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Live eLearning and Collaboration Environment Facilitates Interactive Online Meeting and Training on a Global Level
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, (July 26, 2006) —
Elluminate, Inc., a leading provider of live eLearning and web collaboration
solutions for the real-time organization, announced today that the European
Institute for E-Learning (EIfEL) has implemented Elluminate
Live!® to power
its online community, facilitating communication, cooperation, and
collaboration among participants. Elluminate Live! enables the organization
to hold interactive online meetings and training relating to its leadership
role in the ePortfolio movement in Europe and its active involvement in the
promotion of eLearning quality, interoperability, and standards of competency.
In addition, Elluminate is a sponsor of the ePortfolio 2006 conference to
be held October 11-13 in Oxford, England.
EIfEL provides services to its organizational and individual members to support
the design of strategies for learning, the implementation of technologies, and
the development of competencies through a variety of activities. The
organization formed Europortfolio, a European consortium that promotes and
facilitates the use of ePortfolios, personal or community knowledge spaces on
the Internet used to present learning successes, manage content, and continue
professional development, with the potential to encourage discussion and
support teaching and learning on a global level. Additionally, EIfEL is
conducting a major European-wide survey to explore the level of readiness for
ePortfolios and related initiatives. Elluminate Live! enables EIfEL to hold
consortium, study, and other project meetings for international participants,
eliminating travel and allowing those who couldn't attend to access recorded
meeting sessions.
"We were looking for a flexible, dynamic platform that enabled us to exchange
views and ideas in real time with partners in a variety of countries, not just
in Europe but worldwide," said Serge Ravet, EIfEL founder and CEO. "It's been
a great advantage talk in real time over the Internet, brainstorm using the
whiteboard, and share documents and applications for review at a distance.
Elluminate
Live! is very straightforward to use and very useful as an online
working environment."
"Elluminate is excited to partner with the European Institute for E-Learning to
facilitate online collaboration for its many initiatives and activities," said
Maurice Heiblum, President of Elluminate USA, Inc.
"Like the institute, Elluminate is also committed to facilitating lifelong
learning, online communities, technological development, and best practices on
an international basis."
About the European Institute for E-Learning
The European Institute for E-Learning (EIfEL) is an independent, not-for-profit
European professional association whose mission is to support organizations,
communities and individuals in building a knowledge economy and a learning society
through innovative and reflective practice, continuing professional development,
and the use of knowledge, information and learning technologies. Headquartered
in France, EIfEL is leading the Europortfolio consortium and is a founding member
of EFQUEL the European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning. For more information,
visit
www.eife-l.org.
About Elluminate, Inc.
Elluminate, Inc. provides proven, best-in-class solutions for real-time online
learning and collaboration. Elluminate delivers exceptional outcomes that enhance
the learning experience, and increase retention and completion rates with lower
Total Cost of Ownership and higher ROI. Elluminate features high-quality VoIP,
robust interactive functionality for participants and moderators, and unique
No User Left Behind™ technology — regardless of platform or
Internet connection speed. Elluminate has won several prestigious industry awards,
including Network Computing magazine's Editor's Choice for Web Conferencing
software. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., Elluminate is the trusted choice of prominent corporations and
academic institutions such as ADP, the University of Calgary, DeVry University,
Georgia State University, Johns Hopkins University, PA Department of
Education, Sun Microsystems, T-Mobile, and many more.
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