universities to project-specific training.
"The partnership between Learnon.org and Quelsys is an exciting development," said Bob Black, ASEE Director of Continuing Education. "The e-learning venture will provide the engineering community with a powerful and valuable tool for improving continuing education and training."
The Quelsys/Learnon partnership will provide engineering professionals with a self-serve, fully scalable e-learning platform and empower knowledge experts to share valuable information within their organizations and with other members of the ASEE.
About Quelsys
Quelsys is a privately held e-learning company offering SocratEase, a Web-based corporate training platform that allows managers to quickly create programs to share knowledge with employees, vendors, partners and customers. SocratEase includes a customized site, authoring tool, learning management system and an e-commerce feature that is scalable to e-learning projects of all sizes, from project-specific courses to enterprise-wide universities. Companies using SocratEase as their corporate training platform include Graduate School USDA, Critical Path, FedEx, Lucent, Etera, Compaq, OfficeMax, eBay, Mitel, SEI and Volvo. More information about Quelsys can be found at http://www.Quelsys.com or by calling (203) 852-4200
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CONTACT: Quelsys
Ellen Willen, Director of Marketing
(203) 852.4217
ewillen@quelsys.com