Elluminate Enables Babson College to Deliver Real-time, Web-based Education

Tuesday April 12, 8:50 am ET
Interactive eLearning Environment Provides Synchronous Content for Remote Students
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2005-- Elluminate, Inc., a leading provider of live eLearning and Web collaboration solutions for the real-time organization, announced today that Babson College has implemented Elluminate Live! Academic Version(TM). The college is using Elluminate Live! to simulate the face-to-face experience of a traditional classroom, adding live interaction to distance education programs and blended online/onsite course offerings, such as Babson's Fast Track MBA Program, the first of its kind in New England.
Elluminate Live! enables instructors to host guest speakers, eliminating costly travel, and students can attend class even when ill or during inclement weather. Other uses for the live eLearning environment at Babson College include virtual office hours for instructors and group spaces for students to use for online collaboration. In addition, the Executive Education arm of the college is using Elluminate Live! to build course modules for sale to corporations around the world.

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