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Wimba Is IDEAL for New Mexico!
IDEAL-NM Adopts Wimba Collaboration Suite(TM) to Enhance Education Statewide
| Source: Wimba, Inc.
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - November 11, 2008) - Wimba®, Inc., the education technology
company that helps people teach people, today announced that New Mexico's
Innovative Digital Education and Learning program (IDEAL-NM) has selected
the Wimba Collaboration Suite™, the education industry's leading
multi-modal solution for virtual and blended learning, to pilot as its
statewide collaborative learning platform. IDEAL-NM will deploy Wimba's
comprehensive solution across its statewide network of higher education and
K-12 institutions, which includes 89 districts and 22 college campuses, to
enhance student engagement and collaboration and increase learning
outcomes.
New Mexico was the first state in the nation to create a statewide
eLearning system that, from its inception, encompasses all aspects of
learning from traditional public and higher education environments to
teacher professional development, continuing education and workforce
education. This partnership with Wimba will enable
IDEAL-NM to offer Wimba's Collaboration Suite across its network of
institutions, facilitating the use of online video, voice, instant
messaging, content authoring, application sharing and white boarding
throughout the state.
"With a scope as large as ours, communication and collaboration are
crucial," said Donna Harrington, eLearning Technology Director for
IDEAL-NM. "The Wimba Collaboration Suite will enable us to bring our
statewide community of users together online, so that we can collaborate,
brainstorm, develop, and implement best practices that will help our
students to succeed."
The Wimba Collaboration Suite of products, which includes -- the Wimba
Classroom™ virtual learning environment, the Wimba Pronto™ instant
messenger, the Wimba Voice™ audio solution, and the Wimba Create™
content authoring tool -- enables institutions to bridge the gap between
technology and pedagogy by supplementing course management systems with the
proven disciplines of in-person learning environments. Designed to work
seamlessly within the existing Blackboard online course management system
selected by the State of New Mexico, the Wimba Collaboration Suite enables
convenient single sign-on and access to Wimba tools directly from the
online course environments with which teachers and students are already
familiar.
"This partnership with IDEAL-NM is a testament to Wimba's power to engage
students and instructors in lifelong learning," said Tommaso Trionfi, CEO
of Wimba. "We are very proud of the comprehensive and collaborative
learning environments that the Wimba Collaboration Suite fosters, and we
look forward to working closely with IDEAL-NM to bring students and faculty
together for learning."
About Wimba
Wimba®, Inc. is a leading provider of collaborative learning software
applications and services to the education industry. Our collaborative
software applications for the online and blended education market enable
institutions to bridge technology and pedagogy by supplementing learning
management systems with many of the proven disciplines of in-person
learning environments. Wimba's intuitive solutions enable teachers 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 content, and more. Teachers can also use Wimba solutions to
easily convert Microsoft Word documents into online content and to create
and administer tests, quizzes, and exams. Our focus on education and
collaboration with educators fuels our product development. For more
information, please visit www.wimba.com or send an email to info@wimba.com.
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