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Utah Education Network Selects Wimba to Enhance Teaching and Learning Across Statewide K-20 Consortium
| Source: Wimba
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - January 9, 2008) - Wimba, the education technology company that
helps people teach people, today announced that the Utah Education Network
(UEN) has selected the Wimba Collaboration Suite™, the education
industry's leading multi-modal solution for virtual and blended learning.
UEN will deploy Wimba's comprehensive solution across its statewide network
of higher education and K-12 institutions to enhance student engagement,
collaboration and increase learning outcomes.
UEN is a consortium of public education partners including the Utah System
of Higher Education, the Utah State Office of Education, local school
districts and the Utah Electronic High School and the state's Library
system. Serving more than 750,000 students, UEN provides Internet and
network connectivity to every public school and college and university
across the state. After careful review of several technology offerings, UEN
selected the Wimba Collaboration Suite for its wide array of rich
interactive tools. Educators across Utah's 10 public colleges and
universities and 41 K-12 school districts will have access to the full
suite to enhance student learning opportunities, expand professional
development and facilitate online, interactive meetings for all its
members.
"We began our search for a web conferencing solution but realized we would
get much more value with a comprehensive solution that could support the
diverse needs of members across our network," said Cory Stokes, Enterprise
Learning Services Manager for Utah Education Network. "The Wimba
Collaboration Suite will enable our community of users to connect and
collaborate in so many different ways, it seems likely that we will
discover new uses for the technology as we become more familiar with all of
the capabilities."
The Wimba Collaboration Suite facilitates the use of online video, voice,
instant messaging, content authoring, application sharing and white
boarding. The Wimba Collaboration Suite works seamlessly within existing
online courses enabling convenient single sign-on for instructors and
students who can also access all of the tools directly in their online
course environments. The Wimba Collaboration Suite integrates with the most
widely used course management systems including the Angel, Blackboard and
Moodle platforms.
"Our relationship with the Utah Education Network demonstrates the power of
Wimba to engage teachers and students across the K-20 spectrum to support
life-long learning," said Tommaso Trionfi, CEO of Wimba. "The Wimba
Collaboration Suite is much more than a virtual classroom, it is a
comprehensive and collaborative learning environment. We are proud to be
selected as UEN's choice for their e-Learning needs."
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