-- City College Norwich
-- Coleg Llandrillo Cymru
-- Liverpool John Moores University
-- London College of Communication, University of London
-- University of Winchester
These institutions will leverage Wimba to enhance education across their
campuses and to provide new opportunities for non-traditional learners,
including vocational training and distance learning courses for adults
changing careers or re-entering the work force.
"Wimba provides a platform for those involved with distance or work-based
learning to arrange regular 'virtual' meetings, or for lecturers to
organise drop-in tutorials for all students, independent of their physical
location," said Chris Boon, Senior ILT Support Analyst, at City College
Norwich.
The Wimba Collaboration Suite is an enterprise platform that facilitates
the use of online video, voice, chat, application sharing and white
boarding for distance and blended learning. Many academic institutions rely
on these tools to increase course offerings and deliver content to reach a
diverse population of students including working adults, international
students and niche populations -- such as students specialising in
vocation-centric programs.
"Wimba has enabled Winchester Business School to increase the number of
students taking work-based learning courses and has allowed employers to
provide more staff with higher education opportunities," said Professor
Neil Marriott Dean of Winchester Business School. "The University has a
long tradition of responding to employer needs and the Wimba platform is a
central to our future development."
Many instructors consider personal interaction to be the most valuable
element of teaching and learning. The Wimba Collaboration Suite allows
faculty and students to build relationships by combining interactive
technologies with conventional best practices -- whereby faculty and
students can listen and talk to one other, express emotions, ask questions
and be part of a complete learning community.
"We look forward to supporting each of these institutions as they continue
to push forward with their commitment to improving the learning experience
for their students," said Tommaso Trionfi, CEO of Wimba. "On the
fundamental level, people learn better when they are tied closer together.
The Wimba Collaboration Suite collectively joins students and faculty in a
rich, natural, and functional educational environment that fosters improved
student engagement and therefore increases student performance."
To see a video and learn more about how UK universities are leveraging
Wimba, please visit www.wimba.com/community/spotlight/londoncomp.php.
Products bundled into the Wimba Collaboration Suite include Wimba
Classroom™; Wimba Pronto™, an education-centric instant messaging
application; Wimba Voice™, which facilitates and promotes vocal
instruction; and Wimba Create™. The Wimba Collaboration Suite works
seamlessly within an existing VLE/CMS so instructors never need a new
username or password, and never have to leave their familiar online course
environments.
About Wimba
Wimba® 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 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 web pages,
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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