London School of Economics Adds Wimba Solutions

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - August 2, 2007) - Wimba, the education technology company that helps people teach people, today announced that the London School of Economics (LSE) has significantly expanded its use of Wimba technologies to further enhance the collaborative nature of the school's course management system/virtual learning environment (CMS/VLE) -- Moodle.

LSE, an ongoing user of Wimba Voice Tools, will now implement Wimba Live Classroom 5.0, thereby utilizing the company's full suite of synchronous and asynchronous education tools -- the 'Wimba Collaboration Suite.' LSE's recently initiated two-year transition to the Moodle open source platform highlights Wimba's versatility and seamless integration with all leading CMS/VLEs.

"Our past success with Wimba has helped give us the confidence to move into this new era," said Steve Ryan, director of the LSE Centre for Learning Technology. "We are looking forward to exploring the potential of the Live Classroom tools."

LSE will implement Wimba Live Classroom 5.0, the virtual classroom that delivers supporting audio, video, application sharing, content display and more. Live Classroom enables instructors to add vital interaction to courses, including live online classes, office hours, guest lectures, webcasts, and meetings that humanize and enrich the online learning experience for students.

"LSE continues to show its leadership in providing highly collaborative online learning opportunities for students that are also highly flexible and simple to facilitate for instructors," said Wimba CEO Tommaso Trionfi. "We look forward to delivering a new level of collaboration on behalf of this esteemed institution."

Live Classroom will be complemented at LSE with the continued use of Wimba Voice Tools and broader utilization of the Wimba Collaboration Suite in the future.

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.

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About LSE

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a world class centre for its concentration of teaching and research across the full range of the social, political and economic sciences. Founded in 1895 by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, LSE has an outstanding reputation for academic excellence. LSE is an unusual university. Few university institutions in the world are as international. The study of social, economic and political problems covers not only the UK and European Union, but also countries of every continent. From its foundation LSE has aimed to be a laboratory of the social sciences, a place where ideas are developed, analysed, evaluated and disseminated around the globe.

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